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The ILO is the international organization responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labour standards. It is the only 'tripartite' United Nations agency that brings together representatives of governments, employers and workers to jointly shape policies and programmes promoting Decent Work for all. This unique arrangement gives the ILO an edge in incorporating 'real world' knowledge about employment and work.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat the people who are employed by it throughout the world is known as the International Labour Office. The organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969.[1]
Contents
1 Membership and organization 2 Governing Body 3 International Labour Conference 4 International Labour Code 5 Conventions
5.1 Adoption 5.2 Ratification 5.3 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 5.4 Recommendations 6.1 Establishment 6.2 Trade unions 6.3 US membership
6 History
8 Child labour
9 Forced labour 10 Minimum wage law 11 HIV/AIDS 12 Indigenous peoples 13 Migrant workers 14 Domestic workers 15 Labour statistics 16 Connections within the UN 17 Most Recent ILO Committee Reports and Recommendations 18 See also 19 Notes 20 References 21 External links
Each member state is represented at the conference by four people: two government delegates, an employer delegate and a worker delegate. All of them have individual voting rights, and all votes are equal, regardless of the population of the delegate's member state. The employer and worker delegates are normally chosen in agreement with the "most representative" national organizations of employers and workers. Usually, the workers' delegates coordinate their voting, as do the employers' delegates.[citation needed]
[edit] Conventions
For a list, see Category:International Labour Organization conventions Through July 2011, the ILO has adopted 189 conventions . [edit] Adoption Adoption of a convention by the International Labour Conference allows governments to ratify it, and the convention then becomes a treaty in international law when a specified number of governments have done so. But all adopted ILO conventions are considered international labour standards regardless of how many governments have ratified them. [edit] Ratification The coming into force of a convention results in a legal obligation to apply its provisions by the nations that have ratified it. Ratification of a convention is voluntary. Conventions that have not been ratified by member states have the same legal force as do recommendations. Governments are required to submit reports detailing their compliance with the obligations of the conventions they have ratified. Every year the International Labour Conference's Committee on the Application of Standards examines a number of alleged breaches of international labour standards. [edit] 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work In 1998, the 86th International Labour Conference adopted the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. This declaration identified four "principles" as "core" or "fundamental", asserting that all ILO member States on the basis of existing obligations as members in the Organization have an obligation to work towards fully respecting the principles embodied in the relevant (ratifiable) ILO Conventions. The fundamental rights concern freedom of association and collective bargaining, discrimination, forced labour, and child labour. The ILO Conventions which embody the fundamental principles have now been ratified by most member states.[5]
[edit] Recommendations
Recommendations do not have the binding force of conventions and are not subject to ratification. Recommendations may be adopted at the same time as conventions to supplement the latter with additional or more detailed provisions. In other cases recommendations may be
adopted separately and may address issues not covered by, or be unrelated to, any particular convention.[citation needed]
[edit] History
E. H. Greenwood, U.S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D.C., OctoberNovember 1919, in front of the Pan American Building.
[edit] Establishment
The ILO was established as an agency of the League of Nations following the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. VanDaele, (2005) argues that in 1919 a pioneering generation of scholars, social policy experts, and politicians designed an unprecedented international organizational framework for labour politics. The founding fathers of the ILO had made great strides in social thought and action before 1919. The core members all knew one another from earlier private professional and ideological networks, in which they exchanged knowledge, experiences, and ideas on social policy. Prewar 'epistemic communities,' such as the International Association for Labour Legislation (IALL), founded in 1900, and political networks, such as the Socialist Second International, were a decisive factor in the institutionalization of international labour politics. In the postWorld War I euphoria, the idea of a 'makeable society' was an important catalyst behind the social engineering of the ILO architects. As a new discipline, international labour law became a useful instrument for putting social reforms into practice. The utopian ideals of the founding fathers social justice and the right to decent work were changed by diplomatic and political compromises made at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing the ILO's balance between idealism and pragmatism.[6]
