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Emerging Perspectives on Gender, Labour Laws and International Labour Standards

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Course Title Emerging Perspectives on Gender, Labour Laws and International Labour Standards
Course Aim The programme endeavours to sensitize the participants about the inequalities prevalent in the world of work and the challenges faced by women in the labour market. It would also enable the participants in developing an understanding about the existing legal instruments and international labour standards for ensuring equality at workplace and promoting workers’ rights based on a model of social justice. The programme also aims to address the larger questions on intersection of paid work and unpaid unpaid/care work and recognition of care as a right that need to be incorporated into the policy framework for facilitating women’s employment and sustenance in the labour market.
Course Objective
  • To provide an overview of gender and the labour market.
  • To analyse gender inequalities and discriminatory practices with regard to access to labour market, wages, working conditions, employment security, etc.
  • To understand the gendered vulnerabilities and intersection of paid work and unpaid/care work, challenges in reconciling paid work and family responsibilities that leads women to precarious forms of employment that remain outside the purview of available legal and policy responses.
  • To sensitize the participants about the existing legal instruments and national polices on promotion of gender equality at the workplace.
  • To understand the various international labour standards/international instruments and good practices on gender equality. To discuss about strategies of promotion of rights to fair/decent work and care within the framework of employment law and policies that would address the larger question of equality of opportunity and women’s employment and sustenance in the labour market.
Course Profile Gender and labour laws, gender inequalities in the labour market, national legislations and policies on promoting workplace equality, international instruments/international labour standards on gender equality
Methodology Lectures, discussions, audio-visual presentations, case studies and experience sharing.
Participation Level Government Officials, Union Leaders from Central Trade Unions and civil society representatives. We will appreciate, if participants from reserved categories (SC/ST) are also nominated.
Date From 19-06-2017 to 23-06-2017
Training Details Domestic Training Programmes
Venue V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, Noida
Course Director Dr. Ellina Samantroy Jena