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Petition: STOP Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at Work
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Email Ministers Heather Humphreys and Charlie Flanagan to tell them that you want Ireland to be one of the first countries in the world to ratify the International Labour Organisation Convention and Recommendation for ending violence and harassment in the world of work.
Dear Minister Humphreys TD and Minister Flanagan TD,
Following Ireland’s very progressive involvement in the negotiation of ILO Convention 190, “Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work,” and the Recommendation 206, I am asking you today to prioritise their ratification. I want Ireland to be one of the first countries in the world to ratify the Convention and Recommendation and to play a leadership role in ending violence against women.
By being one of the first countries to ratify the Convention, we will begin the process of making work safer for everyone, worldwide. Industries such as Electronics, Toys, Entertainment, Garment / Fast-Fashion and Agriculture are all repeat offenders when it comes to dangerous and undignified working conditions. These industries are often based in lower income countries, where employment laws offer far less protection against violence and harassment. This Convention is an opportunity to change the law in low income countries, and by becoming an early ratifier the Irish government is leading the way for other countries.
I also believe that it is crucial that the government uses the Recommendation(R206) as a roadmap for implementing the Convention. While Irish law is already largely compliant with the convention, it could potentially be inaccessible to the most vulnerable in society. Laws that protect workers from violence and harassment appear within five different pieces of legislation. (The Employment Equality Acts 1998 – 2015; Non-Fatal Offences Against the Persons Act 1997; Protected Disclosures Act 2014; Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977-2015). There is a potential that marginalised, migrant, and low-income workers could be unaware of their rights under Irish law. We ask the government to implement all Recommendations, especially recommendation 23, which outlines strategies for ensuring all workers are aware of their rights.
Following the ratification of the Convention, Irish legislation ought to oblige companies, through a series of effective incentives and disincentives measures, to take actions to eliminate all forms of harassment and violence against women in their supply chains. Companies should always consider sexual harassment and gender-based violence as behaviours that may have serious human rights implications and not tolerate them in all their activities. In particular, companies must assess the risk of sexual harassment and violence in their supply chains, clearly state to all business partners that harassment and violence at work are not allowed and require their business partners to develop a reporting and handling procedure and make it known to all workers. This obligation also results from the implementation of adequate due diligence processes as defined in the United Nations Guidelines on Business and Human Rights, which ask States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations.