BEU, Alm.del - 2018-19 (1. samling) - Bilag 294: Indbydelse til ILO's Arbejdskonference, fra beskæftigelsesministeren

Beskæftigelsesudvalget 2018-19 (1. samling)
BEU Alm.del Bilag 294
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The Minister for Employment

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Danemark

15 February 2019

Convocation of the lO8th Session of the International Labour Conference

(Geneva, 10-21 June 2019) and transmission of the report of the Global Commission

on the Future at Work

Dear Sir,

I refer to my letter dated 24 July 2018 informing you of the arrangements for the

International Labour Organziation (ILD) Centenary and seeking your engagement in the

planned activities. lt is now my great pleasure to inform you that the lO8th Session of the

International Labour Conference will open this year on Monday, 10 June and dase on

Friday, 21 June. It will be held at the Palais des Nations and at ILO headquarters in

Geneva, Switzerland.

The lO8th Session of the Conference will bethe high point of the ILD Centenary

celebrations, providing an exceptianal opportunity for our Organization to look back on its

rich 100-year history of achievements and to prepare for its future. With that in mmd, instead

of my usual thematic report, I am transmilling the report of the Global Commission an the

Future of Work to the Conference for discussion in plenary. I am therefore pleased to share

with you the enciosed copy of the report, which can be also accessed at the following link

www.ilo.org/brighterfuture.

The report was launched on 22 January 2019 in Geneva with the participation of the

Global Commission’s Co-chairs, H.E. Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of

South Africa and H.E. Mr Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden, as well as members of

the Commission. The event marked the opening of the ILD’s Centenary year and was the

culmination of a process that began in 2015 with my report to the International Labour

Conference on the Future of Work Centenary Initiative.

The report of the Global Commission on the Future of Work constitutes a resource for

the LO, for the Governments, Employers and Workers of its member States, for the multilateral

system and for the wider public. It provides much food for thought as the ILD pursues its

mandate for social justice in the rapidly evolving circumstances of the world of work.

The documents mentioned in this efter are being forwarded only to the

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of the original.

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As proposed in my letter of 24 July 2018, ali member States are flow invited to

organize national tripartite dialogues on the Global Commission’s report prior to its

consideration at the Cofiference in June this year. The results of those discussions will

undoubtedly enrich the Conference deliberations.

We encourage you to involve your country’s employers’ and workers’ organizations, to

whom copies of this communication are being sent, in the planning and implementation of the

dialogues. You may wish to invite contributions from other interested actors universities,

think tanks, enterprises, NGOs who can add much value to the process. If appropriate, such

discussions could form part of the centenary evefits that may be envisaged ifl your country.

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A number of Heads of State and Government will address the theme of the future of

work in the Conference plenary. Details concernifig arrangements for these visits will be

provided in due course.

The Conference will also discuss an item related to the Future ofWork initiative with a

view to the adoption of an important outcome document. A draft will be prepared and made

available following intensive consultations with coflsUtuents between February and May,

taking into account their responses to the Report of the Global Commission on the Future of

Work. It will be submifted to the Conference for discussion in a Committee of the Whole and

is expected to play a key role in orienting the Organization in the future.

Conference Accreditation Formalities

Member States are required to ensure that their national delegations to the Conference

are fully tripartite and balanced as regards the number of advisers accompanying the

respective delegates representing the governments, employers and workers.

Likewise, member States are called on to make every effort to achieve gender parity

in their delegations. In this respect, the enciosed infographic shows that women accounted

for 33.3 per cent of participants at the 1 O7th Session of the Conference in 2018, while 11.4

per cent of delegations did not have any women in ieadership positions. i urge you to spare

no effort to improve this situation and hopefully achieve gender parity in your national

delegation in 2019.

The accreditation of Conference participants will once again be done through a

password-protected online accreditation system which will be activated

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April. At that point,

access codes will be sent to each member State. I would be grateful if the credentials of your

country’s tripartite delegation could be deposited with the Office, through the online

accreditation system, by Monday, 20 May 2019.

Travel Arranpements

Delegations requiring visas should contact the Swiss consular seMces directly, as

early as possible, in order to obtain the visas required for anyone inciuded in the credentials.

Please note that the ILD does not provide participants with insurance coverage for

accident or iilness while traveiling to or from Geneva or during the Conference. It is therefore

essential that alt participants ensure that they have adequate insurance coverage in respect

of ilIness and accident before traveiling to Geneva.

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Conference Website

Further information will be posted on the Conference website (www.ilo.org/ilc) as it

becomes available. In the meantime, the Official Meetings, Documentation and Relations

Department (tel. +41 22 799 7732, [email protected]) can provide any information you may

require concerning the lO8th Session of the Conference.

The International Labour Office boks forward to ensuring that the 1 O8th Session of the

International Labour Conference will empower the Organization to respond effectively to the

transformative changes in the world of work. I count on your country’s active engagement,

both through the organization of national tripartite diabogues on the Commission’s report and

through participation in the Conference proceedings. Your contribution can help to chart a

course for ILO action to achieve a future of work with social justice.

Yours sincerely,

7iÀr

Guy Ryder

Director-General