ITC Training Module Part 3
This module focuses on labour legislation as a key function of labour administration relating to labour protection. It underlines the importance of labour legislation for promoting a balanced economic and social development. More specifically, this module looks at current challenges of labour legislation, makes reference to the relevant principles and rights at work – with the respective conventions - and mentions some good practices in labour legislation.
Labour legislation regulates both individual employment relationship and collective labour relations; it protects basic freedoms and rights at work; ensures minimum labour standards leaving the rest for social partners to define through collective bargaining and defines the contractual status (individual and collective) of employers and workers, including their mutual rights and responsibilities as well as dispute resolution machinery.
Convention No.150 on labour administration lays down the responsibility of labour administration with regards to national labour policy, specifying in particular that competent bodies within the system of labour administration shall be the instrument for preparation and implementation of labour policy. This relates also to labour legislation.
Article 6 paragraph 1 of the convention provides that the competent bodies within the system of labour administration will prepare and implement laws. ILO Recommendation No 158 on Labour Administration refers to labour laws as the first area in which the functions of a system of labour administration should be exercised
Convention No.150 on labour administration lays down the responsibility of labour administration with regards to national labour policy, specifying in particular that competent bodies within the system of labour administration shall be the instrument for preparation and implementation of labour policy. This relates also to labour legislation.
Article 6 paragraph 1 of the convention provides that the competent bodies within the system of labour administration will prepare and implement laws. ILO Recommendation No 158 on Labour Administration refers to labour laws as the first area in which the functions of a system of labour administration should be exercised