ILO
- October 24, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: International Organization
Context: India assumed the role of chair of International Labour Organisation body from October 2020.
Concept:
- The ILO was created in 1919 by the Versailles Peace Treaty.
- After the demise of the League of Nations, it became the first specialized agency associated with the UN.
- Its secretariat is in Geneva, Switzerland.
- It has 187 of the 193 UN member states plus the Cook Islands.
- It is responsible for drawing up and over seeing international labour standards.
- It has a tripartite governing structure – representing governments, employers, and workers.
- It publishes Global Wage report.
Eight Core Conventions of the ILO
- 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)
Note: India has not ratified Convention No 98 and 87.