Republic of Korea ratifies ILO Safety and Health Convention

The Republic of Korea has recently ratified a new ILO Convention, the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health, Convention No. 187. This ratification will bring this important international labour standard designed to promote a “preventive safety and health culture” into force in the next 12 months.

India pushes for worker rights in Gulf

By Barbara Surk and Sebastian Abbot

Oil-rich Gulf nations, already facing labor protests, are getting new pressure from India, which wants them to pay minimum wages for unskilled workers. The move by India – which has 5 million workers in the Gulf, making it the largest source of migrants – is the strongest push yet by workers’ home countries to win better conditions for their citizens. In the past, countries focused on maintaining the flow of billions of dollars workers send home every year, not their welfare.