| Description |
xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction: Labour standards promoting women workers' rights and gender equality 1 -- 1. How to use this guide 1 -- 2. Gender equality in the 1LO's mandate 3 -- SInternational labour Conventions and Recommendations -- 4. Gender equality, a fundarental human right -- 5. History of standard setting to promote women workers' rights and gender -- eq ality 8 -- 6. Sources of gender equality la,w: International labour standards, -- suDranational law and national law 10 -- 7. Application and enforcement at the national level 1 -- 8. I LO standard setting and otier means of action 13 -- Access to employment 15 -- Accidents 16 -- Advertising for workers 16 -- Affirmative action 17 -- Agricultura and otherruralworerrs 19 -- Atypical work 21 -- B -- Benzene 2 , 23 -- Biological risks 23 -- ,nded labour -- Breastleeding workers 24 -- B aid ving 24 -- Burden of proof 24 -- Call centres 27 -- Car e work I . -- Career breaks 29 -- Career opportinities 30 -- Cash and medical benefits for maternity 31 -- Casual work 2 , 2 -- Chem icals 35 -- Ahildcare and famnily services and facilities 34 -- Ch id labour 36 -- Clandestine work -- Collective bargaining t 40 -- Commercial sexual exploitation 41 -- Computers 2 -- Conditions and benefits of employmient 4 -- Contract compliance -- Cooperatives 45 -- Cultural identity, respect for 4 4 -- D -- Decent work 47 -- Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 48 -- Dependent workers 8 -- Disabilities, workers with n 4, -- D'iscplinarv action -- Discrimination. 50 -- D iis ssal 5 -- Diversity in the workplace -- Division of labour -- Domestic workers 57 -- Early reTirement i. t -- Economic activity -- Economically active polat I on -- Education 2 -- Eld e care -- Employability . -- Emplye -- Employer 6 -- Eployers' organizatios -- Employm en: injury benefit -- TEmplovmnent-intenssive works pnro am.. es -- Employment policy and promotion -- Employment relationship -- Equanli t ofopporiunity and treatment in employn int and occupation 7' -- EuaI remuneration 74 -- Equity 7, -- Export pro essing zones 6.. -- Facilit;es and equipment -- Famioi benefit -- Farnily responsibilities, workers with 80 -- L rmiiy services and facilities 81 -- Fernale-headed households 81 -- Flexibility of labour 82 -- Forced labour 84 -- Freedrrn of association and the ight to organize 86 -- Fundamential principles and rights at work 87 -- Gender 89 -- Gendei analysiis lad planning 90 -- kGfender adnd development 91 -- G(ender equality 91 -- C ender equity 92 -- Gender mainstrearming 92 -- %irD chid labourers 93 -- G ass e ing 94 -- Globalization i 95 -- Grievance procedures... -- H1a8issment and press-ure j99 -- Health during maternity 100 -- "Healith insurance 10 -- SIV A D S 102 -- H home work 104 -- Hours of work 105 -- H oiseor ,i 107 -- H umana resources developmen.t 107 -- Hygiene in the wo rkplace 108 -- ilegi empeloyment ii -- linness in the fa y, leave for -- indigenous and tribal peoples Ill -- Indirect discrimnination 112 -- Informal economny 112 -- nerent/genue requirement of the ob 15 -- :nvalidity benefit 115 -- oJnb description 117 -- job evaluation and classification 117 -- Labour administration 119 -- Labour force 120 -- Labour inspection 21 -- Labour market 122 -- Labour statistics 123 -- Lifelong ! earning 124 -- M arital status 125 -- Maritime labour 125 -- M asculinities i2f -- Maternnit? j y Ieave -- Matermty protection 128 -- Migrant workers 13 -- Millennium Development Goals -- M ines 34 -- Minimum wage 13 -- Mobbing 3 -- Night work 37 -- Non-stanrdard work 38 -- Non-traditional occuations -- Nursing personnel I I -- Occupationa. health services. 141 -- (Occupational safety and heath -- O(ccupational segregation .4t. 4 -- Old-age benefit 14. -- Older womren workers 146 -- Omnbud's offices 148 -- Own-account workers 148 -- Paid educational leave 149 -- Parental leave 149 -- Part-time workers 150 -- Paternity leave 1'2 -- "P a equity . -- Pensions 3 -- Performance appraisal 153 -- Plantation workn rs 1 -- P sitive measures 154 -- Precarious l o k o -- Public employment ser.vices and private eriployment agencies 55 -- Public procurernelnt policies 156 -- Kadiatiaon protection -- RemC edies and sanctions 1 8 -- Remote working 159 -- Representation and voi ce 161 -- Retention of staff 2 -- Rumral wodrk.rs 162 -- Seasonal work -- Selection procedures 163 -- Self-employed workers 163 -- "Sexual harassentir 165 -- Sexual orientation 1 6 . -- Shift work 167 -- Sick Jeavpe 167 -- Sick ess insur ce 169 -- SmaTll and mediur-sized enterprises .169. -- Social dialogue 171 -- "Socia pac 172 -- Social prote tion 72 -- Social sccu tv -- S es 17 6 -- Strucural un erpri3oyment 'A.. :17 -- Survivors' beneit 77 -- 'eachers 179i : -- Teninat on of employme.nt 180 -- ocade unions, gender equality in 18 1l -- Traffichi,ng in. persons 182 -- Thpartism 184 -- Trpartite cons 'tation 185 -- Underemployment -- Underground work -- Unemployment -- Unemployment benefit . -- Unpaid work -- Violence at work, gender-based 1 -- Vocational guidance i92 -- Vocational training 92 -- White lead (painting) -- Women in development -- Womerrs empowerment 9 -- Women's entrepreneurship 195 -- Work-famiiy balance 1 -- Work-life balance , 198 -- Workers on temporary contracts -- Workers' organizations 9 1 -- Working time 199 -- Youth employment 2 -- Bibliography 03 -- Further resources .0 -- ILO web sites 207 -- CD-ROM resources. 208 -- Further reading 2 |
| Summary |
"Arranged alphabetically by topic, it focuses primarily on States' and employers' obligations and workers' rights as regards equality between men and women, enshrined in the ILO's body of international labour standards (Conventions and recommendations). It also refers to other relevant develoments and trends in international law (for example, United Nations instruments), supranational law (for instance, European Community directives), and national legislation and practice" -- p.1 |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 203-206 |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation.
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Sex discrimination in employment.
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Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation.
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Women's rights.
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| Author |
International Labour Office.
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| LC no. |
2007481922 |
| ISBN |
9789221196228 |
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