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66th Session - 1980 (4-25 June) 

Geneva, Switzerland

President and Vice-Presidents Composition Agenda Outcomes

President

Mr Gerhard Weissenberg, delegate of Austria

Vice-presidents

Mr Milan Kysely,  Government delegate of Czechoslovakia

Mr F. Keith Richan,  Employers' delegate of Canada

Mr A.M. Issifu, Workers' delegate of Ghana 

Source: Minutes of the First Meeting.

The number of member States represented at the Conference was 137. Seven member States did not send a delegation. The total number of accredited delegates and advisers was 1,719 and 1,460 registered. The number of registered delegates was 480, comprising 242 Government delegates, 116 Employers' delegates and 122 Workers' delegates. In addition, the number of registered advisers was 980, comprising 532 Government advisers, 184 Employers' advisers and 264 Workers' advisers.

Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. 

I. Reports of the Governing Body and the Director-General;

II. Programme and budget proposals and other financial questions;

III. Information and reports on the application of Conventions and Recommendations;

IV. Older workers: work and retirement (second discussion);

V. Promotion of collective bargaining (first discussion);

VI. Equal opportunities and equal treatment for men and women workers: workers with family responsibilities (first discussion).

The Sixty-sixth Session of the International Labour Conference held thirty-four plenary sittings, and adopted an Amendment to a Convention and a Recommendation:

  • Amendment of the Employment injury bennets convention, 1964 (No. 121) - Schedule I list of occupational diseases (amended 1980)
  • Recommendation (No. 162) concerning older workers
Reports submitted to the Conference Reports of the Committees Texts Adopted Other Documents

Report I: Report of the Director-General: Training: challenge of the 1980s

Report I: Report of the Director-General (Supplement): ILO medium-term plan, 1982-87, report on programme implementation, 1978-79

Report I: Report of the Director-General (Supplementary): Request by a non-governmental international organisation to be represented at the 66th (1980) session of the conference

Report II Information and Proposals Concerning the Programme and Budget for 1980-81 and Other Financial and Administrative Questions

Report III (Part 1): Summary of reports on ratified conventions

Report III (Part 2): Migrant Workers. Summary of Reports on Conventions Nos. 97 and 143 and Recommendations Nos 86 and 151 

Report III (Part 3): Summary of information relating to the submission to the competent authorities of Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the ILC

Report III (Part 4A): Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

Report III (Part 4B): Migrant workers: general survey

Report IV (1): Older workers: work and retirement

Report IV (2): Older workers: work and retirement

Report V (1): Promotion of collective bargaining

Report V (2): Promotion of collective bargaining

Report VI (1): Equal opportunities and equal treatment for men and women workers : workers with family responsibilities

Report VI (2): Equal opportunities and equal treatment for men and women workers : workers with family responsibilities

Report VII (a) (1): Safety and health and the working environment

Report VII (a) (2): Safety and health and the working environment

Report VII (b): Amendment of the list of occupational diseases appended to the Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964 (no. 121)

Committee on Collective Bargaining

Committee on Safety and Health

Committee on Workers with Family Responsibilities

Report of the Committee on Safety and Health

Report of the Committee on Collective Bargaining

Report of the Committee on Collective Bargaining: first discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Safety and Health: first discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Workers with Family Responsibilities

Report of the Committee on Workers with Family Responsibilities: first discussion in plenary

Questions arising out of the 66th session of the International Labour Conference

Record of Proceedings


67th Session - 1981 (3-24 June) 

Geneva, Switzerland

President and Vice-Presidents Composition Agenda Outcomes

President

Mr Alioune Diagne, delegate of Senegal

Vice-presidents

Mr Gennadi Jossifovitch Oudovenko, government delegate of Ukraine

Mr Horacio Guillermo Villalobos, Employers' delegate of Venezuela

Mr Frank L. Walcott,  Workers' delegate of Barbados

Source: Minutes of the First Meeting.

The number of member States represented at the Conference was 135. Ten member States did not send a delegation. The total number of accredited delegates and advisers was 1,866 and 1,568 registered. The number of registered delegates was 475, comprising 245 Government delegates, 111 Employers' delegates and 119 Workers' delegates. In addition, the number of registered advisers was 1,093, comprising 554 Government advisers, 210 Employers' advisers and 329 Workers' advisers. 

Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. 

I. Reports of the Governing Body and the Director-General;

II. Programme and budget proposals and other financial questions.

III. Information and reports on the application of Conventions and Recommendations.

IV. Promotion of collective bargaining (second discussion).

V. Equal opportunities and equal treatment for men and women workers: workers with family responsibilities (second discussion).

VI. Safety and health and the working environment (second discussion).

VII. Maintenance of migrant workers' rights in social security (revision of Convention No. 48) (first discussion).

VIII. Termination of employment at the initiative of the employer (first discussion).

IX. Structure of the ILO: Report of the Working Party on Structure.

X. Apartheid in South Africa, including the updating of the 1964 Declaration concerning the Policy of Apartheid of the Republic of South Africa. 

The Sixty-seventh Session of the International Labour Conference held thirty-five plenary sittings, and adopted three Recommendations and three Conventions:

Reports submitted to the Conference Reports of the Committees Texts Adopted Other Documents

Report I: Report of the Director-General: Vocational rehabilitation of the disabled: full participation and equality

Report I: Report of the Director-General (Supplementary): Participation of non-metropolitan territories as observers in the 67th (1981) session of the International Labour Conference

Report I: Report of the Director-General (Supplementary): Participation of non-governmental international organisations in the 67th (1981) session of the conference

Report I: Report of the Director-General (Supplementary): Participation of international organisations in the 67th (1981) session of the conference

Report II Draft Programme and Budget 1982-83 and Other Financial Questions 

Report III (Part 1): Summary of reports on ratified conventions

Report III (Part 2): Minimum age. Summary of Reports on Convention No.138 and Recommendation No.146 

Report III (Part 3): Summary of information relating to the submission to the competent authorities of Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the ILC

Report III (Part 4A): Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

Report III (Part 4B): Minimum age: general survey

Report IV (1): Promotion of collective bargaining

Report IV (2): Promotion of collective bargaining

Report V (1): Equal opportunities and equal treatment for men and women workers: workers with family responsibilities

Report V (2): Equal opportunities and equal treatment for men and women workers: workers with family responsibilities

Report VI (1): Safety and health and the working environment

Report VI (2): Safety and health and the working environment

Report VII (1): Maintenance of migrant workers' rights in social security (revision of convention no. 48)

Report VII (2): Maintenance of migrant workers' rights in social security (revision of convention no. 48)

Report VIII (1): Termination of employment at the initiative of the employer

Report VIII (2): Termination of employment at the initiative of the employer

 

Committee on Termination of Employment

Committee on Collective Bargaining

Committee on Safety and Health

Committee on Social Security of Migrant Workers

Committee on Workers with Family Responsibilities

Report of the Committee on Collective Bargaining

Report of the Committee on Collective Bargaining: second discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Safety and Health

Report of the Committee on Safety and Health: second discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Social Security of Migrant Workers

Report of the Committee on Social Security of Migrant Workers: first discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Workers with Family Responsibilities

Report of the Committee on Workers with Family Responsibilities: second discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Termination of Employment

Report of theCommittee on Termination of Employment: first discussion in plenary

C154 Collective Bargaining Convention, 1981

C155 Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981

C156 Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, 1981

Final record vote on the Convention concerning Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment for Men and Women Workers: Workers with Family Responsibilities

Final record vote on the Convention concerning occupational safety and health and the working environment

Final record vote on the Convention concerning the Promotion of Collective Bargaining

Record of Proceedings


68th Session - 1982 (2-23 June) 

Geneva, Switzerland

President and Vice-Presidents Composition Agenda Outcomes

President

Mr Alfonso Grados Bertorini, delegate of Peru

Vice-presidents

Mr Ingolf Noack, Government delegate of Germany

Mr A. Verschueren, Employers' delegate of Belgium

Mr Yoshikazu Tanaka,  Workers' delegate of Japan

Source: Minutes of the First Meeting.

