Selected basic agreement and joint declarations on labour-management relations / ILO

The present volume in the Labour-Management Relations Series contains 31 samples of basic agreements concluded before January 1983. Eight these texts were published in No. 38 of the Series, which appeared in 1971; they are reprinted here mainly to take account of slight modifications made to them in subsequent years and to preserve geographical balance. This volume, like its predecessor, embodies a number of basic agreements and joint statements of policy and principles on labour-management relations and particular aspects thereof, entered into at the national level, usually by the centralb employers' and workers' organisations. In addition, the present volume contains an introduction which provides a typology of basic agreements and deals with such subjects as the history, the present volume contains an introduction which provides a typology of basic agreements and deals with such subjects as the history, the present coverage and the future of this kind of agreement. Although, for the most part, the agreements concerned have been reproduced in full, in some cases provisions not of general interest have been omitted. Unless otherwise indicated, the footnotes to the various agreements have been added by the International Labour Office.