Trainings

This ITC-ILO workshop (14-18 May 2018, Turin, Italy) will familiarize participants with the international legal framework for non-discrimination and equal pay for work of equal value - including  pay equity frameworks, job evaluation and a step-by-step programme to promote pay equity with a social dialogue approach. It aims to enable learners to identify possible policy solutions to obstacles in their own country/organizational contexts. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in the ILS Academy plenary lectures, (with interpretation in different languages), featuring internationally renowned and inspiring thinkers and exchange knowledge, ideas and experiences.

The workshop is geared towards staff from governments, parliamentarians, employers/ the private sector, trade unions, civil society and other relevant partners. Specifically, the workshop will: 

• Review pay equity and non-discrimination, including concepts and ILO Instruments with a particular focus on the ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) and the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111); 
• Examine the role of social dialogue in promoting pay equity and policy responses through equal pay initiatives at international and regional levels and good practices; and 
• Take participants through the implementation process and monitoring of equal pay at the workplace and job evaluation free from gender bias.governments, employers/ the private sector, trade unions and other relevant partners.