History, Function and achievements of International Labour Organization

1. International Labour Organization
Pranav Kishor Choudhary
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MBA 1st Year

2. Menu
• Facts
• Purpose of establishment of ILO
• Mandate to ILO

3. Inception
• Formed in 1919 After the end of WW1
first International Labour Conference, in Washington, D.C., in 1919, in front of the Pan American Union Building

4. In 1946, the ILO became the
first specialized agency
associated with the newly
formed United Nations,
following the dissolution of the
League of Nations

5. HQ in Geneva, Switzerland

6. Employees
• 40 field offices around the world.
• 2,700 officials from over 150 nations.

7. Its secretariat is known as the International
Labour Office

8. The only tripartite U.N. agency

9. Parliament of Labour
• Every year in June, the ILO organises the International Labour
Conference in Geneva.
• Conventions and recommendations are put forth by governments and
international agencies and draft guidelines.

10. Nobel Peace Prize
In 1969, the ILO received the
Nobel Peace Prize for:
• Improving fraternity and peace
among nations.
• Pursuing decent work and
justice for workers, and
• Providing technical assistance
to other developing nations.
Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1969/labour-history.html

11. The ILO has 187 members
Source: www.ilo.org
186 of the 193 UN member states

12. India and ILO
• One of the Founding Member of the ILO.
• Has been a permanent member of the ILO Governing Body since
1922.
• The first ILO Office in India started in 1928.
A
commemorative
postage stamp
on the 50th
Anniversary
of International
Labour
Organization

13. Purpose of Establishment of ILO

17. Working
Conditions

18. Industrial
Accidents

19. Discrimination at
work

20. Discrimination at
work

21. Establishment
It was created in 1919, as part of
the Treaty of Versailles that ended
WW-I, to reflect the belief that
universal and lasting peace can be
accomplished only if it is based on
social justice.
Source: (Treaty of Versailles ) https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1920/20B09_18_engl.pdf

22. Purpose
• The driving forces for the ILO's
creation arose from security,
humanitarian, political and
economic considerations.
• The founders of the ILO recognized
the importance of social justice in
securing peace, against a
background of the exploitation of
workers in the industrializing
nations of that time.

23. Purpose
• There was also increasing
understanding of the world's
economic interdependence and
the need for cooperation to obtain
similarity of working conditions in
countries competing for markets.

24. The Constitution of the ILO was drafted in
early 1919 by the Labour Commission
It was composed of
representatives
from nine
countries:
Belgium, Cuba,
Czechoslovakia,
France, Italy, Japan,
Poland, the United
Kingdom and the
United States.
Members of the Commission on International Labour Legislation at the Paris
Peace Conference.

25. The Preamble of the ILO Constitution
• Whereas universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based
upon social justice.
• And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship
and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great
that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an
improvement of those conditions is urgently required.
• Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of
labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve
the conditions in their own countries

26. Relevance Today
• The regulation of the prevention of unemployment and the working
time and labour supply.
• Provision of an adequate living wage.
• Social protection of workers, children, young persons and women.
• Equal remuneration for work of equal value
• Freedom of association
• The importance of vocational and technical education.

27. Mandate

28. Sustainable Development Goals 2030

30. ILO’s mandate
Is to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes
promoting decent work for all women and men.

34. ILO’s mandate
Organised around four interrelated and mutually reinforcing strategic
objectives to achieve the Decent Work Agenda. These are:
1. Creating jobs
2. Guaranteeing rights at work
3. Extending social protection, and
4. Promoting social dialogue

35. Creating jobs
• Create greater opportunities for women and men to decent
employment and income.
• By promoting skills development, job creation, enterprise
development and cooperatives.
• Without productive employment, achieving the goals of decent living
standards, social and economic integration, personal fulfilment and
social development becomes a chimera.

36. Guaranteeing rights at work
• Set and promote standards and fundamental principles and rights at
work.
• An international legal framework on social standards ensures a level
playing field in the global economy.
• Prevents governments and employers from lowering labour standards
to increase comparative advantage in international trade.
• Lowering labour standards can:
• Encourage the spread of low-wage, low-skill, and high-turnover industries
• Prevent a country from developing more stable high-skilled employment

37. Extending social protection
• Only 27 per cent of the world’s population has adequate social
security coverage.
• More than half of world lack any coverage at all
• Social security involves access to
• health care and income security, particularly in cases of old age,
unemployment, sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity or loss of a main
income earner.
• To enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all.
• The ILO actively promotes policies and provides assistance to
countries to help extend adequate levels of social protection to all
members of society.

38. Promoting social dialogue and Tripartism
• Sound industrial relations and effective social dialogue are a means to
promote better wages and working conditions as well as peace and
social justice
• Social dialogue and tripartism covers:
• Negotiation, consultation and information exchange between and among the
different actors;
• Collective bargaining;
• Dispute prevention and resolution;
• Other instruments of social dialogue, including corporate social responsibility
and international framework agreements.

39. Conclusion

40. Sources
• https://www.ilo.org
• https://www.nobelprize.org

41. THANK YOU