News on International Labour Standards

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Slovenia ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

Slovenia is the 72nd member State to have ratified this landmark Convention.

Speech

Impacts of International Labour Standards from ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998) to the national business...

Speech by Dr Chang-Hee Lee, Director of the ILO Country Office for Viet Nam, at the Viet Nam Leadership Summit organized in HCMC on 8 April 2016

Flyer presenting the course "International Labour Standards and Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding workers’ rights in the...

This five-day course aims to strengthen the capacity of participants to understand the principles of international labour standards as they relate to company operations (including due diligence related to labour rights) and how those principles can...

Flyer presenting the course "International Labour Standards and Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding workers’ rights in the...

This five-day course seeks to foster a better understanding of the principles of the international labour standards as they relate to company operations and the implications for CSR policies and practices geared towards decent work and sustainable...

Seafarers’ Identity Documents

Security, seafarers’ shore leave and ILO Convention 185

From 10 to 12 February, the Ad Hoc Tripartite Maritime Committee, established to propose amendments to the Seafarer’s Identity Documents Convention, 2003 (No. 185), met to consider the difficulties that security requirements have placed on...

Occupational Safety and Health

Thailand ratifies the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187)

Convention No. 187 is one of the ILO’s essential instruments in safety and health at the workplace

ILO Social Security Minimum Standards Convention No. 102

Ukraine ratifies the key Social Security Convention of the ILO

The ratification will help Ukraine to safeguard the minimum standards of social security in the current social and economic situation and ensure that its social security system rests on sound principles recognized at the international level.

Forced labour

Mauritania becomes the second African country to commit to ending modern slavery

The country is among the first to formally implement the 2014 Protocol to the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention No.29.

International labour standards training delivered to judges, lawyers and advocates in Fiji

The International Training Centre of the ILO has delivered training sessions to legal professionals on International Labour Standards in Suva this week. The training sessions were delivered to lawyers and advocates, as well as members of the...

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

New Zealand ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

New Zealand is the 71st member State to have ratified this landmark Convention.

ILO and IZA Conference

ILO Director-General says labour market reforms must have positive impact on social conditions

Opening remarks by Guy Ryder at ILO/IZA conference on Assessing the Effects of Labour Market Reforms – A Global Perspective, in Geneva on 10-11 March 2016.

Russia Ratifies ILO’s Part-Time Work Convention Ratified

On 2 March, President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law “On Ratification of the Convention Concerning Part-Time Work (ILO Convention № 175).” The State Duma passed the Federal Law on February 19, 2016, and it was approved by the Federation...

Public-Private partnerships

ILO public-private partnerships and employment: Introduction

Creating employment – essential for achieving the goals of decent work – is one of the most formidable challenges that the ILO will have to ace in the near future. Indeed, there will be a need for some 470 million new jobs over the next 15 years....

International labour standards

ILO publishes the annual report on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, whose work constitutes the cornerstone of the ILO's supervisory system on international labour standards, has just published its annual report.

Employment Policy

Sri Lanka ratifies the Employment Policy Convention No. 122

Sri Lanka is the 110th ILO member State to have ratified this priority Convention

Interview with Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of ITUC

What are the challenges and opportunities for Unions in 2016?

The trade union movement faces significant challenges in 2016, in particular the respect of workers’ rights in many countries. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) talks about the challenges and...

The Programme of Cooperation between Russia and the International Labour Organization May be Extended

25 January 2016 – During their meeting in the city of Ufa today, the Russian Minister of Labour Maxim Topilin and ILO Director-General Guy Ryder discussed the continued cooperation between the Russian Federation and the ILO on the basis of the...

Minister Maxim Topilin Meets Director General of the International Labour Organization Guy Ryder

25 January 2016 – As part of the programme of the first meeting of Ministers of Labour and Employment of the BRICS countries, which opened today in the city of Ufa, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin met...

Press release: Philippine Technical Working Group on Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Kasambahay (Domestic Workers) Day to highlight gains of landmark law for domestic workers

On the third anniversary of the much heralded Kasambahay (Domestic Workers) Law, groups instrumental to its passage will gather once again to review the gains of the law for domestic workers.

ILO Forced Labour Convention

United Kingdom joins renewed fight to end forced labour

The UK has ratified the 2014 Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, adding its support to Norway and Niger in the campaign to end modern slavery.