ILO Organization: History, Functions and Role in Bangladesh
1.
2. Name - International Labor organization
Abbreviation - ILO
Formation - 19th April, 1919
Type - UN Specialized agency
Legal Status - Active members: 187 countries
Headquarter - Geneva,Switzerland
Website - www.ilo.org
3. Historyof ILO
• Two industrialists Robert Owen
(1771-1853) and Damiel Legrand
(1783-1859) first emphasized
the need of such organization.
• Hitley Commission: July, 1918
• American Federation of Labor:
December 1918
• Woodrow Wilson: Forteen
Points
4. Full employment and the raising of standard of living
Employment at the related occupation
Facilities for training and transfer of labor
Recognition to collective bargaining
Production of life and health
Assurance of equality of education opportunity
5. Labor is not a commodity
Freedom of expression and association are essential to
sustain progress
Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity
everywhere
7. Policies
ILO’s vision of decent
work
International labor
standards
Working out of poverty
Mandate
Set international labor
standard in the form of
convention and
recommendation
Provide technical
assistance of ILO
Undertake research and
dissemination of
information
9. Creation of international standards of labour
Employee promotion
Research and studies
Training
Development of social institution
Statistics and database
Labor migration
Social security
10. Active member state of ILO : 22nd June, 1972
ILO office in Dhaka: 25th June, 1973
Role of ILO in Bangladesh
Improving working condition
Capacity Building
Improving environment
Social protection
11. Working Impact
Socio Economic impacts
Legal Impacts
Environmental and health impacts
12. Convention 4: Night work(women) convention 1919
Convention 6: Night work of young persons
convention, 1919
Convention 14: Weekly rest (Industry) convention 1921
Convention 29: Forced labor convention 1930
Convention 45: Underground work (women)
convention, 1935
Convention 87: Freedom of association and protection
of the right to organize convention 1948
13. Convention 89: Night work (women) convention
(revised) 1948
Convention 96: Protection of wage convention 1949
Convention 107: Weekly rest (commerce and office)
convention 1957
Convention 118: social policy (basic aim and standards)
convention 1962
Convention 144: Migrant workers (supplementary
provisions) convention 1975
Convention 188: Promotional framework for
occupational safety and health convention 2006