ILO in Asia and the Pacific

What's new

1. New employment pattern offers opportunities but can be a two-edged sword
   

   Viet Nam’s labour market will see some significant changes when the amended Labour Code takes effect in May, recognizing the practice of labour dispatch, where workers are employed by one company and ”dispatched” to work in another company, as a new pattern of employment. Chief Technical Advisor on Industrial Relations of ILO Viet Nam, Yoon Youngmo, analyzes the issue.

2. Media Advisory

   Promoting decent work for domestic workers

   Good practices, new initiatives and innovative ways to promote decent work for domestic workers will be the focus of a regional knowledge-sharing forum, to be held from 24-26 April in Bangkok.

   ส่งเสริมงานดีมีคุณค่าให้ลูกจ้างทำงานบ้าน
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   Labour relations

   ILO and Fair Work Commission sign MOU on labour dispute resolution

   The ILO and the Australian workplace relations tribunal signed a memorandum of understanding to provide technical assistance in the area of labour dispute resolution.

4. Newsletter

   News@ILO, April 2013

   The April 2013 e-newsletter of the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific contains the latest news from ILO in the region, a feature article on reconstruction in Japan, a selection of the latest publications, and forthcoming events and meetings.

5. Media Advisory

   Meeting on the new Thai Ministerial Regulation on Domestic Workers

   A media briefing on the new Thai Ministerial Regulation on Domestic Workers will be held in Bangkok on 10 March 2013 at the Chaophya Park Hotel.

   การประชุมเกี่ยวกับกฎกระทรวงว่าด้วยลูกจ้างทำงานบ้านฉบับใหม่ของไทย
6. ILO publishes annual report on global employment trends and the jobs crisis

   The ILO launched its annual report, “Global Employment Trends 2013” (GET) on 22 January. Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment.
   
   

   1. Global Employment Trends 2013
   2. Executive Summary
   3. Facts and Figure by Region
   4. Relevant Information
7. Asia leads world in domestic worker numbers, but legal protection, working conditions lag

   More than 21 million people across Asia and the Pacific – 80 per cent of them women – are employed as domestic workers, according to a new report by the ILO. The report, Domestic workers across the world, estimates that 52.6 million people worldwide – more than four out of five of them women – are employed as domestic workers, a group equivalent to the entire working population of Viet Nam.
   

   1. Domestic workers across the world report
   2. Domestic workers deserve a better deal - Opinion editorial
   3. Relevant information
   4. Q & A session on domestic workers, Monday 14 January 2013
8. Lao PDR launches first labour force and child labour survey
   

   The first survey of the labour force and child labour in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic was launched in Vientiane by the Government of Lao PDR with the support of the ILO.

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   ILO Director-General's visit to Asia

   ILO Director-General Guy Ryder made his first visit to Asia after assuming his post in October 2012. He visited Thailand, 13-16 December 2012, when he met the Prime Minister, the Minister of Labour, representatives of workers and employers, and visited project sites where he met migrant workers. Mr Ryder visited the Philippines, 16-18 December, where he met the President and the President of Asian Development Bank.

   1. Director-General in Thailand
   2. Director-General in the Philippines
10. Wages in Asia outperform other regions - new ILO report
    

    Wages in Asia have outperformed those in most other parts of the world, including the Western economies, according to a new report from the ILO. Between 2000 and 2011 wages in Asia almost doubled. Globally real average monthly wages grew by just under a quarter in the same period, while in the developed word the increase was only around 5 per cent over the entire period.
    

    Video clips of ILO specialists' comments on implications on Asia