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Assessing Compliance |
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En Español
There are both positive and negative aspects of compliance. The negative aspect focuses on the degree to which governments permit citizens to exercise these rights without interfering. The positive aspect focuses on whether governments provide a legal and administrative framework that ensures citizens are able to exercise these rights in practice.
The positive role of government, in turn, has reactive and proactive aspects. The reactive aspect deals with enforcement mechanisms and determining whether there are prompt and adequate penalties for violations.
The proactive aspect emphasizes educating workers, employers, and government officials about the importance of labor rights and to the productivity gains and human satisfaction from successful worker-management relations, and encourages the spread of best practices through a given economy and a given country. The provision of new resources to strengthen enforcement, to educate populations, and to reward improved performance is encouraged.
It is recognized, at the same time, that improvement in the lives of workers, and in the treatment of workers, relies on many economic, political, and social factors besides the enforcement of labor standards. In particular, economic growth is essential to stimulate job creation and rising wages.
Taking into consideration the more detailed treatment of the above considerations in the body of the report, CMILS recommended against precise scoring or ranking of countries against each other. The committee believes that it is particularly important to keep the dynamic element in mind when assessing the compliance of poorer developing countries with high levels of poverty and limited resources.
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