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Bhutan - Acceptable Conditions of Work

Indicators

The following indicators should be considered when conducting assessments of compliance (click on links for details):

Legal Framework

• ILO 131 - Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (A-1)
• ILO 1 - Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919
• ILO 30 - Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930
• ILO 47 - Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935
• ILO 14 - Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (A-9)
• IILO 101 - Holidays with Pay (Agriculture) Convention, 1952 (A-11)
• ILO 52 - Holidays with Pay Convention, 1936 (A-13)
• ILO 132 - Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (A-14)
• ILO 81 - Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (A-16)
• ILO 155 - Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (A-18)
• Establishment of one or more minimum wages (A-2)
• Application of minimum wages (A-3, A-4)
• Regular work week of 48 hours or less (A-6)
• Limitations on the regular workweek (A-7)
• Overtime (A-8)
• Weekly day of rest (A-10)
• Paid holidays for agricultural workers (A-12)
• Paid holidays for employed workers (A-15)
• Inspection of workplaces (A-17)
• Workplace health and safety (A-19)

Government Performance

• Mechanism for fixing minimum wages (B-1)
• Agency to promote/enforce laws governing hours of work (B-2)
• Agency to promote/enforce laws protecting occupational safety and health (B-3)
• Labor Inspectorate (B-4, B-5, B-6, B-7)
• Administrative or Judicial Complaint Mechanism (B-8, B-9)
• Government programs to combat problems in areas of wages, hours, and occupational safety and health (B-10)
• Government sponsored education programs focused on wages, hours, and occupational safety and health (B-11)
• International technical assistance (B-12)
• Government support for NGO activities (B-13)

Overall Outcomes

• Average and median manufacturing wages compared with minimum wage(s) in local currency and in U.S. dollars (C-1)
• Average earnings in industries that export to the United States (C-2)
• Average hours worked per week (C-3)
• Number of work-related fatalities per 100,000 workers (C-4)
• Number of occupational injuries (C-5)

Sources

International Sources

United Nations

Includes State Party Reports and the Conclusions and Observations of UN Committees relating to the CCPR, CEDAW, CERD, CESCR, CMW, CRC.

• Treaty Body Database
• Committee Assessment of Source

National Sources

Department of Labor, Bhutan

Potentially useful information available in English

• Department of Labor, Bhutan, website
• Committee Assessment of Source

Ministry of Agriculture, Bhutan

Potentially useful information available in English

• Ministry of Agriculture, Bhutan, website
• Committee Assessment of Source

Ministry of Education, Bhutan

Potentially useful information available in English

• Ministry of Education, Bhutan, website
• Committee Assessment of Source

Ministry of Finance, Bhutan

Potentially useful information available in English

• Ministry of Finance, Bhutan, website
• Committee Assessment of Source

Ministry of Labour and Human Development, Bhutan

Potentially useful information available in English

• Ministry of Labour and Human Development, Bhutan, website
• Committee Assessment of Source

Ministry of Trade and Industries, Bhutan

Potentially useful information available in English

• Ministry of Trade and Industries, Bhutan, website
• Committee Assessment of Source

U.S. Government Sources

U.S. State Department

Section 6 covers Workers' Rights, including "Status of Child Labor Practices and Minimum Age for Employment" and "Acceptable Conditions of Work

• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
• Committee Assessment of Source

Nongovernmental Organizations

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

This database contains approximately 2,500 units of measurement on workers rights, extracted from approximately 100 public and confidential source documents including guidelines and questionnaires used by monitoring organizations, multinational corporations, and trade associations; public reports by governmental bodies and non-government organizations; public corporate reports; and others. Database provides indicators and source lists, but no specific data.

• Measurement Units for Workers Rights (MUWR), on-line database service
• Committee Assessment of Source

Social Accountability International

SA8000, a voluntary workplace standard patterned on those of the International Organization of Standardization was created in 1997 by the Council on Economic Priorities (a U.S. NGO), and is administered by another NGO, Social Accountability International (SAI).

• SA800
• Committee Assessment of Source

Solidar

Updates include news snippets on trade and labor standards, with special attention to the role of the European Union in the WTO

• International Updates
• Committee Assessment of Source