Enhancing legislative action

Enhancing effectiveness of legislation

Description

Enhancing legislative action involves strengthening the creation, implementation, and enforcement of laws to address specific societal, environmental, or economic problems. This strategy focuses on updating outdated regulations, closing legal loopholes, and ensuring effective oversight. By improving legislative frameworks and processes, it aims to provide clear, enforceable remedies, promote accountability, and ensure that laws are responsive to emerging challenges, thereby fostering more effective governance and protection of public interests.

Context

In many countries, laws providing for equal rights in employment have not brought about the substantial changes expected. Frequently the laws are not applied in a satisfactory manner and are not sufficiently known by the persons concerned. Their effectiveness may also be impaired by the existence of provisions in labour or social security legislation or in other laws, which either directly or indirectly put women at a disadvantage as compared with men in the field of employment.

Implementation

ILO assists its constituents to improve the role of legislation in promoting equality of rights in employment. Assistance is also provided to identify provisions in national legislation that hinder equality between men and women in employment.