Social Dialogue and Labour Relations

The aim of this training programme was to strengthen the capacities of the ILO constituents and labour relations practitioners in India more broadly, in the areas of labour relations and social dialogue. OBJECTIVES Through this training participants were be able to: • Analyze labour relations and social dialogue topics, including practices, trends, methodologies; • Mainstream gender equality through social dialogue processes; • Explain and compare international labour standards, including how they are adopted, promoted, applied and supervised; their content, reasons for their development, and how they are used today; • Demonstrate understanding of the preparation and development of the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) and an understanding of the process for developing the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF); • Understand and illustrate the fundamentals principles and benefits of the implementation of collective bargaining, grievance handling and workplace cooperation; • Assess labour relations and social dialogue issues, including negotiation, interpretation, and administration of collective agreements, prevention and dispute resolution, workplace cooperation procedures and committees, grievance handling mechanisms and consequently better perform their functions; • Apply tools and methodologies for effective labour-management relations at different levels and forms of social dialogue; • Illustrate the concepts and practice of social dialogue at all appropriate levels, i.e. international, national and enterprise levels). • Highlight the relevance of social dialogue in protecting and promoting the rights of informal workers. CONTENT • Introduction To Social Dialogue • Introduction To The International Labour Standards • International Labour Standards For Social Dialogue • Collective Bargaining • Labour Dispute Resolution • Workplace Cooperation • Grievance Handling • Gender and Social Dialogue • Social Dialogue and Informal Workers • Social Dialogue And Global Supply Chains • Decent Work Country Programmes And Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) • National Framework for social dialogue • National collective bargaining machinery and practices • National legislation on freedom of association • National framework for labour dispute resolution • National framework for grievance handling • National framework for workplace cooperation • National Framework for grievance handling NUMBER OF HOURS: The course took place over a period of 4 weeks and covered 120 hours.