INTERNATIONAL

LABOUR
ORGANIZATION
 INTRODUCTION

■ Set up in 1919
■ To reflect the belief that universal and lasting peace can be accomplished
only if it is based on social justice
■ India founder member of ILO
 CHARTER OF FREEDOM OF
LABOUR
■ Labour is not a commodity
■ Freedom of expression and association are essential to sustained progress
■ Poverty anywhere constitutes threat to prosperity everywhere
■ ‘War against want’
 STRUCTURE

Tripartite Organization
ILO

REPRESENTATI REPRESENTATI REPRESENTATI

INTERNATIONAL
GOVERNING INTERNATIONAL
LABOUR
BODY LABOUR OFFICE
CONFERENCE

Sets international
Permanent
labour standards Executive council
Secretariat of the
and broad of ILO
ILO
policies of ILO
 INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
■ STANDARDS
ILS are legal instruments drawn up by the ILO’s constituents setting out basic
principles and rights at work

ILS

RECOMMENDATIO
CONVENTIONS
NS
 EIGHT FUNDAMENTAL
CONVENTIONS
1. Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention
1948
2. Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention 1949
3. Forced Labour Convention 1930
4. Abolition of Forced Labour Convention 1957
5. Minimum Age Convention 1973
6. Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention 1999
7. Equal Remuneration Convention 1951
8. Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention 1958
SUBJECTS COVERED BY ILS
EMPLOYME
NT POLICY

VOCATIONAL
EMPLOYME
GUIDANCE
NT
AND
SECURITY
TRAINING

INDIGENOUS
AND TRIBAL WAGES
PEOPLE

WORKING MATERNITY
TIME PROTECTION

MIGRANT
WORKERS
 ILO DECLARATION ON FUNDAMENTAL
PRINCIPLES AND RIGHTS AT WORK,
1998
1. Realise the freedom of association and effective recognition of the right to
collective bargaining
2. Elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour
3. Effective abolition of child labour
4. Elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
 ILO AND INDIA
■ Founding member of ILO
■ Member of Governing Body since 1922
■ India’s 12th Five-year Plan (2012-17) has been aligned with the main priorities
of ILO’s Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP)

OBJECTIVES

Organize ILO
Promote decent work knowledge,
as a key component of instruments,
national advocacy and
developmental cooperation at the
strategies service of tripartite
constituents
CONSTITUENTS IN INDIA
WORKERS’ EMPLOYERS’
GOVERNME
ORGANIZATI ORGANIZATI
NT OF INDIA
ON ON

MINISTRY OF BHARATIYA COUNCIL OF

FEDERATION OF
ALL INDIA
MINISTRY OF INDIAN
TRADE UNION
RURAL CHANBERS OF
CONGRESS
DEVELOPMENT COMMERCE AND
(AITUC)
INDUSTRY (FICCI)

LABOUR
PROGRESSIVE
FEDERATION
(LPF)

OTHERS
 RIGHT TO
WORK OF
ONE’S
RIGHT TO CHOICE
PARTICIPATI RIGHT
AGAINST
ON IN DISCRIMINATI
MANAGEME ON
NT

RIGHT TO
ORGANIZE
AND FORM
PROHIBITIO
TRADE
UNIONS AND
RIGHTS N OF CHILD
LABOUR
RIGHT TO OF
COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING
EVERY
WORKE
R
RIGHT TO JUST AND
REDRESSA HUMANE
L OF CONDITIO
GRIEVANC NS OF
ES WORK

PROTECTION
OF WAGES RIGHT TO
INCLUDING
RIGHT TO SOCIAL
GUARANTEE SECURITY
D WAGES
 ILO CENTENARY DECLARATION FOR THE FUTURE OF
■ Adopted in June 2019
WORK

MAJOR
RECOMMENDATIO
NS

ENVIRONMENT
SKILLS AND
INVESTING IN ADEQUATE LIMITED SAFETY AND FOR ECONOMIC DECENT WORK
SOCIAL
JOBS WAGES WORKING HOURS HEALTH SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FOR ALL
PROTECTION
ENTERPRISES