The number of member States represented at the Conference was 137. Eleven member States have not sent a delegation. The total number of accredited delegates and advisers was 1,806 and 1,568 registered. The number of registered delegates was 472, comprising 244 Government delegates, 110 Employers' delegates and 118 Workers' delegates. In addition, the number of registered advisers was 1,096 comprising 568 Government advisers, 216 Employers' advisers and 312 Workers' advisers. 

Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. 

I. Reports of the Governing Body and the Director-General;

II. Programme and budget proposals and other financial questions;

III. Information and reports on the application of Conventions and Recommendations;

IV. Maintenance of migrant workers' rights in social security (revision of Convention No. 48) (second discussion);

V. Termination of employment at the initiative of the employer (second discussion);

VI. Vocational rehabilitation (general discussion);

VII. Revision of the Plantation Convention (no. 110) and Recommendation (no. 110), 1958.

The Sixty-eighth Session of the International Labour Conference held thirty-three plenary sittings, and adopted a Protocol, a Recommendation and two Conventions:

Reports submitted to the Conference Reports of the Committees Texts Adopted Other Documents

Report I: Report of the Director-General: What jobs for youth?

Report I: Report of the Director-General (Supplement): Review of the ILO medium-term plan, 1982-87; report on programme implementation, 1980-81

Report I: Report of the Director-General (Supplementary)

Report II Information and Proposal Concerning the Programme and Budget for 1982-83 and Other Financial and Administrative Questions

Report III (Parts 1, 2 and 3): Summary of reports

Report III (Part 4A): Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

Report III (Part 4B): Tripartite consultation: international labour standards: general survey

Report III (Part 5): List of Ratifications of Conventions

Report IV (1): Maintenance of migrant workers' rights in social security (Revision of Convention No. 48)

Report IV (2): Maintenance of migrant workers' rights in social security (Revision of Convention No. 48)

Report V (1): Termination of employment at the initiative of the employer

Report V (2): Termination of employment at the initiative of the employer

Report VI (1): Vocational rehabilitation

Report VI (2): Vocational rehabilitation

Report VII (1): Revision of the Plantation Convention (no. 110) and Recommendation (no. 110), 1958

Report VII (2): Revision of the Plantation Convention (no. 110) and Recommendation (no. 110), 1958

Committee on Termination of Employment

Committee on Social Security of Migrant Workers

Committee on plantations

Report of the Committee on Plantations

Report of the Committee on Plantations: Submission, Discussion and Adoption

Report of the Committee on Social Security of Migrant Workers

Report of the Committee on Social Security of Migrant Workers: second discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation

Report of the Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation: first discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Termination of Employment

Report of the Committee on Termination of Employment: Second discussion in plenary

C157 Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention, 1982

C158 Termination of Employment Convention, 1982

Final record vote on the Convention concerning Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment for Men and Women Workers: Workers with Family Responsibilities

Final record vote on the Convention concerning termination of employment at the initiative of the employer

Final record vote on the Protocol to the Plantations Convention

P110 Protocol to the Plantations Convention, 1958

Record of Proceedings


69th Session - 1983 (1-22 June) 

Geneva, Switzerland

President and Vice-Presidents Composition Agenda Outcomes

President

Mr James Brendan Bolger, delegate of New Zealand

Vice-presidents

Mr Vassil Mratchkov,  Government delegate of Bulgaria

Mr George Polites,  Employers' delegate of Australia

Mr G. Lloyd, Workers' delegate of the United Kingdom

Source: Minutes of the First Meeting.

The number of member States represented at the Conference was 137. Thirteen member States have not sent a delegation. The total number of accredited delegates and advisers was 1,752 and 1,497 registered. The number of registered delegates was 478, comprising 244 Government delegates, 115 Employers' delegates and 119 Workers' delegates. In addition, the number of registered advisers was 1,019, comprising 541 Government advisers, 198 Employers' advisers and 280 Workers' advisers. 

Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. 

