Ten Trade Union Actions - Inclusive Cities

tion of these legal provisions. TheConvention establishes standards for aproperly functioning labour inspection.A protocol was adopted in 1995.• Social Policy (Basic Aims andStandards) Convention, 1962 (C. 117)This Convention establishes a stronglink between economic growth andsocial progress. The main purpose ofeconomic development is to improvethe living standard of the population,according to Article 2 of the Convention.The government must takemeasures to guarantee all the workersa minimum living standard. This supposesa broad social policy: measuresin the field of health care, housing,nutrition, education, child care, equaltreatment, working conditions, minimumwage, protection of migrant andagricultural workers, social securityand publicservices. In brief, theConvention supplies various startingpoints for trade union action in favourof the informal economy workers.• Employment Policy Convention,1964 (C122)This Convention compels the memberstates to pursue an active policy aimedat full, productive and freely chosenemployment. When developing thispolicy, the stage and level of the country’seconomic development and therelation between employment andother economic and social goals maybe taken into account.• Labour Inspection (Agriculture)Convention, 1969 (C. 129)Under this Convention the labourinspection system applies to all theagricultural workers regardless the waythey are paid and regardless the type,form and duration of their contract.Enforcement of labour laws, adviceand information to employers andworkers and reporting labour standardsviolations are among the coretasks of the labour inspection(see also C. 81).• Labour Administration Convention,1978 (C. 150)This Convention is about extendingtasks and activities of the labouradministration to groups of workerswho are not, in law, employed persons,such as agricultural workers,self-employed workers occupied inthe informal economy and members ofco-operatives. The government cancall on trade unions and employers’organisations to carry out these activities.23