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Labour rights · ILO 1998 Declaration

Decent Work You Can Show, Not Just State

The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work sets out five principles that apply to every workplace. Buyers, standards and laws increasingly ask suppliers to show them in practice: across their own sites, their labour contractors and their supply base.

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The Five Fundamental Principles

Every member state of the International Labour Organization has committed to respect and promote these principles. Many certification standards and buyer codes build their labour requirements on them.

  1. Freedom of association and collective bargaining

    Workers can form or join committees and unions, and raise issues without reprisal.

    Often asked to show

    • Worker committee records
    • Grievance and response logs

  2. No forced or compulsory labour

    Work is voluntary. Workers keep their own documents, pay no recruitment fees and can leave.

    Often asked to show

    • Signed, understood terms of employment
    • Wage and deduction records

  3. No child labour

    No children below minimum working age, and young workers kept away from hazardous work.

    Often asked to show

    • Age verification records
    • Young worker task rules

  4. No discrimination in employment

    Hiring, pay, promotion and exit decisions are based on the work, not on who the worker is.

    Often asked to show

    • Recruitment and pay records
    • Equal treatment policy

  5. A safe and healthy working environment

    Risks are assessed and controlled, workers are trained and equipped, and incidents are recorded.

    Often asked to show

    • Risk assessments and incident logs
    • Training and protective equipment records

Where It Gets Hard in Practice

  • Much of the workforce sits with labour contractors, so worker records are held by someone else.
  • Seasonal and migrant workers come and go faster than paper registers are updated.
  • At farm and smallholder level, family and hired labour can be hard to tell apart.
  • Self-assessments are filled in once for an audit, then not looked at again.

What S360 Does

The same integrated capability we bring to any requirement: understand where the risk sits, put the system in place, and keep it running.

AdvisoryUnderstand

  • Labour risk mapping across sites, contractors and suppliers
  • Gap review against the five principles and applicable national labour law
  • Priorities that buyers and auditors look at first

ImplementationPut it in place

  • Policies, procedures and management review
  • Grievance mechanisms workers actually use
  • Training for supervisors, contractors and workers

DigitalKeep it running

  • Worker and contractor records kept current
  • Labour self-assessments on a schedule
  • Corrective actions tracked to closure

Labour Compliance, Run Digitally

Labour compliance fails quietly between audits. The digital layer keeps the record current, so evidence is collected as work happens rather than assembled when someone asks.

  1. Assessrisk by site and supplier
  2. Fixactions with owners
  3. Recordevidence as it happens
  4. Monitorreviews on a schedule
  5. Showto buyers and auditors
  • Supplier & Vendor ManagementRegister labour contractors alongside suppliers, with their licences, worker lists and agreements on file.
  • Document ManagementKeep contracts, wage records, age checks and training records in one place, with restricted access to personal data.
  • Due Diligence PlatformRun labour self-assessments and risk reviews across sites, contractors and suppliers, and repeat them on a schedule.
  • WorkflowTake grievances from simple forms or mobile channels, assign an owner, and track each one to a recorded outcome.
  • AnalyticsSee open actions, overdue reviews and risk by site or supplier, instead of compiling them before an audit.
TodayWith S360
Contractor worker lists arrive by email, if at allContractor workers registered and kept current
Age and identity checks kept in paper filesChecks recorded once, with access limited to who needs it
Grievances raised verbally and forgottenEach grievance logged, assigned and closed with evidence
Self-assessment completed once a yearLabour risk reviewed on a schedule, with changes flagged

Services are scoped around the organisation's requirements. Digital modules may be offered independently, as part of implementation engagements, or as integrated solutions, depending on client requirements.

Where You Will Meet These Principles

  • Certification standards, for example FSC, PEFC, RSPO and ASC
  • Buyer and brand codes of conduct
  • Responsible-sourcing and due diligence requirements
  • Applicable national labour law

S360 is the system, not the requirement. One labour system, kept current, answers each of these together instead of a separate file for every audit.

Contributes to SDG 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth. This page is general information, not legal advice.

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