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Stuart Bell

Better Work to Launch Programme in Bangladesh « Better Work - 0 views

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Bangladesh garments ILO

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  • Stuart Bell on 22 Oct 13
     
    "The International Labour Organization and International Finance Corporation have announced the establishment of a Better Work programme in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. As with its other country programmes, Better Work Bangladesh is a partnership with government, employers, workers, international buyers and other relevant stakeholders. "
Stuart Bell

DFID Private-sector-approach-paper-May2011 - 0 views

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DFID private sector

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  • Stuart Bell on 08 Jun 11
     
    DFID's new private sector policy paper "Our new approach to working with the private sector is about us doing more with and for private enterprise, extending this work in new areas, and doing it better. We want private sector thinking to become as much part of DFID's DNA as our work with charities and governments. The new approach will deliver results for poor people: better job opportunities and incomes; more readily available and affordable finance for households and small businesses; and more accessible, better quality healthcare, schooling and basic services."
Stuart Bell

Factory flaws go live, National, Phnom Penh Post - 0 views

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Cambodia garments better work

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  • Stuart Bell on 17 Mar 14
     
    Factory transparency from Better Work Cambodia The site, created and maintained by the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, will publicly name factories that violate two or more ILO workplace standards."
Stuart Bell

World Development Report 2013: Jobs - 0 views

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World Bank decent work

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  • Stuart Bell on 02 Oct 12
     
    "The World Development Report 2013: Jobs stresses the role of strong private sector led growth in creating jobs and outlines how jobs that do the most for development can spur a virtuous cycle. The report finds that poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empower women to invest more in their children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and as less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs foster diversity and provide alternatives to conflict."
Stuart Bell

Are Current Approaches to Responsible Supply Chain Management Working? - Regional Advis... - 1 views

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better work codes of conduct

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  • Stuart Bell on 18 Aug 10
     
    Blog arguing for a Responsible Supply Chain Management model that creates 'CSR risk free sourcing and investment zones' through collaboration with governments and suporting enforcement, rather than pushing for improved standards through private initiatives and auditing
Kirsten Newitt

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' Conclusions - Paris, 26-27 September 2011 - 0 views

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G20 crisis

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  • To achieve these objectives, we ask our Leaders to consider the following policy recommendations: I – Improve active employment policies, particularly for young people and other vulnerable groups
  • II – Strengthen social protection by establishing social protection floors adapted to each country
  • III – Promote effective application of social and labour rights
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  • IV – Strengthen the coherence of economic and social policies
  • (8) Consolidate employment as a priority of economic policy
  • 9) Preparing our young people to find decent jobs
  • Accordingly, we agree on the following recommendations:
  • (10) Labour market policies for better social inclusion and access to jobs
  • (11) Employment policies informed by the contribution of relevant international organisations
  • Accordingly, we agree on the following recommendations: (15) Develop nationally defined social protection floors with a view to achieving strong, sustainable and balanced economic growth and social cohesion
  • (16) Encourage international organisations to coordinate their actions more effectively to help countries develop nationally determined social protection floors
  • (17) Ensure effective financing for the implementation of nationally determined social protection floors
  • (21) Ensure respect of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
  • (22) Promote international labour standards
  • (26) Fully implement the 2008 Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation
  • (27) Strengthen our policy coherence
  • (28) Further enhance coordination among international organisations
  • we recommend setting up an intergovernmental task force on employment, composed of the G20 representatives, with the contribution of relevant international organisations and consulting social partners as appropriate. The task force will provide input to the G20 Labour and Employment ministerial meeting to be held under the Mexican Presidency in 2012. Its objectives and mandate are set out in the Annex.
Kirsten Newitt

China amending labor law to protect 'contractors' - 0 views

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China labour law

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The number of independent contractors has increased rapidly since the labor contract law was revised in 2007 to provide better protection for employees, said Uzhitu, vice-chairman of the NPC Finance and Economic Committee
  • Under the current law, employers can hire contractors to do temporary, supplementary or backup jobs. The proposed revision creates a clearer definition for these conditions. The bill also includes an article requiring agencies and employers to follow the principle of "equal pay for equal work" when negotiating payment for their contractors.
Kirsten Newitt

Shenzhen trade union promises more direct elections | China Labour Bulletin - 0 views

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China trade unions

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Direct elections at enterprise trade unions will become increasingly commonplace in Shenzhen, the deputy head of the city’s trade union federation, Wang Tongxin, predicted following the highly publicised election of a new trade union chairman at the Omron electronics factory in Shenzhen this weekend.
  • Although relatively few enterprise trade unions have direct elections at the moment, Wang said, the union federation would heavily promote direct elections so that in the future such events “will not be news, nor pioneering, but rather just normal work practice.” The union is already targeting some 163 enterprises in the city, each employing upwards of 1,000 workers, for direct elections over the coming year, he told the Southern Metropolis Daily.
  • The election came about as a direct result of a strike by several hundred workers at the plant two months earlier on 29 March demanding better pay and benefits as well as a more representative and effective trade union at the plant.
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