Convene Indian Labour Conference

Convene Indian Labour Conference

Subject: National Organisations

Context : The BharatiyaMazdoorSangh on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to convene the Indian Labour Conference (ILC), the most recent session of which was held in 2015, at the earliest.

Concept :

• The Indian Labour Conference (ILC) is the apex level tripartite consultative committee in the Ministry of Labour & Employment to advise the Government on the issues concerning working class of the country.
• All the 12 Central Trade Union Organisations, Central Organisations of employers, all State Governments and Union Territories and Central Ministries/Departments concerned with the agenda items, are the members of the ILC.
• The first meeting of the Indian Labour Conference (then called Tripartite National Labour Conference) was held in 1942 and so far a total of 46 Sessions have been held.
• The 46th Session of Indian Labour Conference was held on 20–21 July, 2013 at VigyanBhavan, New Delhi .
• The agenda of the ILC is finalised by the Standing Labour Committee which is again a tripartite body after detailed discussions.