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NCM-120-WEEK-1-DECENT WORK Day 1
NCM-120-WEEK-1-DECENT WORK Day 1
Employment
Learning Objectives:
• After learning the concept, the students will be able:
Juan Sumavia
born in Chile on April 11, 1941
serves as ILO-Director from March 1999 to
September 2012
with long and distinguished career in civil, political,
© 1996-2021 International Labour and international affairs.
Organization (ILO)
active in addressing the social dimension of the
present financial and economic crisis (ILO, 2021).
articulated decent work in 1999
Chilean Permanent Representative to the UN from
1990 to 1999
Juan Sumavia
launched the Decent Work Agenda and under his
leadership, the Organization established “Decent
Work” as its primary goal.
© 1996-2021 International Labour fight for the rights of the workforces around the
Organization (ILO) world.
the ninth Director-General of the ILO by the
Governing Body on 23 March 1998.
On 7 November 2013, he was appointed by Sec.
General Ban Ki-moon to serve as Special Adviser
on Interregional Policy Cooperation.
2009
History of
• Common Agenda for Decent Work was launched
Decent in October 2009.
Work 2019
in the • The ILO 24-Hour Global Tour Manila held on 11
Philippines April 2019 featured the Decent Work Country
Programme and its key components.
• The Philippines was the first in Asia to broadcast
live globally marking 100 years or the ILO
Centenary.
Overall Goal
• To effect positive change in people’s lives at the
national and local levels.
(ILO, 1999, p.3, Ghai,2006). just any work, but a decent work.
means dignity, equality, a fair
income, and safe working
conditions.
puts people at the center of
development
to promote opportunities for
Primary Goal of the
women and men to obtain decent
I.L.O
(ILO, 1999, p.3, Ghai,2006). and productive work, in
conditions of freedom, equity,
security and human dignity.”
(ILO, 1999, p.3, Ghai,2006).
Focused of ILO
Employment
Social security
Industrial relations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
affirmed that “All human beings are free
and equal in dignity and in rights," making
universality a cornerstone of the human
rights legal system.
Universality Universality
and Diversity • The quality of involving or being shared by
all people or things in the world or in a
Globally particular group.
• It is about human dignity, not about
homogeneity
Diversity
• Is understanding that each individual is
unique and recognizing our individual
differences.
• Decent works is an aspiration of
Decent Work people in their working lives to have
Indicators an equal opportunity in a workplace
in a safe environment that considers
all the rights that the workers or
employees should have.
social dialogue,
adequate equal opportunity
employers’, and
earnings and and treatment in
workers’
productive work employment
representation
combining work,
work that should
family, and
be abolished
personal life
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References ext-college-class
• https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/ho
w-the-ilo-works/ilo-director-general/former-
directors-general/WCMS_192716/lang--en/in
dex.htm
• https://www.ilo.org/manila/country/
WCMS_124874/lang--en/index.htm
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=mZpyJwevPqc