subcommittee of the Reconstruction Commission, recommended in its July 1918 Final Report that "industrial councils" be established throughout the world.[8] The British Labour Party had issued its own reconstruction programme in the document titled Labour and the New Social Order.[9] In February 1918, the third Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist Conference (representing delegates from Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy) issued its report, advocating an international labour rights body, an end to secret diplomacy, and other goals.[10] And in December 1918, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) issued its own distinctively apolitical report, which called for the achievement of numerous incremental improvements via the collective bargaining process.[11] As the war drew to a close, two competing visions for the post-war world emerged. The first was offered by the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), which called for a meeting in Bern in July 1919. The Bern meeting would consider both the future of the IFTU and the various proposals which had been made in the previous few years. The IFTU also proposed including delegates from the Central Powers as equals. Samuel Gompers, president of the AFL, boycotted the meeting, wanting the Central Powers delegates in a subservient role as an admission of guilt for their countries' role in the bringing about war. Instead, Gompers favoured a meeting in Paris which would only consider President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points as a platform. Despite the American boycott, the Bern meeting went ahead as scheduled. In its final report, the Bern Conference demanded an end to wage labour and the establishment of socialism. If these ends could not be immediately achieved, then an international body attached to the League of Nations should enact and enforce legislation to protect workers and trade unions.[11] Meanwhile, the Paris Peace Conference sought to dampen public support for communism. Subsequently, the Allied Powers agreed that clauses should be inserted into the emerging peace treaty protecting labour unions and workers' rights, and that an international labour body be established to help guide international labour relations in the future. The advisory Commission on International Labour Legislation was established by the Peace Conference to draft these proposals. The Commission met for the first time on 1 February 1919, and Gompers was elected chairman.[11] Two competing proposals for an international body emerged during the Commission's meetings. The British proposed establishing an international parliament to enact labour laws which each member of the League would be required to implement. Each nation would have two delegates to the parliament, one each from labour and management.[citation needed] An international labour office would collect statistics on labour issues and enforce the new international laws. Philosophically opposed to the concept of an international parliament and convinced that international standards would lower the few protections achieved in the United States, Gompers proposed that the international labour body be authorized only to make recommendations, and that enforcement be left up to the League of Nations. Despite vigorous opposition from the British, the American proposal was adopted.[11] Gompers also set the agenda for the draft charter protecting workers' rights. The Americans made 10 proposals. Three were adopted without change: That labour should not be treated as a commodity; that all workers had the right to a wage sufficient to live on; and that women should receive equal pay for equal work. A proposal protecting the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association was amended to include only freedom of association. A proposed ban on the international shipment of goods made by children under the age of 16 was amended to ban goods made by children under the age of 14. A proposal to require an eight-hour work day was amended to require the eight-hour work day or the 40-hour work week (an exception was made for countries where productivity was low). Four other American proposals were rejected.
Meanwhile, international delegates proposed three additional clauses, which were adopted: One or more days for weekly rest; equality of laws for foreign workers; and regular and frequent inspection of factory conditions.[11] The Commission issued its final report on 4 March 1919, and the Peace Conference adopted it without amendment on 11 April. The report became Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles.[11] The first annual conference (referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union (building) in Washington, D.C.[12] and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.[13] The prominent French socialist Albert Thomas became its first Director General. The ILO became the first specialized agency of the United Nations system after the demise of the League in 1946.[14] Its constitution, as amended, includes the Declaration of Philadelphia (1944) on the aims and purposes of the organization. As of April 2009[update], the current director-general is Juan Somavia (since 1999).
[edit] US membership
At the time of establishment, the US government was not a member of ILO, as the US Senate rejected the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the US could not join any of its agencies. Following the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the US presidency, the new administration made renewed efforts to join the ILO even without League membership. On 19 June 1934, the US Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing the President to join ILO without joining the League of Nations as a whole. On 22 June 1934, the ILO adopted a resolution inviting the US government to join the organization. On 20 August 1934, the US government responded positively and took its seat at the ILO.
is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and interferes with their schooling by: depriving them of the opportunity to attend school; obliging them to leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
In its most extreme forms, child labour involves children being enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to serious hazards and illnesses and/or left to fend for themselves on the streets
of large cities often at a very early age. Whether or not particular forms of "work" can be called "child labour" depends on the child's age, the type and hours of work performed, the conditions under which it is performed and the objectives pursued by individual countries. The answer varies from country to country, as well as among sectors within countries. Not all work done by children should be classified as child labour that is to be targeted for elimination. Childrens or adolescents participation in work that does not affect their health and personal development or interfere with their schooling, is generally regarded as being something positive. This includes activities such as helping their parents around the home, assisting in a family business or earning pocket money outside school hours and during school holidays. These kinds of activities contribute to childrens development and to the welfare of their families; they provide them with skills and experience, and help to prepare them to be productive members of society during their adult life.
