News on International Labour Standards

ILO/ITUC/PERC Workshop on Reinforcing trade union policies in OSH prevention

Participants from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine took part in the fifth NIS OSH Network meeting in Armenia organized together with the ILO Moscow and financial support from the LO/TCO.

Updated Skills Development Programme for Domestic Workers – including Migrant Domestic Workers – Launched in Argentina

The Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) provided support to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina to review its Vocational Training Program for domestic workers and to update...

Collective bargaining and collaboration at enterprise level in a pluralism context – workshop in Minsk

On 13-14 May Minsk hosted a workshop on Collective bargaining and collaboration at enterprise level in a pluralism context, organized by the ILO with support of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.

Forthcoming

ILO to publish the World Employment and Social Outlook 2015

Government initiates dialogue on the ratification of convention 155- Occupational safety and health and the working environment

In Pakistan, Safe Day celebrations on 28th April 2015 were characterised by a series of events across the country including the 10th OSH awards organised by the Employers Federation of Pakistan (EFP) in collaboration with the Pakistan Workers...

Tanzania’s President, H.E. Jakaya Kikwete addresses workers at May day celebrations: Acknowledges youth unemployment challenge

Thousands of workers and the public at large in Tanzania joined other workers in the world to commemorate the International Workers Day this year. The event was marked in Mwanza with the Swahili theme “Mfanyakazi Jiandikishe, Kura yako ina thamani...

International experts familiarize themselves with Uzbekistan’s trade union movement

On April 24, Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent hosted an international conference focusing on trade unions’ role in ensuring citizens’ guarantees to decent work and the republic’s experience.

Domestic workers

“No One Should Work This Way” – FCC exhibition of Steve McCurry photos to highlight domestic worker abuse

Photos of abused domestic workers, taken by the renowned photographer Steve McCurry, will be exhibited at the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, during the month of May.

Labour inspection

Technology lightens the load for factory inspector

‘LISA’ App on a tablet makes the job of a labour inspector in Colombo easier and helps monitor cases and ensure compliance with labour laws.

Safety and Health

Turkey ratifies the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167) and the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No....

Turkey is the thirtieth and twenty-seventh ILO member State to have ratified, respectively, Convention No. 176 and Convention No.167, which aim to improve the safety and health of millions of mine and construction workers worldwide.

Baluchistan province reaches consensus on labor legislation and labor policy

The Government of Baluchistan re-affirmed its commitment towards full compliance to International Labour Standards ratified by Pakistan during a 3 day tripartite consultation on provincial labour legislation and labour policy held at Karachi from...

Law on Domestic Work in Paraguay Approved

The Paraguayan Parliament approved a law on Domestic Work, equating domestic workers’ rights with all wage-workers. The law is based on the ILO Convention 189, which was earlier ratified by Paraguay in May 2013 and required harmonization with the...

Tripartite Meeting of Experts

Tripartite Meeting of Experts recommends revisions to the Annexes to Convention No. 185 to keep them in line with modern identity document...

International Women’s Day. ILO says progress on gender equality at work remains inadequate. Challenges include a “motherhood pay gap”

Two decades after the world’s largest gathering of women adopted a far-reaching agenda for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment, women are only marginally better off with respect to equality at work.

Blog article

Exploitation vs. forced labour -- What can we learn from international labour standards?

By Tim De Meyer, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

Women trade union leaders from Central Asia discuss promotion of equal opportunities

From February 23 to 27 Moldova’s capital Chisinau hosted a seminar entitled “Decent labour rights of women and promotion of equal opportunities: best practices and prospects.”

First comments of ILO supervisory body on effective implementation of the MLC

For the first time this year, the CEACR has reviewed a number of first reports from ILO member States that have ratified the MLC and has formulated comments on the application of the MLC by these member States.

Safety and Health in Construction

Deposit by the Plurinational State of Bolivia of the instrument of ratification for the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988...

On 10 February 2015, the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification for the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167).

International labour standards

ILO publishes the annual report on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (2015)

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.

4 to 6 February

ILO to hold an international Tripartite Meeting of Experts to advise on recognition of Seafarers’ Identity Documents and border security...

From 4 to 6 February 2015, the ILO Governing Body has convened an international tripartite meeting of maritime and technical experts on border control to advise on the national implementation of the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention...