|
| |
| | International Labour Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Historically, one of the functions the ILO has performed has been the establishment of international standards for workers' conditions, which have then become the basis for trade union and other activism in individual countries. | | | These have all been ratified by a majority of the member states, and are known as the international labour standards. | | | Every year, the International Labour Conference's Committee on the Application of Standards examine a number of suspected breaches of ILO labour standards. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labour_Organization
(708 words)
|
|
| |
| | International Labour Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These have all been ratified by a majority of the member states, and are known as the international labour standards. | | | Historically, one of the functions the ILO has performed has been the establishment of international standards for workers' conditions, which have then become the basis for trade union and other activism in individual countries. | | | Every year, the International Labour Conference's Committee on the Application of Standards examine a number of suspected breaches of ILO labour standards. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labour_Organization
(782 words)
|
|
| |
| | International Labour Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These have all been ratified by a majority of the member states, and are known as the international labour standards. | | | Every year, the International Labour Conference's Committee on the Application of Standards examine a number of suspected breaches of ILO labour standards. | | | Historically, one of the functions the ILO has performed has been the establishment of international standards for workers' conditions, which have then become the basis for trade union and other activism in individual countries. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labor_Organization
(588 words)
|
|
| |
| | Choike - Global labour rights |
| | Multinationals, however, often outsource production and claim not to be responsible for labour standards in the factories of their subcontractors, while they still profit from the low labour costs and the disrespect for basic human rights in the workplace. | | | It describes the race to the bottom as governments in the region compete for foreign investment by lowering labour standards, often restricting union rights and offering incentives to foreign firms that are so costly that they are greatly limiting the benefits of the new investment to the national or local economy (pdf-file). | | | The ILO formulates international labour standards in the form of conventions and recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues. |
|
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1872.html
(7925 words)
|
|
| |
| | Monthly Labor Review: The future of ILO standards. (International Lab... @ HighBeam Research |
| | ILO policy now states that all of its activities--research, technical cooperation, and policy advice--must have as their principal objective the promotion of the values contained in the Constitutions and the standards adopted by the constituents. | | | Often called the "International Labor Code," these standards have helped form the basis for many social and labor laws in most of the countries that have gained their independence since 1919--that is, most countries in the world. | | | In short, ILO standards have provided inspiration for labor legislation worldwide--including that of emerging states of Africa and Asia--and are used as a point of reference for countries trying to change their social and labor systems (such as those in Eastern Europe and Latin America). |
|
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15830089&refid=holomed_1
(5453 words)
|
|
| |
| | FCIC - The Handbook - National Consumer Organizations |
| | Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards is a nonprofit regulatory organization that fosters professional standards in personal financial planning so that the public values, has access to and benefits from competent financial planning. | | | Consumer Alert's mission is to inform the public about the consumer benefits of competitive enterprise and to expose the flawed economic, scientific and risk data that underlie certain public policies. | | | The Consumer Protection unit is charged by AARP to examine those consumer problems and issues that impact the financial security of people 50 years of age and older, and to help its members protect themselves from marketplace fraud and deception. |
|
http://www.consumeraction.gov/resprt2.shtml
(5453 words)
|
|
| |
| | News Release: International Labor Organization and World Trade Organization Need to Strengthen International Labor Standards |
| | She served on the National Academies Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards in 2002-03 and, in 1999, as chair of the Task Force on Civil Society of the State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. | | | Ensuring that globalization and labor standards are complementary also means responding to the market distortions created when governments—by law or by looking the other way—repress standards with the goal of increasing exports or attracting foreign investment. | | | The authors recommend that the ILO retain the central role for promoting and enforcing labor standards and that it receive increased political and financial support to do so as long as it demonstrates that it is effective. |
|
http://www.iie.com/publications/newsreleases/elliott-freeman.htm
(1431 words)
|
|
| |
| | International Labor Organization |
