108th Session of the International Labour Conference took place in June 2019 and was dedicated to the entity's centenary. There were 6,000 delegates at the conference, including 39 heads of states and governments, such as the presidents of Italy and France, the prime ministers of Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, and other countries. The Russian delegation included Golikov T.A. (Prime Minister of Labour and Social Protection), Topilin M.A. (Minister of Labour and Social Protection), Shokhin A.N. (President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE)), and Shmakov M.V. (Chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia).
The conference summed up the results of the ILO's activities in the 20th century and outlined the most important areas for international cooperation in the 21st century.
Guy Ryder, ILO Director‐General, presented the report of the Global Commission on the Future of Work "Working for a Better Future", which outlined the prospects for the development of international cooperation in labour and social protection in the coming decades. The unique feature of the ILO is its commitment to the principles of social justice, tripartism and flexibility in solving problems arising in the world of work due to economic globalization, informatization, and robotization.
A new Violence and Harassment Convention and ILO Centenary Declaration1 were accepted at the conference. Under the Declaration, ILO top targets are as follows:
– using technological advances to increase material well‐being, ensure self‐ actualization and human dignity;
– ensuring equality of rights for disabled people in the world of work;
– creation of effective continuing education, professional training and retraining;
– implementation of non‐discrimination principles in the world of work and equal pay for equal work;
– reduction and liquidation of shadow economy, if possible;