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Quality of employment

This document discusses the development of indicator sheets for measuring child labour and forced labour in the context of quality of employment. It highlights the challenges faced and proposes new indicators for better measurement.

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Quality of employment

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  1. Quality of employment Sub-dimension 1b “Child labour and forced labour” UNECEMeeting of Group of experts on measuring quality of employment Geneva, 11 Sept. 2013

  2. Quick review • Moldova volunteered to develop indicator sheets in sub-dimension 1b due to relevance in the national context and experience in producing such indicators; • 1b 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.

  3. “Easy” indicators • Developing sheets for indicators 1b1, 1b2, 1b3, 1b4, 1b5 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.

  4. Indicators 1b1-1b5 • Key documents : Minimum Age Convention (1973), Worst Form of Child Labour Convention (1999), 18th ICLSresolution (2008); • Additional information: „Global child labour developments: Measuring trends from 2004 to 2008” , ILO, 2010

  5. “Not easy” indicators • Developing the indicator sheets for 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

  6. 1b6-1b7: 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

  7. Better solution As reviewing institution, ILO: • proposed a new indicator: „ 1b6 Percentage of employed who are in forced labour“; • proposed to merge the two indicators on forced labour in one: „1b7 Forced labour among returned migrants”; • elaborated the indicator sheets;

  8. Issues to discuss • To which extent indicators 1b1 to 1b7 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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