Since 1959, Canada has ratified the ILO fundamental
labour standards conventions except for No. 98 — Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining and No. 138 — Minimum Age.
These fundamental
labour standards conventions provide the framework within which wages and working conditions are determined in member countries that have ratified the conventions.
Not exact matches
The International
Labour Organization (ILO), the agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues, is seeking ratification of its eight conventions covering fundamental labour standards by
Labour Organization (ILO), the agency of the United Nations that deals with
labour issues, is seeking ratification of its eight conventions covering fundamental labour standards by
labour issues, is seeking ratification of its eight
conventions covering fundamental
labour standards by
labour standards by 2015.
According to the National Union of Public and General Employees, ratification of the
convention allowed Canada to inspect foreign ships arriving in Canadian ports to determine their conformity with modern
labour standards that are already being applied on Canadian vessels.
That regional agreements must proceed on the basis that negotiations do not violate relevant international
standards such as those articulated in the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, International
Labour Organisation
Convention 169 and the Biodiversity
Convention and other human rights
conventions.