| Convention |
Year
Adopted
|
Title
of Convention |
Ratified
Nations |
Remarks |
| I.
Core Labor Standards |
| 105 |
1957 |
Abolition
of Forced Labor Convention |
158 |
Suppresses and does
not allow use any form of forced or compulsory labor.
(priority convention) |
| 111 |
1958 |
Discrimination
(Employment and Occupation) Convention (Discrimination
with respect to employment and occupation) |
156 |
Eliminates all discrimination
on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, political
opinion, national extraction or social origin, which
has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of
opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation.
(priority convention) |
| II.
Freedom of Association |
| 151 |
1978 |
Labor
Relations (Public Service) Convention (Protection of
the right to organize and procedures for determining
conditions of employment in the public service) |
39 |
Recovers the basic
labor rights of public employees, which determines the
right to organize, participation of labor unions at
negotiating conditions of employment, settlement of
disputes, and political rights in the public service. |
| III.
Condition of Employment |
| 47 |
1935 |
Forty-Hour
Week Convention (Reduces work hours to a forty-hour
week) |
14 |
Application of a
forty-hour work week due to an exception in Article
32 in the Japanese Basic Labor Act. |
| 132 |
1970 |
Holidays
with Pay Convention |
32 |
Seeks no less than
three working weeks for one year of service, one of
the parts shall consist of at least two uninterrupted
working weeks. It is crucial for achieving a comfortable
living standard. |
| 140 |
1974 |
Paid
Educational Leave Convention |
32 |
Paid educational
leave for the purpose of training at any level, general,
social and civic education, and trade union education. |
| 94 |
1949 |
Labor
Clauses (Public Contracts) Convention |
59 |
Regarding the conditions
of Labor of employees who are employed by private businesses
when at least one of the parties to the contract is
a public authority. |
| 158 |
1982 |
Termination
of Employment Convention (Termination of employment
at the initiative of the employer) |
32 |
Determines the degree
of worker protection from unjustified termination, enables
workers to appeal against termination to an impartial
body, and protects workers from having to bear the burden
of proof that termination was unjustified. |
| 171 |
1990 |
Night
Work Convention |
7 |
Requires that specific
measures shall be taken for night workers in order to
protect their health, and assist them to meet their
familial and social responsibilities. |
| 173 |
1992 |
Protection
of Workers' Claims (Employer's Insolvency) Convention
(Protection of workers' claims in the event of the insolvency
of their employer) |
15 |
Clarifies the protection
of workers' claims by means of a privilege. |
| 175 |
1994 |
Part-time
Work Convention |
9 |
Defines social security
schemes and employment conditions for part-time workers
so that they can enjoy conditions equivalent to those
of comparable full-time workers. |
| 177 |
1996 |
Home
Work Convention |
2 |
Defines that a member
country needs to implement policy on home work aimed
at improving the situation of homeworkers, as well as
promotes equality of treatment between homeworkers and
other wage earners. |
| IV.
Safety and Health |
| 155 |
1981 |
Occupational
Safety and Health Convention |
37 |
Necessary to ratify
the convention in terms of strengthening measures for
safety and health, as well as in terms of internatiionalization
of standards. |
| 148 |
1977 |
Working
Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention |
41 |
Protects workers
against occupational hazards in the working environment
due to air pollution, noise and vibration. |
| V.
Social Security |
| 128 |
1967 |
Invalidity,
Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention |
16 |
For qualification
of benefits and standards for the disabled persons,
seniors (over 65 years) and surviving family members.
|
| VI.
Women's Employment |
| 183 |
2000 |
Maternity
Protection Convention |
3 |
Revised to further
promote protected safeguards in C.103 the Maternity
Protection Convention (1952). |
| VII.
Specific Industries |
| 108 |
1957 |
Seafarers'
Identity Documents Convention |
61 |
Each country for
which this Convention is in force shall issue to each
of its nationals who is a seafarer on application by
him a seafarer's identity document. Also, the convention
defines conditions of permit for any seafarer temporary
entry into a territory. |
| 137 |
1973 |
Dock
Work Convention (The social repercussions of new methods
of cargo handling in docks) |
22 |
Encourages permanent
or regular employment. Also in it dockworkers shall
be assured minimum periods of employment or a minimum
income. |
| 149 |
1977 |
Nursing
Personnel Convention (Employment and conditions of work
and life of nursing personnel ) |
36 |
Defines that a member
country shall adopt measures to provide nursing personnel
with education and training as well as to improve employment
and working conditions,
to provide the quantity and quality of nursing care
necessary for attaining the highest possible level of
health for the population. |
| 153 |
1979 |
Hours
of Work and Rest Periods (Road Transport) Convention
(Hours of work and rest periods in road transport) |
7 |
Defines that the
competent authority or body in each country shall lay
down adequate standards concerning driving time and
rest periods of drivers, for instance, no driver shall
be allowed to drive continuously for more than four
hours without a break.² |
