Ratified Conventions

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The International Labour Organization sets out international labour standards and clearly defines the basic principles and rights at work in a number of conventions and related recommendations. The Ministry of Labour acts as the vehicle for ratifying these conventions on the behalf of the Government of Barbados and therefore represents a legally binding agreement to meet the standards established in the conventions. 

To date, the following conventions have been ratified and form the basis for  labour legislation in Barbados and a number of the Ministry of Labour's policies and programmes:    

 

 

NUMBER	NAME	YEAR OF RATIFICATION
C 029	Forced Labour Convention, 1930	1967
C 081	Labour Inspection Convention, 1947	1967
C 087	Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, 1948	1967
C 094	Labour Clauses (Public Contracts) Convention, 1949	1967
C 095	Protection of Wages Convention, 1949	1967
C 097	Migration of Employment Convention (Revised), 1949	1967
C 098	Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949	1967
C 100	Equal Emuneration Convention, 1951	1974
C 102	Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952	1972
C 105	Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957	1967
C 111	Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958	1974
C 115	Radiation Protection Convention, 1960	1967
C118	Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962	1974
C 122	Employment Policy Convention, 1964	1976
C 128	Invalidity, Old Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967	1972
C 135	Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971	1977
C 138	Minimum Age Convention, 1973	2000
C 144	Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976	1983
C 147	Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976	1994
C 172	Working Conditions (Hotels and Restaurants) Convention, 1991	1997
C 182	Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999	2000

 

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