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Workplace compliance monitoring

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30 October, 2014At the end of October IndustriALL affiliates in the Philippines united in a trailblazing effort on monitoring workplace compliance of labor standards in the country. Unions will play a major role as the labour law compliance system is implemented through joint assessment, compliance visit and occupational safety and health standards investigation.

IndustriALL Philippine affiliates participated in a two-days skills training on workplace compliance monitoring held on 28-29 October at Antipolo City, Philippines. The training was designed to enhance the capacity of trade unionist to monitor and detect labor standards violations at the workplace and to become more familiar with the new labor compliance framework. The activity was a response to the assessment of the ILO on the lack of capacity, not only of the government but by workers and employers to monitor compliance of standards at the workplace.

Presenting international labor standards and the role of trade unions, ILO representative Arun Kumar highlighted the importance of collective bargaining in ensuring that key provisions protecting labor rights and social standards are in place. A resource person from the Department of Labor and Employment stressed that the new labor compliance system, a mix of developmental and regulatory approaches, seeks to address existing rigidities on labor laws compliance while ensuring decent and productive work.

The workshop produced concrete action plans on policy intervention, dialogue, plant-level monitoring, capacity-building and data-gathering. A common proposal was the IndustriALL Philippine affiliates’ intention to engage in a tripartite industrial peace council as a platform of intervention particularly on sector-specific concerns. The participants to the training also agreed to form a monitoring team network among themselves to share information and experiences relative to workplace monitoring.