Director general

mr.juvan somavia
 Incorporation

 The ILO headquarter is in GENEVA

 The ILO was founded in 1990 as a part
of Treaty of Versailles after world
war I
 ILO was created to reflect the belief
that universal and lasting peace can
be accomplished only if it is based
on social justice
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 motives

 Humanitarian
 The condition of workers, more and
more numerous and exploited with no
consideration for their health, Their
family lives and their advancement,
was less and less acceptable
 Political
 Without an improvement in their
condition, the workers, whose numbers
were ever increasing as a result of
industrialization, would create social
unrest, even revolution
 Economical
 Because of its inevitable effect on the
cost of production, anyindustry or
country adopting social reform would
find itself at a disadvantage vis-à-vis its
competitors
 mission

 To bring decent work and livelihood ,

job related security and better living
standard to both people of rich and
poor countries
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 Also helps promoting rights at work ,

encouraging opportunities for
decent employment, enhancing
social protection and solving work
related issues
 Objective

 To Promote and realize standards and

fundamental principle and rights at
work
 To Create greater opportunites for for
women and men to secure decent
employment and income
 To Enhance the coverage and
effectiveness of social protection
for all
 To Strengthen tripartism and social
dialouge
 Constitution

 The constitution of ILO was

drafted between January
and April 1919 by the
Labour Commission set up
by peace conference
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 This commission was

composed of nine countries
and Chairman was Samuel
Gompers head of AFL
 In October 1919 first international
Labour conference was held in
Washington and six international
Labour convention were adopted
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 They were hours of work in industry

unemployment, maternity
protection, night work for women ,
minimum age and night work for
person in industry
 Member countries

 Currently ILO has 183 member STATE

 India since 28.06.1919
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 How ILO works

 The ILO has tripartite structure

 Three main bodies i.e. comprise govt.
Employer and Worker Representative
through which ILO accomplishes its
work
 In Geneva every year in June member state
of ILO meet at international Labour
conference
 Each member country has right to send 4
delegates
 Two govt. delegates, an employer
delegates and a worker delegate
 Governing body

 The conference is a forum for

discussion of key social and Labour
problems and also elect the
Governing Body
 Governing of 28 government
members,14 employer members, 14
worker member
 Takes decision on ILO POLICY and
establish program and budget and
submits to conference for adoption
 Elects the director General
 Redefining the
purpose

 In 1944 international labour

conference meet in Philadelphia,
USA redefined the aims and
purpose of ILO by adopting following
principles
 Labour is not a commodity
 Freedom of expression and of
association are essential to
sustained progress
 Poverty any where constitue a danger
to poverty every where
 conventions

 Equal remuneration conventions

 Minimum age conventions
 Discrimination convention
 Worst forms of child labour
 Child Labour

 As many 250 million children world

wide are thought to be working
deprived of adequate education
good health and basic freedom
 To abolish Child Labour ILO has
adopted WORST FORM OF CHILD
LABOUR CONVENTION
 An immediate measure to eliminate the
worst form of child labour to use any
child in any activity which harms the
health saftey or moral of child
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 IPECprogramme

 The International Programme on the

Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
currently manages over 1,000
programmes worldwide promoting
alternatives to child labor.
 Gender and jobs

 Gender equality is the key element of

the ILO agenda of “DECENT WORK
FOR ALL “
 THE ILO has committed to an
integrated policy on women and
work involves 2 programmes
 The international Programme on more
and better jobs for women
 The Capacity-building Programme on
Gender, Poverty and Employment.
Trainning and education

 The ILO INTERNATIONAL INSTITUE OF

LABOUR IN GENEVA
 Promotes policy research discussion on
emerging issues of concern to ILO
and its constituents
 A global forum on social policy enabling
govt., business and labour to
interact informally with the
academic community and other
opinion makers
 Educational programmes to assist trade
unions employers org. and labour
administraton
 publicaton

 ILO also has a publication house

 Different books by publications
 The Yearbook of Labour Statistics
 World Employment Report
 The ILO journal, International Labour
Review
 Issues

 Regulation of hours of work

 Maximum working day and week
 Labour supply, Prevention of
Unemployment and provision of
adequate living wage
 Protection of worker against sickness,
disease and injury arising out of his
employment
 Protection of worker when employed in
other countries other than their own
 Current news

 On 3rd dec,2009 The International

Institute for Labour Studies of the
International Labour Office (ILO) is
to launch a new study, entitled
“World of Work Report 2009
 On same day Kuwait gives US$
1,000,000 to the ILO in support of its
work to promote decent work in
Arab States
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 offices

 The ILO secretariat, operational

headquarters, research centre and
publishing house, are based in the
International Lab our Office,
Geneva.
 Administration and management are
decentralized in regional, area, and
branch offices in more than 40
countries.
 Thank you

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 GOPAL SAINI
 VIJAY PATEL
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