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Remote work helped during COVID: ILO report

  • January 7, 2023
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Remote work helped during COVID: ILO report

Subject :Economy

Context

  • Short-time work and work-sharing measures or other forms of job retention helped to reduce the volume of work and save jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, said a report of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
  • The report, titled Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World, said flexible working hours enabled individuals as well as companies, enterprises and industries to collectively reduce the hours of work, a trend already generated before the crisis.
  • The crisis also created the possibility of increasing the hours of work for new economic bottleneck areas, such as in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industries.
  • The report looked at the working hours and working time arrangements and the effects of both on business performance and employees’ work-life balance.
  • It found that a substantial portion of the global workforce are working either long or short hours when compared to a standard eight-hour day/40 hour working week.

International Labor Organization

  • It is the only tripartite United Nation (UN) agency.
  • It brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States (India is a member), to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.
  • Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969.
  • 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 UN in 1946.
  • Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Important Reports : Global Wage Report, Social Dialogue Report, World Social Protection Report, World Employment and Social Outlook : Trends, etc.

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.
Remote work helped during COVID: ILO report

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