Comment and analysis
2016
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InfoStories
Can collective bargaining create a fairer economy?
12 May 2016
Collective bargaining allows employers, employers’ organizations and trade unions to address work-related issues together and negotiate a collective agreement. A collective agreement typically covers issues such as wages, working time and other working conditions, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the workers and employers involved.
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Deceptive recruitment and coercion
12 May 2016
Forced labour can take many different forms. Victims are often tricked into jobs where they are paid little or nothing and then cannot leave because they have been manipulated into debt or had their identity documents confiscated. Poverty, illiteracy, discrimination and migration are some of the factors that make workers more vulnerable to forced labour.
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Tackling sex discrimination through pay equity
12 May 2016
Discrimination at work is a violation of a basic human right. Workers may be discriminated against on many different grounds, including their sex, with women being particularly discriminated against with respect to their pay.
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Child labour in agriculture
12 May 2016
Children all over the world are being exploited, prevented from going to school, or pushed into work that endangers their health and normal development. In many regions, child labour is found mainly in agricultural contexts, where fatalities, severe accidents and diseases are common.
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Reducing inequalities
ILO: Domestic workers should have the right to rest
04 April 2016
ILO publication says domestic workers should enjoy the same right to sufficient rest as other workers.
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Seafarers’ Identity Documents
Security, seafarers’ shore leave and ILO Convention 185
24 March 2016
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 seafarers’ access to shore leave. Brandt Wagner, Head, Transport and Maritime Unit, ILO Sectoral Policies Department, spoke with ILO News about the meeting and how it dealt with issues around shore leave and security.
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2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
2030 Agenda: Indonesia aims high
02 March 2016
Decent work will be at the heart of Indonesia’s development agenda as it moves to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, explains Gilbert Houngbo, Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Youth employment
Young and female: A double “strike” for women entering the workforce
09 February 2016
An ILO/MasterCard Foundation study sheds new light on the challenges facing young women’s participation in the world of work.
2015
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Sustainable development
10 action points towards a greener economy
26 November 2015
Just before the opening of the Paris climate conference that is expected to set new ambitious targets to move to a low-carbon economy, ILO Green Jobs Programme Coordinator Kees van der Ree outlines ten steps that can facilitate a transition to a green economy.
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Sustainable Development Goals
Building a global alliance against child labour and forced labour
04 November 2015
Beate Andrees, Chief of the ILO’s Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch explains how we can achieve target 8.7 of the United Nations’ SDGs which calls for an end to forced labour and child labour by 2025.