International organizations

Abstract

The International Labour Office has repeatedly dealt with employee representation in enterprises and a number of decisions and recommendations on the subject have been published. One of the first of these recommendations was adopted on June 26, 1952. In this recommendation, the conference of the International Labour Organization advised that consultation and cooperation between employers and employees in the enterprise should be furthered in order to discuss matters of common interest which do not come under the normal procedure of collective bargaining and which are normally not part of the regular employment conditions. The conference was of the opinion that this cooperation and consultation should be achieved either through voluntary agreements between the parties or through legislation which was to set up institutions for consultation and cooperation. It expressed the opinion that a combination of these two methods could also be suitable for achieving this purpose.¹