INDUS aims to eliminate child labour in these 5 states among 10 hazardous sectors.[20]
Hand-rolled beedi cigarettes Brassware Leather, rubber, and plastic footwear Hand-blown glass bangles Hand-made locks Hand-broken quarried stones Hand-spun/hand-loomed silk thread, yarn and fabric Fireworks Hand-dipped matches Handmade bricks Strengthening public education
INDUS Project Strategies To ensure that children withdrawn from the hazardous sectors do not relapse, Transitional Education Centres (TEC) were established to ease the mainstreaming of children back into schools within 24 months. Education up to Class VI and VII were provided by the TECs. Primary health care including health check-ups, school meals and stationaries were all funded by the project. Each child was paid a stipend of Rs. 100 per month, as long as they attained a minimum attendance rate of 80%.[20] Providing vocational training Vocational centres were established to help equip children with necessary life skills which make decent incomes in the future viable. In addition to focusing on knowledge, skills and computer literacy, the centres also carried out life enrichment education, which includes basic workers rights and the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Travelling allowances of up to a maximum of Rs.300 per month and tools kits were sponsored.[20]
In an effort to compensate families loss in income due to their children enrolling into the education system, training agencies that specialize in micro-enterprise development and skill training were established. These agencies assisted families in selecting an appropriate microenterprise or to improve an existing skill.[20] Results of INDUS Project The proportion of children aged 1014 who are economically active fell from 8.7% in 2001 to 6.6% in 2006, as shown in Table 1. 2001 Population Census 132367710 120795938 253163648 2006 Population Projection and estimates 125485000 116274000 241759000 % of children to % of children to population in 2001 population in 2006
Table 1: Magnitude of child labour in India[21] Primary school net enrolment rate between years 2005-2009 was 83%, a more than threefold increase from the 1950s level of 26%.[22] Delays in the Transitional Education Centres (TEC) resulted in mainstreamed children being released to public schools at a sluggish rate. Having completed the education provided by TEC, children were not transferred to public schools promptly.[23] Progress in the income generation segment has been relatively slow. Financial benefits only reached pockets of a few targeted mothers in Tamil Nadu by mid 2007.[23]
Criticisms of Project
The Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL) has spearheaded the ILOs work in this field since early 2002. The programme is designed to: Raise global awareness and understanding of modern forced labour Assist governments in developing and implementing new laws, policies and action plans Develop and disseminate guidance and training materials on key aspects of forced labour and trafficking Implement innovative programmes that combine policy development, capacity building of law enforcement and labour market institutions, and targeted, field-based projects of direct support for both prevention of forced labour and identification and rehabilitation of its victims.
[edit] HIV/AIDS
Under the name ILOAIDS, the ILO created the Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work as a document providing principles for "policy development and practical guidelines for programmes at enterprise, community, and national levels." Including:[25]
prevention of HIV management and mitigation of the impact of AIDS on the world of work care and support of workers infected and affected by HIV/AIDS elimination of stigma and discrimination on the basis of real or perceived HIV status.
indicators on labour participation rates, employment, unemployment, educational attainment, labour cost, and economic performance. Many of these indicators have been prepared by other organizations. For example, the Division of International Labour Comparisons of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics prepares the hourly compensation in manufacturing indicator.[28]
The complainants allege that, in a decision concerning anti-union dismissals in the context of a labour dispute, the Supreme Court of the Philippines held that workers who shaved or cropped their hair engaged in an unprotected illegal strike, and thus upheld the dismissal of 29 trade union officers and allowed dismissal of 61 trade union members, in violation of the principles of freedom of association. The issue has been protested on wildly in the Philippines.[31] Military threat and harassment against IWSWU officers and their families; interference by the armed forces of the Philippines in trade union affairs by dissuading trade union members to engage in collective bargaining; and vilification campaign against IWSWU members and families to the detriment of their safety and security
Centre William Rappard, first permanent home of the ILO on the north bank of Lake Geneva Decent work agenda of the ILO United Nations Global Compact, 19992000, encouraging businesses to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies International Labour Organization Conventions Labour movement Ohlin Report, providing the basis for the Treaty of Rome on the common market in 1957 and the creation of the European Economic Community in 1958 Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work, 2008 Social clause, the integration of seven core ILO labour rights conventions into trade agreements
1. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1969". Nobelprize.org. http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1969/labourhistory.html. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
[edit] Notes
2. ^ ILO Constitution Article 3 3. ^ Cornell.edu - archived 4. ^ Article 7, ILO Constitution 5. ^ See the list of ratifications at Ilo.org 6. ^ VanDaele, (2005) 7. ^ Reiner Tosstorff, "The International Trade-Union Movement and the Founding of the International
Labour Organization," International Review of Social History 2005 50(3): 399433
8. ^ Haimson, Leopold H. and Sapelli, Giulio. Strikes, Social Conflict, and the First World War: An
International Perspective. Milan: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 1992. ISBN 88-07-99047-4
9. ^ Shapiro, Stanley. "The Passage of Power: Labor and the New Social Order." Proceedings of the
American Philosophical Society. 120:6 (29 December 1976).
