International Labour Organization
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ILO (International Labour Organisation) is the UN specialized agency for employment and workplace issues. The organization is known as a tripartite body in which both representatives from government, employers and employees from the member countries are represented. ILO currently has 177 member countries.
ILO's goal is to fight poverty and promote social justice by promoting employment, good working conditions and to protect trade union rights and freedoms. The business consists of developing global conventions and recommendations on rights at work. Then it is up to member states to ratify, that is, sign them and implement the convention in national legislation. All member states have not ratified all conventions.
1969 was the ILO awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having a lasting impact on many countries' laws.
ILO core conventions
The ILO have eight so-called core conventions. The difference between the core conventions and other conventions is that they will apply all members of the ILO not only in those that have ratified them. Therefore, it is called for fundamental human rights at the workplace.
- No. 29 If forced or compulsory labor
- No. 87 About association, unions and the right to organize
- No. 98 About the right to organize and collective bargaining
- No. 100, If equal pay for men and women
- No. 105 Abolition of forced labour
- No. 111, About discrimination in employment and occupation
- No. 138, About the minimum working age
- No. 182 Prohibition of worst forms of child labor
