India’s latest Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) as set out by government, employers bodies representatives, workers representatives, and the ILO provides a framework so that the nation’s actors can cooperate in promoting decent work. India’s DWCP spans the period 2018-2022 and was signed on 20 November. The document sets decent work as one key objective along with facilitating the ratification of two prime international conventions, namely on freedom of association and collective bargaining.
Priority number one: worker protection. A large part of the population undertakes what the ILO terms as unacceptable work. In other words either workers’ fundamental rights are not being respected, or their health and safety is being compromised, or their freedom, dignity and safety is being jeopardized or in addition, they are living in poverty. The ILO warned how difficult it can be to tackle these forms of unacceptable work, not least because the informal sector is so predominant and...
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