10. ^ Ayusawa, Iwao Frederick. International Labor Legislation. Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2005. ISBN
1-58477-461-4
11. ^ a b c d e f Foner, Philip S. History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. 7: Labor and World
War I, 19141918. New York: International Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0-7178-0638-3
12. ^ http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/P/09616/09616(1919-1).pdf 13. ^ Ilo.org 14. ^ "Photo Gallery". ILO. 2011. http://www.ilo.org/dyn/media/mediasearch.fiche?p_id=16023&p_lang=en.
Retrieved 30 May 2011.
15. ^ International Training Centre website 16. ^ LLM Guide (IP LLM) University of Torino, Faculty of Law 17. ^ ILO.org 18. ^ Von Braun, Joachim (1995). Von Braun. ed. Employment for poverty reduction and food security. "IFPRI
Occasional Papers". Intl Food Policy Res Inst. p. 35. ISBN 9780896293328. http://books.google.ie/books? id=7q1ZUsatasIC&pg=PA35&dq= %22perpetuates+poverty+because+it+prevents+children+from+acquiring+the+skills+and+education
19. ^ International Labour Office. (2010). Important Achievements on the road to 2016. In I. L. Office,
Accelerating Action Against Child Labour (p. 23). Geneva: ILO Publications.
20. ^ a b c d International Labour Organization. (2006). Operational Guidelines INDUS Project. New Delhi:
India Habitat Centre.
21. ^ National Commission for Protection of Child Rights. (2008). Magnitude of Child Labor in India. New
Delhi: NCPR.
22. ^ Dowling, J. M., & Valenzuela, M. R. (2010). Human Resource Development: A Focus on Education and
Health. In J. M. Dowling, & M. R. Valenzuela, Economic Development in Asia (p. 274). Singapore: Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd.
23. ^ a b International Labour Organization. (2007). Evaluation: Preventing and eliminatiing child labor in
identified hazardous sectors in India. Geneva: ILO Publications.
24. ^ Daniel Roger Maul, "The International Labour Organization and the Struggle against Forced Labour
from 1919 to the Present," Labor History 2007 48(4): 477500
25. ^ "The ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work". ILOAIDS.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/publ/code.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
26. ^ UNHCHR.ch 27. ^ ILO.org 28. ^ International Labor Organization, KILM 17. Hourly compensation costs 29. ^ http://www.undg.org/index.cfm?P=13p 30. ^ http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/libsynd/getRepsCtryStatus.cfm?
hdroff=1&ctry=0840&Lang=EN&status=F
31. ^ http://www.apl.org.ph/?p=1215
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This article is about the general concept of providing welfare. For other uses, see Social Security (disambiguation). Social security is primarily a social insurance program providing social protection or protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others. Social security may refer to:
social insurance, where people receive benefits or services in recognition of contributions to an insurance program. These services typically include provision for retirement pensions, disability insurance, survivor benefits and unemployment insurance.
income maintenancemainly the distribution of cash in the event of interruption of employment, including retirement, disability and unemployment services provided by administrations responsible for social security. In different countries this may include medical care, aspects of social work and even industrial relations. More rarely, the term is also used to refer to basic security, a term roughly equivalent to access to basic necessitiesthings such as food, clothing, housing, education, money, and medical care.
The right to social security is recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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Social insurance, considered above Means-tested benefits. This is financial assistance provided for those who are unable to cover basic needs, such as food, clothing and housing, due to poverty or lack of income because of unemployment, sickness, disability, or caring for children. While assistance is often in the form of financial payments, those eligible for social welfare can usually access health and educational services free of charge. The amount of support is enough to cover basic needs and eligibility is often subject to a comprehensive and complex assessment of an applicant's social and financial situation. See also, Income Support. Non-contributory benefits. Several countries have special schemes, administered with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain categories of need - for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities and very old people. Discretionary benefits. Some schemes are based on the discretion of an official, such as a social worker. Universal or categorical benefits, also known as demogrants. These are non-contributory benefits given for whole sections of the population without a test of means or need, such as
family allowances or the public pension in New Zealand (known as New Zealand Superannuation). See also, Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend.
National Insurance (UK) Social Security in France South African Social Security Agency Social Security (United States) Social Security (Sweden) Social Security (Australia) Central Provident Fund (Singapore) National Social Security System (Sistem Jaminan Sosial Nasional)(Indonesia)
Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa tends not to be very developed and yet the growth of some of the region's economies and concerted attempts to tackle poverty mean that this situation may change in the future.