| | Mission: "The ILO formulates international labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues. | | | ILO’s Director General announced that the US Department of Labor will be committing $13 million to support social and economic reconstruction, poverty eradication legislation, and employment and education policies, which according to the ILO are all vital to ending the crisis of child soldiers, “the worst form of child labor. | | | ILO has launched a campaign to encourage all countries to supply social security programs for all of their citizens, claiming that it will further human security, dignity, equity and social justice, as well as provide a foundation for political inclusion, empowerment and the development of democracy. |
|
http://www.ngowatch.org/ilo.htm
(212 words)
|
|
| |
| | Professional Organizations Higher Education |
| | These direct website links to most of the national subject area organizations in education provide access to a variety of professional development opportunities are available through participation in such organizations, including professional conferences/seminars/workshops, journals, books, videos, software, newsletters, national standards, study programs, online courses, network with colleagues, notice of current news/issues/legal, and career opportunities. | | | CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice. | | | TESOL advances standards for professional preparation and employment, continuing education, and student programs, links groups worldwide to enhance communication among language specialists, produces high-quality programs, services, and products, and promotes advocacy to further the profession. |
|
http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/hrd/highered/prof_org.htm
(692 words)
|
|
| |
| | The ILO and enforcement of core labor standards |
| | Although the International Labor Organization (ILO) has been persistently belittled for encouraging the incorporation of labor standards into trade agreements and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), ILO has recently become popular. | | | Although ILO is now in vogue there are indications that ILO's push for labor standards, particularly in the arena of child labor, is often received in a superficial manner and is indeed frequently resisted by developing-countries' governments. | | | The most effective and sustainable means of improving implementation of core labor standards is to provide technical and financial assistance to countries that want to improve enforcement but lack the resources to do it |
|
http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC8401.htm
(336 words)
|
|
| |
| | USDA |
| | International Organization for Standardization --The International Organization for Standardization is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies. | | | Codex Alimentarius-- Codex is an international organization that develops food standards, codes of practice and other materials for use world wide. | | | These national standards bodies collaborate to develop international standards that are intended to aid manufacturers, consumers, and the general public in manufacturing, purchasing, or using products, processes or procedures that conform to a consensus standard. |
|
http://www.ams.usda.gov/international
(342 words)
|
|
| |
| | Canadian Standards Association - 59:10173-10180 |
| | According to the applicant, the Canadian Standards Association is an independent, not-for-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors selected by the membership, providing integrated services in the fields of standards development and conformity assessment. | | | The organization started out in 1919 as the Canadian Engineering Standards Association (CESA), which was changed in 1944 to the present name. | | | The applicant states that CSA is an independent, not-for-profit membership association, without share capital, incorporated under the laws of Canada in 1919, engaged in developing national standards and providing a certification service for manufacturers wishing to have their products certified as complying with national standards or standards of foreign countries. |
|
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=FEDERAL_REGISTER&p_id=13351
(3733 words)
|
|
| |
| | INDYEV86-e |
| | From the Canadian Standards Association we have with us today four people: Ellen Pekilis, Project Manager; Jim Savary, Department of Economics, Glendon College, York University; Gérald Lavallée, Executive Director, Cable Television Standards Foundation; and Suzanne Morin, the Canadian representative on the International Standards Organization ad hoc privacy group. | | | Let me then emphasize that while the chair introduced us all as belonging to specific organizations, we are all here as representing the Canadian Standards Association and not any other organization with which we may be affiliated. | | | CSA International is an independent, private sector, not-for-profit organization supported by over 8,000 members and a network of offices across Canada, the United States, and around the world. |
|
http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfoComDoc/36/1/INDY/Meetings/Evidence/indyev86-e.htm
(9252 words)
|
|
| |
| | Encyclopedia: Consumer organizations |
| | The current standards on mandatory labelling, in developed countries, have at least in part been shaped by past lobbying by consumer groups. | | | Consumer organizations may operate by campaigning or lobbying; they may be single-issue (for example the British CAMRA, which campaigned with great success against keg beer and for real ale), or set themselves up as consumer watchdogs such as the Consumers' Association in the UK. | | | The aim of consumer organizations may be to establish and to attempt to enforce consumer rights. |
|
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Consumer-organizations
(9252 words)
|
|
| |
| | Document Management and Retention for Professional Services Using the Microsoft Office System |
