Youth Employment

Rights@work for youth: Facilitator guide and toolkit

Turin, 5-6 October, 2015

Rights@work for youth

Youth Employment

This presentation

• Structure and content of the Rights@work facilitator’s guide;

• Session 1: Youth and work

• Activity: Decent work millionaire

Rights@work Guide

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Rights@work guide and toolkit/1

Help trade unions and other organizations design and deliver awareness-raising activities on youth rights at work. The target audience is youth 15 to 29 who are about to enter, or just entered, the labour market;

Need to be familiar with the basic rights at work in force in the country and be willing to acquire additional information about labour laws. Their role is to provide information and “know-how” on basic rights at work

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Rights@work guide and toolkit/2

Session 1: Youth labour market, decent work and fundamental rights at work (2h);

Session 2: Employment contracts (2h);

Session 3: Social security systems (2h);

Session 4: Conditions of work (2h);

Session 5: Occupational safety and health (2h);

Session 6: Exercising rights at work (3h).

Youth Employment

Rights@work guide and toolkit: Adaptation

Organize information on the country’s conditions of work (minimum working age, working hours, minimum wage, social security and OHS) on Rights@Work cards;

Collect examples of employment contracts and payslips;

Prepare coloured cards summarizing the principles of ILO Conventions ratified at country level;

List of institutions and organisations that can provide information on workers’ rights and offer advice on how to ensure that rights are respected.

Session 1: Young people and work

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Session 1: Structure and content

The youth labour market (labour market barriers; employment and unemployment; sectors and occupations; conditions of work), informal work and labour market flexibility;

Fundamental principles and rights at work: freedom of association and collective bargaining; elimination of forced labour, abolition of child labour; and prohibition of discrimination;

Decent work: productive work, fair wages, security and social protection; opportunities for personal development and social integration; freedom to organize and participate in decisions; equality of opportunity and treatment.

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Session 1: Learning activities/1

Rights@work cards: summarize the key labour provisions in force in the country (minimum working age, working hours, minimum wage, social security and OHS).

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Session 1: Learning activities/2

Fair workplaces: gives participants the opportunity to reflect on what they already know about work;

Flexibility: identifies pros and cons of flexibility for workers and employers. It includes a short discussion on terminology(part-time and temporary work; job sharing; hiring and firing costs);

Two Cs (Challenges and Characters): is an interview game to identify which individual characteristics are more associated to certain labour market challenges;

Say “No!” to discrimination: decide whether discrimination is present in real-life situations, and if so, on what grounds.

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Session 1: Decent Work Millionaire

• This activity asks participants - in teams from two to four - to consider a number of work practices and to decide whether these are decent or not;

• The examples in the toolkit build on the principles of ILO’s Conventions. Facilitators should develop their own examples to better reflect the country situation;

Use real life situations that are reflected in the Rights@Work cards, so that participants have clues on the possible answers.

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QUESTIONS?

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