Jun 15, 2010
S'pore to ratify ILO Convention
By Lee Jia Xin
SINGAPORE will ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention on Tripartite Consultation.
This announcement was made by Minister for Manpower Gan Kim Yong at the ILO in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
Convention 144 aims to establish national tripartite consultations in ILO member states to promote the implementation of international labour standards. It requires ratifying ILO members to undertake effective consultations on matters pertaining to ILO activities between representatives of the government, employers and workers.
With the ratification of Convention 144, Singapore has ratified seven ILO Core and Priority Conventions. One of the core conventions is the Forced Labour Convention (No. 29).
The International Labor Organisation, in C29 Forced Labour Convention, 1930, defines forced labour as follows:
Article 2
1. For the purposes of this Convention the term forced or compulsory labour shall mean all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.
Let's break down this definition and apply it to what is happening to secondary, JC and polytechnic students during this Youth Olympic Games
