Publication

Combating forced labour: A handbook for employers and business

25 June 2015

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. (2015 revised edition)

Fair recruitment initiative

Regulating labour recruitment to prevent human trafficking and to foster fair migration: Models, challenges and opportunities

24 June 2015

This working paper presents the role of international labour standards in regulating recruitment and provides a preliminary overview of national laws, policies, regulations and enforcement mechanism which aim to prevent fraudulent recruitment practices and protect workers from unscrupulous labour recruiters.

Fair recruitment initiative

Global labour recruitment in a supply chain context

24 June 2015

This working paper discusses regulatory models and other measures available to stop abusive recruitment practices. It seeks to explain why the labour recruitment market operates as it does, and to propose responses that combat those market forces which create an environment conducive to abuse and fraud.

Fact sheet

Labour Migration Highlights No. 1

17 June 2015

Provisional Record No.14-1(Rev.)

Third item on the agenda: Information and reports on the application of Conventions and Recommendations - Report of the Committee on the Application of Standards (Part.1)

13 June 2015

GENERAL REPORT

International Journal of Labour Research

A just transition for all: Can the past inform the future?

11 June 2015

2015 is a decisive year for global agreements on Sustainable Development and climate change. The ILO calls for a just transition for all towards a greener and more socially sustainable economy. This Journal is focussing on drawing lessons from a few transition experiences in order to analyse how successfully (or not) these processes were managed in the past and how future transitions might be handled in a just manner. Challenges such as policy coherence, consultations and participation by all relevant stakeholders are addressed and lessons learned on these issues are highlighted in the Journal.

2015 World Report on Child Labour

World Report on Child Labour 2015: Paving the way to decent work for young people

10 June 2015

The second volume of the ILO World Report on Child Labour series highlights the close linkages between child labour and good youth employment outcomes, and the consequent need for common policy approaches to addressing challenges arising in countries where both child labour and youth unemployment prevail.

104th International Labour Conference

ILO Director-General calls for global initiative on the future of work

01 June 2015

"We need to look at the longer term drivers of change, the transformational mega-trends, and what they imply for the goals we pursue in the ILO in its second century," said Guy Ryder in front of more than 4,000 delegates gathering in Geneva.

Publication

Compendium of Maritime Labour Instruments - Second (revised) edition

01 June 2015

The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 94th (Maritime) Session, is sometimes called a “bill of rights” for seafarers. It sets out seafarers’ rights to decent conditions of work and helps establish conditions for fair competition for shipowners.

Training

Multinational enterprises, development and decent work: the approach of the MNE Declaration

This five-day course will look at how governments, enterprises and the social partners are encouraged to each put policies in place and engage with each other through dialogue to maximize the positive contribution of multinational enterprises to socio economic development and decent work.