C001 Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919

 ü Vande Matram! India always supported International Law since the era of British Rule. For that India had signed many treaties and conventions. So you are welcome in the series of Treaties Ratified by India.

ü Let’s talk about a convention related to labor which is ratified by the Government of India with the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

ü Since 1919, means since the time of the inception of ILO, India is implementing labor laws in its territory.

ü C-001 Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 is the very first convention of ILO.

ü It was adopted in General Conference held in Washington and organized by the US government on Dt. 29^th October 1919.

ü Due to this convention the limit of maximum hours of working was fixed, which is 8 hours per day and 48 hours per week.

ü And hence the even today in all companies across the world the time of one working shift is 8 hours.

ü Convention is currently open for denunciation.

ü In 1919, Narayan Malhar Joshi who was the leader of the Indian Trade Union represented the labor of India in the ILO General Conference held in Washington.

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C-127 Maximum Weight Convection 1967

 Vande Matram! In this article, I am sharing some one-liners about C-127 Maximum Weight Convention, 1967.

·        This is a labor welfare-related treaty and is concerned with permissible weight to be carried by one worker.

·        Date of Adoption: 28th June 1967

·        Date of coming into force: 10th March 1970

·        Place: Geneva

·        Passed in General Conference of International Labour Organisation (ILO)

·        It was the 51^st session of ILO conducted on 7^th June 1967

·        As per the C-127 convention of ILO, “Manual transport of loads” means any transport in which the weight of the load is wholly by one worker, it covers the lifting and putting down of the loads.

·        As per the C-127 convention of ILO, “Regular Manual Transport of Loads” means which is continuously and principally devoted to the manual transport of the loads, or which normally includes, even though intermittently, the manual transport of loads.

·        As per the C-127 convention of ILO, “young worker” means a worker under 18 years of age.

·        This convention applies to all branches of economic activities.

·        As per Article 3 of C-127, if carrying loads is creating serious health hazards to a person then such person shall not be permitted to do the job of manual transportation of loads.

·        Article 5 of C-127 makes it compulsory that a worker who is assigned a job of manual transport of loads on regular basis should be trained adequately to avoid any health hazards as well as accidents.

·        Article 7 of C-127 limits the number of women and young workers for manual transport of heavy loads, and if they are assigned for this work then they must carry substantially lesser load permissible to carry for adult male workers.

·        The ratification of the members must be registered with the Director-General of ILO

·        After ratification, the member nation should implement the provisions of this C-127 by way of laws and acts as per the national practice within 12 months from such ratification.

·        India ratified the C-127 convention of ILO on 26^th March 2010 and it is now in force in India.

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MoU between India and Kyrgyz

 

Date of MoU: Signed and came into force on 11^th October 2021.

It is signed for bilateral cooperation. It is a bilateral type as only two nations are involved through their respective governments.

Basically by this MoU India will grant aid to Kyrgyz for the socio-economical development of Kyrgyz. By this MoU projects related to the socio-economic development of Kyrgyz, livelihood support, women empowerment, child welfare, and facilitation of community life, education, health training, agriculture, agro-industry, micro-irrigation, renewable energy, trade, transport, and communication, etc. will be funded by a Government of India.

This MoU is valid for the next five years.

This MoU was signed by the representatives of the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Republic of Kyrgyz.

The MoU was signed originally in Hindi, Kyrgyz, Russian and English languages. As it is the basic requirement of international treaties that they should be translated into the official languages of the involved nations.

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