| | Organizations face increased risk due to lost or unsaved documents and a lack of corporate quality control and enforcement of standards and guidelines. | | | Professional services organizations recognize the critical need for a good document management and retention solution, but they might find implementing such a solution to be prohibitively time-consuming or expensive. | | | A professional services document management and retention solution, part of the Microsoft focus on Service Delivery Management for Professional Services, can help enforce an organization's records management policies while enabling client teams to easily store, retrieve, and share diverse information related to client engagements. |
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/showcase/psdocretention/default.mspx
(681 words)
|
|
| |
| | A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections - National Information Standards Organization (NISO) |
| | Effective collection management includes standardized measures of collection usefulness, including consistent usage data that can be evaluated over time to gauge the continued relevancy of the collection to users, as well as measures to evaluate the continued usefulness of the collection in supporting the organization's mission. | | | The decisions of which metadata standard(s) to adopt, what levels of description to apply, and so on must be made within the context of the organization's purpose for digitizing the collection, the users and intended usage, approaches adopted within the community, and the desired level of access. | | | By building consensus around the characteristics of good objects, organizations will be able to more effectively write contracts with vendors who create such objects, to compare vendors' prices, and to define and narrow preservation options required for migrating or emulating the objects in the future. |
|
http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html
(681 words)
|
|
| |
| | The International Labor Organization (ILO) (from labor and industrial law) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | It is in this sense, for example, that one speaks of “organized labour.&; In a more special and technical sense, however, labour means any valuable service rendered by a human agent in the production of wealth, other than accumulating and providing capital or assuming the risks that are a normal part of business undertakings. | | | U.S.-based organization conducting research and educational programs in the field of employment and labor affairs. | | | These standards are submitted to member nations for ratification, and, once the standards… |
|
http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?tocId=203545
(944 words)
|
|
| |
| | Chinese accounting standards |
| | KASB(Korea Accounting Standards Board)/KAI(Korea Accounting Institute) KASB is a private sector organization in charge of establishing Korean accounting standards and KAI as a research center supports KASB in its activities. | | | U.S. Cost Accounting Standards Board The CASB is part of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and makes, promulgates, and modifies cost accounting standards with which government contractors must comply. | | | In contrast to a Western balance sheet, Chinese accounting standards do not include an accounting of the debt s that a corporation holds, and are less suitable for management control than for accounting for tax purposes. |
|
http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Chinese_accounting_standards.html
(690 words)
|
|
| |
| | Canadian Standards Association |
| | The Canadian Standards Association division is the organization that helps the production and publication of standards. | | | CSA is forbidden from writing standards; instead, it helps industry experts, consumer advocated, and other external representatives write standards. | | | Despite the name, CSA is in fact an international organization, with offices in the United States, Mexico, Europe, and the Far East. |
|
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/canadian_standards_association
(360 words)
|
|
| |
| | Introit Systems |
| | The mere prospect of a standards organization trying to be global makes acceptance difficult when trying to satisfy Asian, European and US interests along with participating companies internal agendas. | | | RNTD will be a world wide standard for electronic component contents once the Japanese and European standards organizations converge on a common data content standard. | | | A RosettaNet solution may provide a lower cost B2B solution with the unified data content standards and PIP process when compared to EDI. |
|
http://www.introitsys.com/articles/ebn_full.html
(360 words)
|
|
| |
| | Professional Organizations in Anthropology |
| | Over the years, a number of professional organizations have been formed to meet the needs of anthropologists for scholarly assistance, communication of research, development of ethical standards, and to represent anthropological concerns to the public. | | | Many of these organizations offer student memberships at reduced rates. | | | This is the parent organization for all anthropologists, its annual meeting covers the four traditional subdisciplines of Anthropology and Applied Anthropology. |
|
http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/grad/proforgan.html
(824 words)
|
|
| |
| | HCI-SITES: ORGANIZATIONS |
| | Complete web usability, quality standards, testing, evaluation, auditing and implementation professionals. | | | We help you profit from your web presence by reaching, attracting, converting and retaining maximum users cost effectively through usability, best practices, w3c quality standards and usage centered web designing. | | | ACD is currently the only professional organization that addresses the multifaceted and continually changing nature of design. |
