ILO CONVENTIONS

ILO CONVENTIONS

TOPIC: Polity

Context- Recently, the CRUSHED Report 2021 released by Safe in India (SII) portrays a dismal picture concerning occupational safety and health in the auto sector.

• However, occupational safety and health (OSH) has not received due attention from law- makers and even trade unions in India. OSH is an existential human and labour right.

Concept-

ILO:

• Established in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles as an affiliated agency of the League of Nations.
• Became the first affiliated specialized agency of the United Nations in 1946.
• Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
• The ILO sets international labour standards with conventions, which are ratified by member states. These are non-binding.
• In ratifying an ILO convention, a member state accepts it as a legally binding Many countries use conventions as a tool to bring national laws in line with international standards.

ILO Conventions:

• The eight-core conventions of the ILO are:
  • Forced Labour Convention (No. 29)
  • Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (No.105)
  • Equal Remuneration Convention (No.100)
  • Discrimination (Employment Occupation) Convention (No.111)
  • Minimum Age Convention (No.138)
  • Worst forms of Child Labour Convention (No.182)
  • Freedom of Association and Protection of Right to Organised Convention (No.87)
  • Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (No.98)
• India has not ratified the two core/fundamental conventions, namely Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98).
• India has ratified International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions,
  • the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (C081) and
  • Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (C160);