The ITF’s Youth Employment and Decent Work in Supply Chains policy sets an authoritative framework for ensuring decent jobs throughout supply chains
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has launched its policy on Youth Employment and Decent Work in Supply Chains to support affiliated trade unions, young transport workers and employers in taking practical steps to ensure decent jobs for young workers.
The policy, which includes a practical checklist and monitoring indicators, is the result of the work of the ITF Young Transport Workers’ Committee and was endorsed by the ITF Executive Board in Berlin last week.
“This policy reflects the voices, experiences and priorities of young transport workers across the organisation,” said Nick Loridan, Co‑Chair of the ITF Young Transport Workers’ Committee and member of the ITF Supply Chain Accountability Working Group.
“It combines strong principles with practical tools to help unions and employers promote youth employment and create decent jobs for young workers, whether they are already in the sector or entering the transport industry.”
The policy sets out clear principles and actions to improve access to decent jobs, ensure job security, and improve health and safety, equality, and career development for young transport workers. It also outlines ways to strengthen collaboration between unions, employers and policymakers, alongside identifying priority areas for action and wider policy measures for adoption in order to ensure the long-term success of youth employment strategies.
The policy includes a checklist outlining concrete steps employers can take on recruitment, training, retention, safety, wellbeing and inclusion to promote quality youth employment across supply chains.
Crucially, it also includes monitoring indicators, specifically designed to help trade unions, employers and stakeholders track progress, measure impact and strengthen accountability on youth employment and decent work outcomes for young workers.
ITF Director of Young Transport Workers, Baker Khundakji, said: “We encourage all young transport workers and ITF‑affiliated unions to actively use this policy, the checklist and the indicators to organise and educate young workers, negotiate collective bargaining agreements and workplace policies, hold employers accountable, and to work together to promote decent work for young transport workers across supply chains.”
The full policy, checklist and indicators are available here.
