Working conditions
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In the field of working conditions, the Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe is currently focusing on wages. After recovering from the initial shocks associated with the transition toward a market economy, most countries in Central and Eastern Europe experienced economic growth and rising wages from the mid-1990s until the economic and financial crisis, which began in 2008. Some countries that were closely intertwined with global trade and foreign banking systems, such as Hungary, were hit by the crisis at the beginning while others like Albania and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, experienced it a little later. A book on “The Wage Impact of the Crisis in South-East Europe” and a series of working papers on wage developments in the context of the economic and financial crisis were published in 2012. More
What's new
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SCORE
Step by step: Albanian textile and footwear factories improve productivity and working conditions
08 March 2024
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Ukraine
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant workers subjected to forced labour by Russian forces, say trade unions
01 June 2023
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International Labour Standards
“Ukraine works!” 5-year ILO project closes with improved occupational health and safety standards and more effective State Labour Inspectorate
30 May 2023
Publications
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The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
The gender and motherhood wage gap
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Romania
The largest drop in income inequality in the European Union during the Great Recession