| Abbreviation | ALO |
|---|---|
| Formation | January 12, 1965 |
| Type | NGO, Non-Profit |
| Headquarters | Giza , Egypt |
Region | Arab World |
Membership | 21 states |
Official language | Arabic |
Director General | H.E. Fayez Almutairi |
Parent organization | League of Arab States |
| Affiliations | 6 |
| Website | alolabor |
The Arab Labor Organization [1] (ALO) is the first Specialized Arab Organization concerned with labor affairs and employment issues on National Level. It was established in 12/01/1965, as one of the specialized organizations affiliated with the League of Arab States. [2] ALO is believing in the importance of concerted tripartite in the Arab world, as a need and a core pillar for Arab unity and the recognition that cooperation in the field of employment is the best guarantee for the Arab human rights in decent life, founded on social justice, and the process of effective cooperation for developing Arab society on solid and sound foundations, therefore ALO has a unique tripartite structure in the Arab world gives an opportunity to (workers, employers and governments of 21 Arab countries) to freely debate, elaborate and shape labor standards, policies and programs.
On the 12th of January 1965, the first Conference of Arab Ministers of Labor, held in Baghdad, approved the Arab Labor Charter and the draft Constitution of the Arab Labor Organization. On the 8th of January 1970, the fifth Conference of Arab Labor Ministers, in Cairo, decided to announce the establishment of the Arab Labor Organization after the completion of the necessary number of ratifications of Member States on the Arab Labor Charter and the Constitution of the Organization. The resolution to declare the organization was in response to the national trend, looking forward to achieve unity in various fields.
ALO has 21 Arab State Members:
| # | Country | Join Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jordan | 1969 |
| 2 |  UAE | 1972 |
| 3 |  Bahrain | 1977 |
| 4 |  Tunisia | 1973 |
| 5 |  Algeria | 1971 |
| 6 |  Djibouti | 1978 |
| 7 |  KSA | 1976 |
| 8 |  Sudan | 1966 |
| 9 |  Syria | 1965 |
| 10 |  Somalia | 1974 |
| 11 |  Iraq | 1965 |
| 12 |  Oman | 1983 |
| 13 |  Palestine | 1972 |
| 14 |  Qatar | 1972 |
| 15 |  Kuwait | 1968 |
| 16 |  Lebanon | 1971 |
| 17 |  Libya | 1970 |
| 18 |  Egypt | 1966 |
| 19 |  Morocco | 1973 |
| 20 |  Mauritania | 1974 |
| 21 |  Yemen | 1968 |
Arab Labor Organization aims to achieve the following :
Since 1966, Arab Labor Organization has maintained and developed a system of Arab labor standards aimed at promoting opportunities for workers to obtain decent and productive work, in conditions of equity, security, dignity, safe and healthy. These standards have become a comprehensive system of instruments on work policy, designed to address most sorts of problems in their application at the national level. Arab labor standards are legal instruments drawn up by the ALO's constituents (governments, employers and workers) and setting out basic principles and rights at work. They are either conventions, which are legally binding the member states who ratified them, or recommendations, which serve as non-binding guidelines.
ALO Issued (19) Conventions and (9) recommendations, which organized all aspects of the legal instruments relating to work, to ensure workers' rights and regulate the relationship between workers and employers, to define the responsibilities and duties of tripartite. By its Conventions and Recommendations, ALO is developing and promoting national labor legislation, to achieve symmetry between them, believing that national labor inspection is the proper way to guarantee the implementation of the legislation's provisions. [3]
| # | Issue Year | About | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1966 | Labor standards | Download |
| 2 | 1967 | Manpower mobility | Download |
| 3 | 1971 | Minimum standard of social insurance | Download |
| 4 | 1975 | Manpower mobility (revised) | Download |
| 5 | 1976 | Working women | Download |
| 6 | 1976 | Labor standards (revised) | Download |
| 7 | 1977 | Occupational Safety and Health | Download |
| 8 | 1977 | Freedom and right of Association | Download |
| 9 | 1977 | Vocational Guiding And training | Download |
| 10 | 1979 | Paid educational leave | Download |
| 11 | 1979 | Collective Bargaining | Download |
| 12 | 1980 | Agricultural workers | Download |
| 13 | 1981 | Working Environment | Download |
| 14 | 1981 | The right of the Arab worker in social insurance in case of mobility to work in another country | Download |
| 15 | 1983 | Fixing and protection of wages | Download |
| 16 | 1983 | Worker social services | Download |
| 17 | 1993 | Rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons | Download |
| 18 | 1996 | Work of Young Persons | Download |
| 19 | 1998 | Labor inspection | Download |
| # | Issue Year | About | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1977 | Occupational Safety and Health | Download |
| 2 | 1977 | Vocational Guiding And training | Download |
| 3 | 1979 | Paid educational leave | Download |
| 4 | 1980 | Development and protection of the labor force in the agricultural sector | Download |
| 5 | 1981 | Working Environment | Download |
| 6 | 1983 | Worker social services | Download |
| 7 | 1993 | Rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons | Download |
| 8 | 1998 | Labor inspection | Download |
| 9 | 2014 | Social protection of workers in the informal sector | Download |
It is the Supreme authority of the organization. ALO organizes once a year the Arab Labor Conference to set the broad policies of the ALO, including conventions and recommendations. The conference makes decisions about the ALO's general policy, work plan and budget and also elects the Board of Directors and Director General. Each Member State is represented by a delegation: two government delegates, an employer delegate, a worker delegate and their respective advisers. International and regional organizations, also attend but as observers.
ALO has a tripartite governing structure that brings together governments, employers, and workers of 21 member States. The very structure of ALO, where workers and employers together have an equal voice with governments in its deliberations, ensures that the views of the social partners are closely reflected in ALO labor standards, policies and plans. It meets twice a year, in March and October. It takes decisions on the agenda of the Arab Labor Conference, adopts the draft Plan and Budget of the Organization for submission to the Arab labor Conference, and supervises the work of ALO.
This Board of Directors is composed of 8 titular members (4 Governments, 2 Employers and 2 Workers) and 3 deputy members (one represents each group).
The Government, Employers and Workers seats are elected by the General Conference every two years (the last elections were held in April 2018).
The Arab Labor Office is the permanent secretariat of the Arab Labor Organization. It is located in Cairo – Egypt, the headquarters state, according to the constitution. It is headed by the Director General whose one of his responsibilities is to implement the resolutions of the General Conference and the board of directors.
 | H.E. FAYEZ ALMUTAIRI Nationality: He was elected as Director-General of ALO in April 2015 for four years and re-elected as Director-General for a second four year-term in April 2019, and for a third four years-term in Mars 2023. |
 | H.E. AHMED LUQMAN Nationality: He was elected as Director-General of ALO in 2007 for four years and re-elected for a second four year-term in 2011. |
 | H.E. DR. IBRAHIM QWEIDER Nationality: He was elected as Director-General of ALO in 1999 for four years and re-elected for a second four year-term in 2003. |
 | H.E. BAKR RASOOL Nationality: He was elected as Director-General of ALO in 1990 for five years and re-elected for a second five year-term in 1995. Due to the amendment to paragraph 4 of Article 6 of the ALO constitution, his term was ended in 1999. |
 | H.E. AL-HASHEMI AL-BANANI Nationality: He was elected as Director-General of ALO in 1980 for five years and re-elected for a second five year-term in 1985. |
 | H.E. TAYEB AL-HOUDAIRY Nationality: He was elected as the first Director-General of ALO in 1972 for five years and re-elected for a second five year-term in 1977, but he resigned in 1980. |
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