Sentence examples for labour convention from inspiring English sources

December 18, 2014: The 1999 International Labour Organization Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (Convention No. 182) has at last entered into force today, in Myanmar.

I was astounded at the applause I got after my speech at the Labour convention in Manchester.

The 1930 Forced Labour Convention defines forced labour as "all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily".

The current international regulation (Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006), states that seafarers must receive equal quality of care as the population on shore [7, 8].

The idea that children should not be permitted to do work that is inherently harmful is difficult to contest -- indeed, 177 countries have ratified the International Labour Organization's Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999).

The Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999, (Convention No 182) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) describes it as the "use, procuring or offering of a child for prostitution".

Unions have accused Norwegian of undermining labour conventions, with the ITF likening its pursuit of operating licences to the shipping practice of registering vessels under flags of convenience.

In advance, we're looking at the plan to make sure the company has done a screen looking at local laws and labour conventions.

The ILO said the Qatar government had made substantial progress on its three-year "technical cooperation programme" to ensure "compliance with ratified international labour conventions as well as achieving basic principles and rights related to work in Qatar".

At about the same time, first with two multilateral labour conventions concluded in 1906 and subsequently at the initiative of the International Labour Organisation (established in 1919), a reformist-minded international community embarked upon a variety of collaborative measures directed at the promotion of human rights.

The country has ratified international child labour conventions and set a minimum working age of 15, but the ILO says there are 2 million children between the ages of five and 17 engaged in various forms of work on the island; nearly 9% of the total population.