Reviewing Decent Work
in the SDGs
Vinicius Pinheiro
ILO Office for the UN
23 July 2015
Core decent work SDG targets
Target
Issue
1.3
Social Protection/Social Protection Floors
5.4
Skills for decent jobs
8.2
Productivity
8.3
Informality/SMEs
8.5
Full and productive employment and decent work for all, gender pay gap
8.6
Youth employment
8.7
Child labour / forced labour
8.8
Labour rights / Safe Work / Migrants
8.b
Global Jobs Pact / Global Strategy on Youth Employment
10.4
Inequalities, wages and social protection
16.10
Fundamental freedoms / freedom of association
Decent Work Global Review
Mechanisms
•International Labour
Conference
•ILO Governing Body
•ILO Supervisory Mechanisms
International Labour Conference (ILC)
• International parliament of
labour
▫ 2015: Nearly 4500
delegates from 169 ILO
member states
(governments, employers
and workers), international
organizations and NGOs
• Establishes and adopts
international labour
standards
• Review key social and
labour issues in specialized
committees supported by
technical reports and
statistics (ILOSTAT)
Recent ILC thematic reviews x SDGs
ILC thematic reviews
SDG Target
Transition to formal economy (2015)
8.3, 8.5
SMES, productivity (2015)
8.3
Labour protection (2015)
8.8, 8.5
Application of Labour Standards (annually)
8.8
Forced Labour (2014)
8.7
Sustainable development and green jobs (2013)
8.5, 8.4
Social protection (2012)
1.3
Youth employment (2012)
8.6, 8.5
ILO Governing Body
• ILO Executive body
• Meets three times a year
• Takes decisions on ILO
policy, ILC agenda, ILO
Programme and Budget and
Director-General election
• Composition:
▫ 56 titular members (28
Governments, 14 Employers
and 14 Workers) and 66
deputy members (28
Governments, 19 Employers
and 19 Workers).
ILO Supervisory Mechanisms
• Regular system
▫ Countries report regularly (2-5 years) on the
implementation of the ratified ILO conventions
▫ Reports are examined by the Committee of
Experts (20 eminent jurists) that prepare a
technical report to the be submitted to the
Committee on the Application of Standards (CAS)
• Special procedures
▫ Examine complaints and representations
Reviewing SDG 8…
Global Reviews
Regional
Reviews
National Reviews
In depth
thematic review
at a special
committee
hosted by the ILC
Thank you!