Employers' Handbook on ILO Standards-related Activities

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Contents Page Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Labour Standards (ILS): The core of ILO standards-related 1 activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 History of ILO standard-setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Rationale for ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 II. ILS and employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Relevance of ILS to employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 General attitude of employers towards ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Employers’ views on selected ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 III. The creation of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 General remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The selection of items for standard-setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The elaboration and adoption of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Universality and flexibility of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 IV. The implementation of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 General remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Submission to the competent authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ratification and implementation of Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Non-ratification of Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 V. The supervision of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 General overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Regular supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Special supervisory procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Interpretation of Conventions and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 VI. Methods of renewing ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 General overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 vii
viii EMPLOYERS’ HANDBOOK ON ILO STANDARDS-RELATED ACTIVITIES The revision of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Abrogation, withdrawal and shelving of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Denunciation of Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 VII. Other standards-related activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 General overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The Freedom of Association procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its 46 Follow-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 VIII. ILS and technical cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 General remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Technical cooperation in support of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 ILS in support of technical cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The question of conditionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 IX. The reform of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 General remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Recent measures and proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Employers’ views on ILS reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 X. Looking ahead – Challenges and opportunities for ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 General remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Regional standard-setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Trade and labour standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 “Private” standard-setting initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Appendix 1: Official titles of ILO Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Appendix 2: Summary table on decisions taken regarding International Labour Conventions and Recommendations (excerpt from GB.280/ LILS/WP/PRS/1/2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Appendix 3: Substantive provisions of the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) and the Tripartite Consultation (Activities of the International Labour Organisation) Recommendation, 1976 (No. 152) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Appendix 4: ILS-related rules/regulations of particular relevance to employers’ and workers’ organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Appendix 5: Sample of the letter sent yearly by the Office to the national employers’ and workers’ organizations regarding their role in the implementation of ILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Appendix 6: “More targeted standards for a greater impact”, excerpt from The ILO, standard setting and globalization, Report of the Director- General, International Labour Conference, 85th Session, Geneva, 1997 . 101 Appendix 7: “Renewing work on labour standards”, excerpt from Decent work, Report of the Director-General, International Labour Conference, 87th Session, Geneva, 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Appendix 8: “ILO standards-related activities”, IOE Position paper (As adopted by the IOE General Council on 9 June 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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