Course Details:
| Course Title | Intenational Training Programmes on International Labour Standards and Promotion of Gender Equality at the Workplace |
| Course Aim | The programme aims 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. |
| Course Objective | · To provide a conceptual understanding about the international labour standards in the world of work. · To understand the various international labour standards/international instruments and good practices on gender equality. · To sensitize the participants about the existing legal and national polices on promotion of gender equality at the workplace. · 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 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 work: conceptual issues · Introduction to International Labour Standards · Gender and labour laws · International instruments/international labour standards and best practices on gender equality · National legislations and policies on promoting workplace equality: cross country perspectives · Care concerns in Employment Laws · Effective labour administration in a changing work environment. · Preparation of Project Reports |
| Methodology | The course will be highly participative in nature. Lectures by highly qualified team of faculty members of the institute from different disciplinary backgrounds and external experts comprising of extremely distinguished academicians, policy makers and other experts. The lectures will be complemented by individual and group learning activities, group discussions, audio-visual presentations, case studies, experience sharing, country specific project work and study tours. |
| Date | From 05-08-2019 to 23-08-2019 |
| Training Details | International Training Programmes |
| Course Overview | Intenational Training Programmes on International Labour Standards and Promotion of Gender Equality at the Workplace |
| Course Director | Dr. Ellina Samantroy Jena |
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