Quality of employment Subdimension 1 b Child labour
Quality of employment Sub-dimension 1 b “Child labour and forced labour” UNECE Meeting of Group of experts on measuring quality of employment Geneva, 11 Sept. 2013
Quick review �Moldova volunteered to develop indicator sheets in sub-dimension 1 b due to relevance in the national context and experience in producing such indicators; � 1 b indicators help measure the progress to the one of the greatest goals set by the human civilization: abolishing work which violates human rights and has negative effects on human development.
“Easy” indicators �Developing sheets for indicators 1 b 1, 1 b 2, 1 b 3, 1 b 4, 1 b 5 was easy because there are ILO conventions, resolutions and great publications on measuring child labour; �In 2009 the National Bureau of Statistics conducted a Child Labour Survey.
Indicators 1 b 1 -1 b 5 �Key documents : Minimum Age Convention (1973), Worst Form of Child Labour Convention (1999), 18 th ICLS resolution (2008); �Additional information: „Global child labour developments: Measuring trends from 2004 to 2008” , ILO, 2010
“Not easy” indicators �Developing the indicator sheets forced labour was more challenging; �There are no clear standards set as in the case of child labour; �Still, it wasn’t very difficult as NBS tested in 2008 a methodological frame developed by the ILO; �Key information: “Hard to see, harder to count”, ILO, 2012
1 b 6 -1 b 7: Searching for solutions �It was difficult to define indicators as the phenomena is very complex; �Target population: “employed or recently -employed migrants” was difficult to define; �We spend allot of time to find solutions and still were not very happy about the result
Better solution As reviewing institution, ILO: �proposed a new indicator: „ 1 b 6 Percentage of employed who are in forced labour“; �proposed to merge the two indicators on forced labour in one: „ 1 b 7 Forced labour among returned migrants”; �elaborated the indicator sheets;
Issues to discuss �To which extent indicators 1 b 1 to 1 b 7 should be “optional” when measuring quality of employment in a country? �Should hazardous conditions be considered as such, regardless the age of the child? �How to define the “returned migrant”, for comparability in time and space?
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