|
http://www.hcibib.org/hci-sites/ORGANIZATIONS.html
(1225 words)
|
|
| |
| | Information Services of the International Labour Organization: A 75-Year History - 61st IFLA General Conference |
| | To this end, the ILO Central Library plays an important role in the development of information standards and tools which can be used not o nly by the ILO's own information services, but also by information managers in ministries of labour and in employers' and workers' organizations in the ILO's 171 member States. | | | The International Labour Organization (ILO) was created in 1919 at the end of the First World War, the need for such an organization having first been advocated in the 19th century by two industrial ists, Robert Owen of England and Daniel Legrand of France. | | | The International Labour Of fice is the Organization's permanent secretariat, employing some 1,900 officials of over 110 nationalities in its Geneva headquarters and 40 field offices worldwide, plus 600 experts engaged in techn ical co-operation projects. |
|
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla61/61-frie.htm
(1225 words)
|
|
| |
| | International Labour Organization |
| | In judging the organization's impact, it is important to take into account that member states which have not ratified conventions may still alter their law or practice in response to the principles established by the ILO, often as a result of the sophisticated ILO system of monitoring its standards. | | | Furthermore, these problems must be addressed at the international level, because each nation acting individually would be at a competitive disadvantage if it imposed higher standards unilaterally. | | | The Organization's basic structure is comprised of the International Labour Conference (the "Conference"), the Governing Body, and The International Labour Office (the "Office,"), which is headed by the Director-General. |
|
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/librarydevelop/ilob.html
(1225 words)
|
|
| |
| | The International Labour Organisation Correspondent in Romania |
| | The ILO was created in 1919 primarily for the purpose of adopting international standards to cope with the problem of labor conditions involving "injustice, hardship, and privation". | | | International labor standards are essentially expressions of international tripartite agreement on these matters. | | | A national tripartite seminar was organized on 18-19 June 2003 with the participation of governmental agencies, employers' and workers' organizations, NGOs, universities, and international agencies to update the National Plan of Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Romania based on the experience acquired during the implementation of the IPEC Country Programme, 2000-2003. |
|
http://www.un.ro/ilo.html
(2991 words)
|
|
| |
| | Human Rights for Workers Bulletin August 9, 1999 |
| | Among his other pro-ILO efforts, Clinton promised to ask Congress for $25 million to support its new declaration on core labor standards and $10 million to give U.S. bilateral assistance to governments seeking to raise those standards. | | | It should also remove pressure on the U.S. governments to use trade agreements (e.g., "fast track," WTO) to deal with labor standards. | | | Never before in its 80-year history has the International Labor Organization been as popular as it is today. |
|
http://www.senser.com/9-6.htm
(1085 words)
|
|
| |
| | Organization |
| | As we gain greater knowledge of the scope of applicability of the underlying technology and standards being developed, and begin to understand the structure and culture of the various adopter communities, we expect that we will have to make continued evolutionary changes to both the mission and organization of the Open Archives Initiative. | | | The fundamental technological framework and standards that are developing to support this work are, however, independent of the both the type of content offered and the economic mechanisms surrounding that content, and promise to have much broader relevance in opening up access to a range of digital materials. | | | As a result, the Open Archives Initiative is currently an organization and an effort explicitly in transition, and is committed to exploring and enabling this new and broader range of applications. |
|
http://www.openarchives.org/organization
(341 words)
|
|
| |
| | REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE |
| | By giving life to core labor standards, by acting effectively to lift the burden of debt, by putting a more human face on the world trading system and the global economy, by ending the worst forms of child labor, we will be giving our children the 21st century they deserve. | | | That is why in the balanced budget I submitted to our Congress this year I've asked for $25 million to help create a new arm of the ILO, to work with developing countries to put in place basic labor standards -- protections, safe work places, the right to organize. | | | And the international organizations charged with monitoring and providing for rules of fair trade, and enforcement of them, seem to take a very long time to work their way to the right decision, often too late to affect the people who have been disadvantaged. |
|
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a376808790e9c.htm
(3545 words)
|
|
| |
| | New Page 4 |
| | International standards - International Organization for Standardisation (ISO), Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Word Health Organization (WHO), etc. | | | The Standards are prepared by some 100 Technical Committees composed of about 800 members from various sectors of the economy. | | | Tanzania Standards are the national documents prepared through consensus of all interested parties i.e. |
|
http://www.tptanzania.co.tz/tbs_body.html
(1013 words)
|
|
|
