1. Linking Domestic Workers’ Priorities with ILO’s Decent Work Agenda
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2. Issues Covered in this Presentation
Mandate and Core Principles of the ILO
The ILO’s Strategic Policy Framework,
What is Decent Work?
The 4 Pillars of Decent Work
Domestic Workers’ Priorities
Decent Work Country Programmes
The ILO Employment Strategy

3. The ILO Mandate Initial Motivation:
- Humanitarian: Conditions of work (health and family)
- Political: To pre-empt social unrest/revolutions
- Economic: Create a fair playground
Constitution states – “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 of labour in their own countries.”

4. Continues…
Devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.
Its main aims:-
Promote Rights at Work;
Encourage Decent Employment Opportunities;
Enhance Social Protection;
Strengthen Social Dialogue in handling Work-related Issues.

5. Continues…
Its Mandate is to promote opportunities for men and women to realise, through social dialogue and tripartism, social justice, decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equality, security and human dignity, which is summed up by the expression “Decent Work as a global goal.”
The 2008 SJD states that for the ILO to achieve its objectives, the Office would need to strengthen its capacity to assist its Members’ efforts inter alia through making labour law and institutions effective, including in respect of the recognition of:
- Employment relationships;
- Promotion of good industrial relations; and
- Building of effective labour inspection systems.

6. Continues…
The SJD is “based on the mandate contained in the ILO Constitution, including the Declaration of Philadelphia (1944)” while “drawing on and reaffirming the ILO Declaration on FPRW (1998).”
The SJD requires the Organisation to “promote the ILO’s standard-setting policy as a cornerstone of ILO activities by enhancing its relevance to the world of work, and ensure the role of standards as a useful means of achieving the constitutional objectives of the Organisation.”

7. Continues… - Worker protection;
By adopting the GJP in 2009, the ILO pointed to the need to strengthen the capacities of labour administration and labour inspection as an important element in inclusive action on:
- Worker protection;
- Social security;
- Labour market policies; and
- Social dialogue.
The Organisation’s foremost task is to respond to constituents’ needs related to the world of work, in keeping with its basic values and mandate in a globalised world.

8. The Strategic Policy Framework, 2010-15
RESOURCES TECHNICAL DELIVERY OUTCOMES STRATEGIC OBJECTUVES AND GOAL CAPACITIES
Regular Budget
Regular Budget Supplementary Account
Extra-budgetary resources
Knowledge
Reinforcing the capacity of constituents
Partnerships and communication
Operational
capacity
Services, products and advocacy based on:
ILO mandate and tripartite principles as set out in the Constitution, the Declaration of Philadelphia, the 1998 Declaration , and the Social Justice Declaration
International Labour Conference and Governing Body decisions
Constituents’ priorities, in particular as found in Decent Work Country Programmes, regional meetings, agreements and plans of action
Employment promotion
Skills development
Sustainable enterprises
Social security
Working conditions
Occupational safety and health
Labour migration
HIV/AIDS
Employers’ organisations
Workers’ organisations
Labour administration and labour law
Social dialogue and industrial relations
Decent work in economic sectors
Freedom of association and collective bargaining
Forced labour
Child labour
Discrimination at work
International lablour standards
Mainstreaming decent work
GOVERNANCE, SUPPORT AND MANAGEMENT
OUTCOME TITLES: Use of resources, Governance

9. What is Decent Work?
Decent Work sums up the aspirations of people for:
Work that is productive,
gives fair income,
security in the workplace & social protection for the family,
equal opportunities & treatment,
better prospects for - personal devt & social integration,
freedom to organise & participate in decision making
Concept of Decent Work encompasses both
Individual and Collective dimensions (C 87 & 98)

10. The 4 pillars of Decent Work
productive employment &
sustainable enterprises
social protection/
social security for all
Standards &
basic rights at work
Promotion of Social dialogue,
including Collective bargaining
[+ Gender Mainstreaming]

11. Domestic Workers’ Priorities
Promotion of the ratification, implementation & supervision of the application of C.189
Inclusion of C.189 and R.201 in DWCPs
Protection of human and labour rights of domestic workers including the right to organise and bargain collectively
Protection of domestic workers (live-in) against abuses and malpractices
Promotion of a gender-sensitive and rights-based approach to domestic workers
Extension of social security and social protection coverage to domestic workers
Guaranteeing safe and healthy working environment through sound OSH and LI systems

12. Continues…
Strategies to address gender based violence in the world of work
Extension of social security and OSH to the domestic labour sector
Wage settings, including minimum wage determination
Promotion of stable employment relationships
High-work uncertainty: poor working conditions, low wages, work permit, job insecurity, temporary jobs, etc.
Labour dispute settlement
Control of trafficking of women and children

13. Decent Work Country Programmes
The ILO provides support through integrated Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs).
DWCP defines the priorities and targets within national development frameworks.
Aim to tackle major decent work deficits through efficient programmes that embrace each of the 4 strategic objectives.

14. ILO Employment Strategy
Ministers, Commissioners, etc.
Agenda: Based on the headlines of the
DW Communication:
- General
- within EU
- Trade
- Development
 Conclusions
Network-IDEAs
Nairobi Jan, 2007
Timo Voipio, MFA-Finland
UM/KYO

15. The End!
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