ABSTRACT
The ILO pursues the goal of ‘decent work’ and promotes a decent work agenda (adopted in 1999), which has four basic ‘pillars’: employment creation, as the principal route out of poverty; rights at work, which empower men and women to escape from poverty; social protection, which safeguards against poverty; and tripartism and social dialogue. The ILO urged the implementation of large-scale co-ordinated response measures to the ongoing pandemic across the following pillars: protecting workers in the workplace and stimulating the economy and employment. Meanwhile, the ILO issued guidelines aimed at supporting the creation of safe, effective, human-centred conditions for restarting workplaces, with a focus on placing peoples’ rights at the centre of environmental, economic and social policies. One of the ILO’s primary functions is the adoption and supervision of conventions and recommendations setting minimum labour standards. Through ratification by member states, conventions create binding obligations to put their provisions into effect.
