Quality of employmentQuality of employmentSub-dimension 1b “Child labour and forced labour”

UNECE Meeting of Group of experts on measuring quality of employmentGeneva, 11 Sept. 2013

Quick reviewQuick reviewMoldova volunteered to develop

indicator sheets in sub-dimension 1b due to relevance in the national context and experience in producing such indicators;

1b indicators help measure the progress to the one of the greatest goals set by the human civilization: abolishing work which violates human rights and has negative effects on human development.

““Easy” indicatorsEasy” indicatorsDeveloping sheets for indicators 1b1,

1b2, 1b3, 1b4, 1b5 was easy because there are ILO conventions, resolutions and great publications on measuring child labour;

In 2009 the National Bureau of Statistics conducted a Child Labour Survey.

Indicators 1b1-1b5Indicators 1b1-1b5Key documents : Minimum Age Convention (1973), Worst

Form of Child Labour Convention (1999), 18th ICLS resolution (2008);

Additional information: „Global child labour developments: Measuring trends from 2004 to 2008” , ILO, 2010

““Not easy” indicatorsNot easy” indicatorsDeveloping the indicator sheets for

forced labour was more challenging;There are no clear standards set as in the

case of child labour;Still, it wasn’t very difficult as NBS tested

in 2008 a methodological frame developed by the ILO;

Key information: “Hard to see, harder to count”, ILO, 2012

1b6-1b7: Searching for solutions1b6-1b7: Searching for solutionsIt was difficult to define indicators as the

phenomena is very complex;Target population: “employed or

recently-employed migrants” was difficult to define;

We spend allot of time to find solutions and still were not very happy about the result

Better solutionBetter solution

As reviewing institution, ILO:proposed a new indicator: „ 1b6

Percentage of employed who are in forced labour“;

proposed to merge the two indicators on forced labour in one: „1b7 Forced labour among returned migrants”;

elaborated the indicator sheets;

Issues to discussIssues to discussTo which extent indicators 1b1 to 1b7

should be “optional” when measuring quality of employment in a country?

Should hazardous conditions be considered as such, regardless the age of the child?

How to define the “returned migrant”, for comparability in time and space?