The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, has told delegates they must assume the responsibilities of the ILO’s social justice mandate if the benefits of transformative change at work are to be realized. Inequality, marginalization and division are not phenomena to which the world of work must react but “the consequence of what we do, how we behave, what we decide,” he said in opening remarks to the 105th session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva on Monday. The Director-General noted that the world has entered an era where technology is generating innovate disruption of productive life. The debate amongst those who celebrate and those who dread such developments takes place against a background of inequality, marginalisation, and division, said an ILO handout.
