Conference recommends framework for quality apprenticeships, employment policies
14 June 2022 |
2:43 am
Participants at the just-concluded 110th International Labour Conference (ILC), held in Geneva, Switzerland, have recommended a framework for quality apprenticeships, discussions on employment policy
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Participants at the just-concluded 110th International Labour Conference (ILC), held in Geneva, Switzerland, have recommended a framework for quality apprenticeships, discussions on employment policy, social and solidarity economy, as well as work in the least developed countries.
Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, who said the conference closed with a “remarkable harvest of achievements,” said it also made history with its work on safety and health, apprenticeships, and labour standards, among other areas.
Referring to his report on the situation of workers in the occupied Arab territories, the director-general called for a renewed effort to mobilise resources to step up support, especially for the national employment strategy.
The final plenary session of the conference adopted the conclusions of the ILC’s tripartite standard-setting committee related to the development of a new ILO recommendation on quality apprenticeships that are expected to provide guidance on promoting apprenticeships and providing adequate protection to apprentices.
The committee’s conclusions include a definition of apprenticeships, a regulatory framework and equality and diversity issues.
The delegates also adopted a resolution to add a safe and healthy working environment to the existing four Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), which are part of the 1998 ILO Declaration on FPRW.
The session approved eight amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) and adopted the report of the committee on decent work and the social and solidarity economy.
Speaking during the closing ceremony, the President of the conference, Claudio Moroni, told delegates that, together, they had broadened the horizons of their work with the discussion on decent work and the social and solidarity economy.
He added that by working together, they had succeeded in strengthening the framework of fundamental principles and rights at work by including health and safety at work.
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