2009

1. Meeting document

   Report I(B) - Report of the Director-General: The cost of coercion

   12 May 2009

2. 

   Guidelines

   Promoting Equity: gender-neutral job evaluation for equal pay. A step-by-step guide

   10 January 2009

   This Guide, to be used when mplementing the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value, free from discrimination based on sex, as enshrined in the ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100), is in keeping with the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and, in particular, with the 2003 and 2007 Global Reports devoted to equality at work. It is meant as a tool to be used to promote this principle in many different workplace environments. To date, the ILO Convention No. 100, adopted in 1951, has been ratified by 167 countries. However, despite this broad consensus regarding the principle enshrined in it, the pay gap between women and men remains a persistent and universal fact of the labour market. Recent statistical surveys have revealed that this gap exists in countries with very diverse economic structures and that, although the gap is decreasing in most of these countries, this progress is being achieved very slowly. The gap persists despite the significant gains women have made in terms of education and work experience.

3. Resource list

   ILO Codes of Practice and Guides on Occupational Health

   01 January 2009

2008

1. 

   Publication

   Building Rural Roads

   05 November 2008

   This manual attempts to present a set of technical solutions and works methods commonly applied in a number of countries where the use of local resources is given serious consideration when building rural roads. Based on best practices from rural road-building programmes in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, it describes a set of work methods and procedures proven to be effective both in terms of cost and quality.

2. Publication

   Handbook “Combating forced labour: A handbook for employers and business”(Armenian version)

   22 October 2008

   This handbook provides guidance material and tools for employers and business to strengthen their capacity to address the risk of forced labour and human trafficking in their own operations and in global supply chains.

3. Meeting document

   Resolutions adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 97th Session

   22 August 2008

4. Meeting document

   Report IV: Promotion of rural employment for poverty reduction

   08 April 2008

5. Meeting document

   Report I(B): Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

   12 March 2008

   Freedom of association in practice: Lessons learned

2007

1. 

   Publication

   Microfinance and public policy. Outreach, performance and efficiency.

   12 November 2007

   This book states to aid agencies and governments to consider efficiency as a robust and reliable criterion to guide their decisions on whether continuing or discounting support from microfinance institutions (MFIS).

2. 

   Publication

   Trade and employment: Challenges for policy research

   19 February 2007

   This study provides an impartial view of what can be said, on the relationship between trade and employment, an often contentious issue of public debate. Its focus is on the connections between trade policies, and labour and social policies. It is the outcome of collaborative research between the secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Labour Office (ILO), addressing such issues tha concern both organizations.