News on International Labour Standards

Labour inspection

ILO conducts a tripartite workshop in Syria focused on labour inspection

The ILO training-of-trainers workshop in Damascus focused on labour inspection, gender equality, child labour as well as occupational safety and health.

Fishing Convention - C188

Thailand ratifies Work in Fishing Convention

Thailand has committed itself to ensuring acceptable living and working conditions for fishers on board ships by ratifying the Work in Fishing Convention. It has become the first country in Asia to do so, which signals to other countries in the...

International Labour Standards

Viet Nam ratifies ILO Employment Service Convention, ready to make labour market effective

An ILO study with data from the General Statistics Office found that around 40 per cent of employed young people had found their jobs by asking friends and family.

Mongolia policy brief: Freedom of association and collective bargaining in the informal economy in Mongolia

The brief contains the analysis of the legal regulatory framework for freedom of association and collective bargaining in the informal economy in Mongolia.

Maritime Labour Convention

Maritime Centenary Challenge: reaching 100 ratifications of the MLC, 2006

EU-Asia connectivity - Enhancing labour standards through trade

At a public hearing on EU-Asia connectivity in the European Parliament, the ILO stressed the importance of promoting labour standards compliance through trade and recalled the long-term benefits of labour provisions in trade agreements.

Forced labour

Russian Federation’s renewed commitment to combat forced labour

The Russian Federation has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, becoming the 28th ILO Member State to do so.

Work in Fishing Convention

UK joins efforts to ensure decent work in the fishing sector

The United Kingdom has ratified the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), becoming the 13th ILO Member State to do so.

Work in Fishing Convention

The United Kingdom joins the global efforts to ensure decent work in the fishing sector

The United Kingdom ratifies the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (n°188)

Sharing lessons learnt in promoting evidence-based wages fixing and collective bargaining in the garment sector

The Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC) came to an end in March 2019, and contributed to promoting evidence-based minimum wage fixing and wage policy development and interest-based collective bargaining in the garment sector in...

Promoting Social Dialogue and Harmonious Industrial Relations in Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Industry

SDIR Project update: December 2018

ILO100

Labour Minister reaffirms Viet Nam’s support for ILO Centenary year, agrees to extend cooperation agenda

The ILO in Viet Nam plans to organize the Centenary celebration in May 2019 on the occasion of Ho Chi Minh’s birthday and a high-level Future of Work conference in November 2019.

Bali declaration - Policy briefs

Fundamental principles and rights at work: Towards commitment and action (2018 update)

This series of Policy Briefs aim to focus attention on the priorities for policies and actions at national level and by the ILO as defined in the Bali Declaration adopted at the 16th Asia and Pacific Regional Meeting of the ILO. The Declaration...

Garment sector stakeholders’ firm on ensuring compliance with labour standards

GSSF members concurred that policy and advocacy on formulating a wage policy framework is a key step towards minimum wage reforms.

Migrant workers

On International Migrants Day, a Sea Change for Thai Fishing?

By Jason Judd, Chief Technical Advisor for the International Labour Organization (ILO)

ILO Director-General on First Ever Visit to Uzbekistan

Mr. Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), is on his first ever visit to Uzbekistan.

Tripartite Consultation

Samoa ratifies the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144)

How should minimum wages be determined?

A technical session on Minimum Wage determination was organised as part of a knowledge sharing initiative by the BMZ funded project of the ILO ‘Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains: A Programme of Action for Asia and the Garment Sector’ (LSGSC).

Labour migration

New ILO figures show 164 million people are migrant workers

Some countries of origin are losing the most productive part of their workforce, the study says.

Support to trading partners including GSP+ beneficiary countries to effectively implement ILS and comply with reporting obligations...

he project will Support and collaborate with ILO’s tripartite constituents and other relevant stakeholders in application of ILO C-100 (Equal Remuneration Convention - 1951) and ILO Convention C-111 (Discrimination- Employment and Occupations -...