Future of Work Initiative: The road to the Declaration

The Future of Work Initiative marked a four year process that begin with a series of National Dialogues on the Future of Work and culminated with the adoption of the Centenary Declaration on the Future of Work at the 108th International Labour Conference in 2019. Here were the main steps along the way.

2019


22 January Presentation of the Global Commission's Report and Recommendations
10-21 June 108th Centenary Session of the International Labour Conference - Third Stage Discussion on the Global Commission's Report and Recommendations

Adoption of the Centenary Declaration

2018

15-17 February  2nd meeting of the Global Commission
20 March 332nd Governing Body - Information Session on the Global Commission
15-17 May  3rd meeting of the Global Commission
28 May-8 June 107th Session of the International Labour Conference
  - Information Session on the Global Commission
15-17 November 4th meeting of the Global Commission

2017

6-7 April The Future of Work we want: A Global Dialogue 
May-June End of First Stage: National Dialogues - the Synthesis Report
5-16 June 106th Session of the International Labour Conference
3-5 July 5th Conference of the Regulating for Decent Work Network
21 August Beginning of Second Stage: the Global Commission
  - Launch of the Global Commission
20-22 October 1st meeting of the Global Commission
4 December Publication of Key Reports submitted to the Global Commission
  - the Inception Report
  - the Synthesis Report of the National Dialogues (aforementioned)

2016

late December 2015 - mid 2017 Beginning of First Stage: National Dialogues
  National "future of work" dialogues structured around four “centenary conversations”

2015

1-13 June 104th Session of the International Labour Conference
  - Report of the Director-General : The future of work centenary initiatives
December the Director-General sent a letter to the ILO member States to introduce the Initiaitive
  - Guy Ryder's Letter