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International Labour Standards Department (NORMES)

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Tel : +41 (0) 22 799 7155
Email : normes@ilo.org
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  1. Rules of the Game: an introduction to standards-related work of the ILO

    Centenary Edition 2019

  2. Podcast

    Writing the rules of the game - How international labour standards are created

  3. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards

  4. ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work

    108th Session of the International Labour Conference (2019)

  5. Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy (MNE Declaration)

  6. ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008)

  7. ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998)

Labour standards

International labour standards have grown into a comprehensive system of instruments on work and social policy, backed by a supervisory system designed to address all sorts of problems in their application at the national level.  more

Highlights

  1. CEACR

    ILO releases 2024 report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

    9 February 2024

  2. CEACR - General Survey

    Labour Administration in a Changing World of Work

    26 February 2024

Supervisory bodies and procedures

General Introduction
  1. Supervising the application of standards
    ► Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR)
        ► Two vacancies on the ILO CEACR
    ► Conference Committee on the Application of Standards (CAN)
    ► Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA)
Reports of the supervisory bodies
  1. NEW - 2024 Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
  2. NEW - 2024 General Survey: Labour administration in a changing world of work 
  3. 2023 Report of the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards
  4. 404th Report of the Committee on Freedom of Association (November 2023)
Complaint procedures
  1. Representations under article 24 of the ILO Constitution
  2. Complaints under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

What's new

  1. © Ryan Brown / UN Women 2024

    Maritime sector

    ILO and IMO recommend new steps against shipboard violence, harassment, and sexual assault

    06 March 2024

    The organizations’ recommendations include amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, a new IMO mandatory training for seafarers, and a joint IMO/ILO international awareness campaign.

  2. Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    Fifth Meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee established under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    Geneva, 7–11 April 2025

  3. Report III(B) - General Survey

    Labour administration in a changing world of work

    26 February 2024

    General Survey on the Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) and the Labour Administration Recommendation, 1978 (No. 158)

  4. © ILO 2024

    International Labour Standards

    Philippines ratifies Convention No. 190 on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work

    22 February 2024

    Philippines becomes the 38th country in the world, and the first Asian country, to ratify Convention No. 190.

  5. International Labour Standards

    Portugal ratifies the ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment

    19 February 2024

    Convention No. 190 is the first international labour standard to address violence and harassment in the world of work.

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