I. Reports of the Governing Body and the Director-General;

II. Programme and budget proposals and other financial questions;

III. Information and reports on the application of Conventions and Recommendations;

IV. Vocational rehabilitation (second discussion);

V. Maintenance of rights in social security (single discussion);

VI. Employment policy (first discussion);

VII. Social aspects of industrialisation (general discussion);

VIII. Structure of the ILO : Report of the Working Party on Structure. 

The Sixty-ninth Session of the International Labour Conference held thirty-six plenary sittings, and adopted two Recommendations and a Convention:

Reports submitted to the Conference Reports of the Committees Texts Adopted Other Documents

Child labour: extract from the report of the Director-General to the International Labour Conference

Report I: Report of the Director-General 

Report II Draft Programme and Budget 1984-85 and Other Financial Questions

Report III (Parts 1, 2 and 3): Summary of reports

Report III (Part 4A): Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

Report III (Part 4B): Freedom of association and collective bargaining: general survey

Report III (Part 5): List of Ratifications of Conventions

Report IV (1): Vocational rehabilitation

Report IV (2): Vocational rehabilitation

Report V: Maintenance of rights in social security

Report VI (1): Employment policy

Report VI (2): Employment policy

Report VII: Social aspects of industrialisation

Report VIII: Structure of the ILO: reports of the working party on structure

Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation

Report of the Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation

Report of the Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation: second discussion in plenary

Action on the resolutions and conclusions adopted by the conference at its 69th (1983) session

C159 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983

Final record vote on the Convention concerning vocational rehabilitation and employment (disabled persons)

Agenda

Record of Proceedings


70th Session - 1984 (6-26 June) 

Geneva, Switzerland

President and Vice-Presidents Composition Agenda Outcomes

President

Mr A.-G. Leijon, delegate of Sweden

Vice-presidents

Mr David Meiszter,  Government delegate of Hungary

Mr Tom Diju Owuor, Employers' delegate of Kenya

Mr Nangbob Barnabo, Workers' delegate of Togo

Source: Minutes of the First Meeting.

The number of member States represented at the Conference was 139. Twelve member States have not sent a delegation. The total number of accredited delegates and advisers was 1,765 and 1,556 registered. The number of registered delegates was 500, comprising 258 Government delegates, 119 Employers' delegates and 123 Workers' delegates. In addition, the number of registered advisers was 1,056, comprising 541 Government advisers, 209 Employers' advisers and 306 Workers' advisers.

Source: Report of the Credentials Committee. 

I. Reports of the Governing Body and the Director-General;

II. Programme and budget proposals and other financial questions;

III. Information and reports on the application of Conventions and Recommendations;

IV. Employment policy (second discussion);

V. Occupational health services (first discussion);

VI. Revision of the Convention concerning statistics of wages and hours of work, 1938 (No. 63) (first discussion);

VII. Evaluation of the International Programme for the Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment (PIACT) (general discussion);

VIII. Structure of the ILO: Report of the Conference Delegation on Structure.

The Seventieth Session of the International Labour Conference held thirty-two plenary sittings, and adopted a Recommendation:

Reports submitted to the Conference Reports of the Committees Texts Adopted Other Documents

Report I: Report of the Director-General: International Labour Standards

Report II Information concerning the Programme and Budget for 1984-85 and Other Financial and Administrative Questions

Report III (Parts 1, 2 and 3): Summary of reports

Report III (Part 4A): Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

Report III (Part 4B): Working time, reduction of hours of work, weekly rest and holidays with pay : general survey

Report IV (1): Employment policy 

Report IV (2): Employment policy 

Report V (1): Occupational health services

Report V (2): Occupational health services

Report VI (1): Revision of the convention concerning statistics of wages and hours of work, 1938 (no. 63)

Report VI (2): Revision of the convention concerning statistics of wages and hours of work, 1938 (no. 63)

Report VII: Evaluation of the international programme for the improvement of working conditions and environment (PIACT)

Report VIII: Structure of the ILO: reports of the conference delegation on structure

Committee on Occupational Health Services

Report of the Committee on Convention No. 63 (Statistics): Revision of the Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63)

Report of the Committee on Convention No. 63 (Statistics): first discussion in plenary

Report of the Committee on Occupational Health Services

Report of the Committee on Occupational Health Services: first discussion in plenary

Action on the resolutions adopted by the conference at its 70th (1984) session

Agenda

Record of Proceedings