Core Labor Standards
This core labor standard ensures that workers have the freedom to form unions, join collective bargaining, and negotiate for better working conditions and rights.
What is the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining?
This type of industrial action involves employees staying at their workstations but refusing to perform their duties, effectively halting productivity while occupying the workplace.
What is a Sit-Down Strike?
This first step in an investigation ensures that sensitive information remains private and is not shared with unauthorized individuals, helping maintain trust in the process.
What is Ensure Confidentiality?
These employees are recruited and hired in the host country, without the need for relocation from the home country.
What are Local Hires?
This type of risk arises when an organization’s long-term goals and strategies fail due to internal or external factors, potentially impacting its overall direction.
What is Strategic Risk?
This core labor standard prohibits the practice of compelling individuals to work against their will, ensuring that all labor is voluntary and free from coercion.
What is Force Labor?
This type of strike occurs without union authorization or outside of official procedures, often leading to unplanned work stoppages.
What is a Wildcat Strike?
This step involves offering safeguards to those involved in the investigation, ensuring that they are not subject to retaliation or harm for participating in the process.
What is Provide Protection?
Employees in this category are sent abroad for a period typically ranging from a few weeks to a year to address specific business needs.
What are Short-Term Assignees?
Risks in this category stem from failures in internal processes, systems, people, or external events, affecting the day-to-day operations of an organization.
What is Operational Risk?
This core labor standard ensures that children are not employed in work that could harm their development or education, setting a legal minimum age for employment.
What is Minimum Age?
This action involves employees refusing to work beyond their regular hours, deliberately limiting their availability and overtime work to exert pressure on the employer.
What is an Overtime Ban?
This step requires the investigator to assess all the facts gathered during the process, make a fair conclusion, and decide on appropriate actions based on the findings.
What is Make a Decision?
These employees live in one country but work across borders, regularly commuting to a neighboring country for work.
What are Commuters?
This type of risk involves potential financial losses due to factors such as poor investment decisions, inadequate financial controls, or market fluctuations.
What is Financial Risk?
This core labor standard mandates that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work, promoting fairness and gender equality in the workplace.
What is Equal Remuneration?
This form of protest involves workers assembling outside the workplace to draw attention to a dispute, often holding signs and encouraging others to support their cause.
What is Picketing?
This step involves preparing thoughtful and clear questions that will guide the interviews and help uncover important details about the case.
What is Develop Interview Questions?
This type of employee is sent on short notice to a foreign country for a specific purpose and is usually on a temporary, urgent assignment.
What are Just-in-Time Expatriates?
Risks in this category involve potential physical harm or damage, such as workplace accidents, health issues, or natural disasters, which could affect employees and operations.
What is Hazard Risk?
This core labor standard aims to eliminate the most hazardous and exploitative forms of child labor, such as trafficking, slavery, and work in dangerous environments.
What is Worst Forms of Child Labor?
In this type of industrial action, employees strictly adhere to their job descriptions and rules, refusing to go beyond the basic requirements, often causing work slowdowns.
What is Work-to-rule?
This step focuses on choosing the right person for the task, selecting someone who has the proper skills, impartiality, and authority to conduct the investigation.
What is Select an Investigator?
This type of assignment typically involves an employee being sent overseas for an extended period, often lasting one to three years.
What are International Assignees?
This type of risk can occur when an organization faces losses from factors such as fluctuating currency values, credit issues, or changes in interest rates that could impact its financial stability.
What is Financial Risk?