Quality jobs and workers
- Correlation between worker's life satisfaction and compliance on OSH and compensation
- Workers report decrease in fatigue, backache and dizziness
- Improved compliance is correlated with increase remittances and improved health
Job Quality and Businesses:
Better Work Research
How do improved working conditions impact:
- Worker well-being
- Business outcomes
Eight Countries
Indonesia
Haiti
- Increased profitability in safe workplaces, wages are paid in time
- Increased productivity where workers can raise their concerns
- Decreased productivity where workers are concerned about verbal abuse
Be in sufficient factories to impact behaviour
Better Work
www.betterwork.org
germans@ilo.org
Build sustainable mechanisms at factory level
Improve the lives of at least 3m workers and millions more of their family members by 2017
Measure impact and use that to influence at national and international level
JOB QUALITY
JOB CREATION
Create partnership
Improved Working Conditions
Empowered Workers
Profitable, Productive Industries
Jordan
Cambodia
Vietnam
Developed Communities
Enabling National Ownership
Influencing change in supply chain and industry
Nicaragua
Lesotho
Bangladesh
How We Work
Worker Well-being
The Business Case
- Quality jobs create value throughout garment supply chains
- Better jobs mean better growth prospects for firms
- firms that provide quality jobs are more resilient
Rana Plaza Collapse in 2013
The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire 1911