1. Youth Employment Rights@work for youth: Conditions of work Occupational safety and health Turin, 5-6 October, 2015 Rights@work for youth

2. Youth Employment This presentation Session 4: Conditions of work (hours of work, wages and leave) Session 5: Occupational safety and health Activity: Hunt the hazard! Concluding session: Exercising rights at work

3. Session 4: Conditions of work

4. Youth Employment Session 4: Structure and content Hours of work: key ILO’s Conventions on hours of work; five dimensions of decent working time; night work; rest periods; Wages: minimum wage, sub-minimum wage for young workers; compensation for overtime work and pay slip; Leave: the various type of leave (annual, sickness, maternity and parental; public holidays.

5. Youth Employment Session 4: Learning activities At work... Flash the standards: brainstorming on the pros and cons of shift work, night work and overtime; There isn’t much left at the end of month...: serves to familiarize youth with the form and content of a payslip (gross wage, deductions and net pay); Chief.. Just one last question: simulates a negotiation on salary and working time between workers and employers;

6. Youth Employment Session 4: Speedy advising..... This activity asks participants to play alternatively the role of young workers facing a problem and that of a counsellor tasked to provide advice. Counsellors have 2-3 minutes to advise and then move on to another worker. The real-life situations provided in the toolkit are examples where the advice builds on ILO’s Conventions. Facilitators should develop their own cases to reflect national circumstances.

7. Session 5: Occupational safety and health

8. Youth Employment Session 5: Structure and content Rights and responsibilities on safety and health: of both employers (safe workplace, inspection and maintenance of equipment, information and training, compliance with OSH regulations) and workers (protect own safety and health, used safe work procedures, reporting hazards, participate to OSH training, right to refuse work or tasks that is unusually dangerous to self and others); Identifying risks in the work place: definition of health and safety hazards (with examples) and methods to control hazards (removal, improve procedures and protective equipment).

9. Youth Employment Session 5: Learning activities Workplace visit: (in lieu of classroom-based activities): participants in teams of 3-4 inspect different areas of the workplace and interviews both workers and employers (if possible). Their tasks is to map the hazards and the procedures established to minimize risks. Safety pyramid...: serves to familiarize youth with the methods to manage hazards (remove, improve work policies and procedures and protective equipment). On a real-life situation teams are asked to identify a solution and to post it in the proper category.

10. Youth Employment Session 5: Hunt the hazard..... This activity asked participants – divided into teams – to identify as many hazards as they can in the workplace displayed in the picture and to categorise them into health or safety hazards (or both). The Facilitators should also help teams identify the means to minimize the hazards identified and discuss the short- and long-term consequences of exposure.

11. Youth Employment Programme Hunt the hazard......

12. Youth Employment Programme Hunt the hazard......

13. Youth Employment Closing session: Exercising rights at work Strategies to manage conflict: negotiation skills, ability to raise issues constructively, settlement of labour disputes, and identification of persons, organizations and institutions that can help when addressing a dispute in the workplace (invite a trade union or a worker to share real-life experiences on raising difficult issues with employers). …and we haven’t heard the last of it! is a role play that reproduce the campaign for a living wage in UK (1990s), security and cleaning workers, sub- contractors and employers, trade unions and the media.

14. Youth Employment QUESTIONS?

15. Youth Employment Contact 4, route des Morillons CH – 1211 Geneva 22 Tel. : + 41 22 799 70 19 Fax: + 41 22 799 75 62 Email: youth@ilo.orgyouth@ilo.org