The ILO Legal Database on Industrial Relations (IRLex) provides accessible summaries and legal texts on industrial relations across ILO member States.
It covers seven thematic areas:
- Regulatory framework
- Organisations and their administration
- Legislative protection of workers' and employers' organizations, their members and representatives
- Tripartite social dialogue
- Information and consultation at the workplace
- Collective bargaining
- Labour disputes and their resolution
IRLex provides users with:
Access to detailed information on regulatory frameworks covering industrial relations and collective bargaining in countries with different legal systems.
The ability to view full country profiles with all information available for the selected country.
The possibility of generating comparative information between countries on specific topics through the ‘Compare countries’ function.
The possibility to do a keyword search for information in specific country profiles.
The database is available in English. It provides users with translated legislative provisions, and access to legislation in its original language and / or other ILO working languages.
Links to the latest comments of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations.Use and citation of this database:
When using or publishing information from this database, please cite the website as your source: ILO Legal Database on Industrial Relations (IRLex) ILO, Geneva (www.ilo.org/irlex).
Disclaimer:
Summaries and full texts in IRLex are provided for information purposes only and are not intended to replace the authentic legal texts.
Legal sources available in English but whose original drafting language is not English are meant to be considered as unofficial translations, unless linking to Government official legal databases or otherwise specified. The content of the sections referring to legal sources available in a language other than English is to be considered as “unofficial English translation” of said sources.
Legal sources are all referenced and directly accessible from the country profiles. However, in some cases where the source dates too far back in time or is unavailable for other reasons, access may not be possible.
The database focuses on the regulation of industrial relations through national regulatory instruments. Except for special circumstances, the database does not provide information on state or provincial laws.
Each country profile has been verified by a country specialist. However, this is no guarantee that the laws contained are always complete, accurate and the most recent version. The database will be updated at regular time intervals. Please contact us if you have updated information or comments at INWORK.
IRLex has been developed with the support of the following ILO projects:
"Promoting Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Rights" funded by the Government of Norway;
"Promoting social dialogue, industrial relations and collective bargaining" funded by the Government of Sweden. More information can be found on our website.
