International Labour Organisation — its influence in bringing changes in national legislations

A shirt made in Tirupur, stitched by workers paid less than a shirt made in Bangladesh, is sold in the same shop in Europe. If each country is free to let labour conditions fall, every country is pushed to do so. That is the problem an international body for labour had to solve, and it explains why an organisation in Geneva has something to say about the law that governs a factory in Navi Mumbai.

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The International Labour Organisation, set up in 1919, makes international labour standards through Conventions and Recommendations; it cannot legislate for India, but India’s labour law has been shaped by those standards through ratification, Article 253 of the Constitution and the Directive Principles.

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