Tag: International Labour Organization (ILO)

The United States of America and Brazil, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and through the Partnership for Workers’ Rights (PWR), has launched a global campaign to protect workers from excessive heat stress. Led by Brazil’s Ministry of Labour and Employment (MTE), the U.S. Department of Labour (USDOL), and the ILO, the PWR campaign aims to build partnerships, foster social dialogue, conduct research, raise awareness and enhance international cooperation to safeguard workers from the impact of rising temperatures worldwide. “I congratulate the governments of Brazil and the United…

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A new project to help address the root causes of child labour in supply chains has been launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Trade Centre (ITC), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with funding from the European Union (EU). The project, Ending child labour in supply chains: Addressing the root causes of child labour in supply chains through an area-based approach  (also known as the CLEAR Supply Chains Project), was launched at the World of Coffee tradeshow in Copenhagen, Denmark…

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The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), which is a cornerstone of the ILO‘s supervisory system on international labour standards, has published its annual report . The report provides an independent expert analysis of the extent to which each ILO Member State’s law and practice are in conformity with ratified ILO Conventions. It outlines how Member States are fulfilling the obligations they have freely undertaken under the ILO Constitution in relation to international labour standards. It also provides a brief account of its interactive exchange with…

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New research on how artificial intelligence (AI) evaluates the prestige and social value of occupations has been published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), shedding light on the potential for risks of using such methods for sociological and occupational research. The paper, A Technological Construction of Society: Comparing GPT-4 and Human Respondents for Occupational Evaluation in the UK , compares evaluations of occupations made by GPT-4 (a type of Large Language Model (LLM) AI that can recognize and generate text) with those of a high-quality survey undertaken in the United Kingdom.…

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