Traduction de «Les normes provinciales du travail » (Français → Anglais) :

5. Calls on major international garment brands to cooperate with their subcontractors to improve occupational health, safety and labour standards; calls on retailers, NGOs and all other actors involved, including where appropriate the Commission, to work together to develop a voluntary social labelling standard certifying that a product has been manufactured in accordance with ILO core labour standards;

23. Calls on China to comply with minimum social standards; underlines the importance of compliance with, and rapid implementation of, all International Labour Organisation rules, including the right freely to form independent trade unions; welcomes the implementation of the labour contract law and calls for the legislative framework to be supplemented by the adoption of a law on collective bargaining; urges both the Chinese authorities and European investors and companies operating in China to observe international labour standards and to guarantee decent pay and working conditions and respect for human rights in China; takes the vi ...[+++]ew that the EU should not allow market access for goods which have been produced by means of child labour or in facilities which gravely violate international labour standards and human rights, such as prison camps;

5. Stresses the impact which China has on the world economy, its responsibility to comply with minimum social standards and the importance of trade relations between the EU and China; stresses that observance of human and social rights is essential in the cooperation between the EU and China; underlines the importance of compliance with and a rapid implementation of all rules of the International Labour Organisation and the World Trade Organisation, including the right to freely form independent trade unions; supports the pursuit of decent pay and working conditions; calls for mutual respect for labour legislation, especially the prevention of illegal forms of labour ...[+++] such as child labour and prison labour; notes the improvements made by the Chinese government regarding better conditions for employees, yet observes that workers’ rights are not always respected due to poor enforcement of labour laws and employers frequently failing to comply with environmental, health and safety standards, which thus leads to dangerous work environments; calls for a thorough improvement of the legislation concerned; stresses the importance of better supply-chain control with regard to working conditions; expects the Chinese government and Chinese firms to take the GSP+ as the standard for their everyday work;

10. Calls for the EU to support the extension of the WTO trade policy review mechanism to cover the trade-related aspects of sustainable development, including compliance with core labour standards, and the amendment of the ‘Definition of a Subsidy’ in the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures with a view to ensuring compliance with core labour standards and respect for human rights in export-processing zones; calls also for the EU’s Geneva Delegation to revive and maintain the ‘friends of labour’ informal grouping it established to promote labour standards in the WTO;

In its communication on Promoting Core Labour Standards and Improving Social Governance in the context of Globalisation [2], the Commission stressed the need to ensure the respect for core labour standards in the context of globalisation.

* Through co-operation with the ILO specific attention will be given to labour standards, including in the context of follow-up to the Communication on core labour standards.