GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Office (ILO) is to issue its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET) (Note 1) providing a comprehensive analysis of current global employment, unemployment and labour market trends.
The report analyses the impact on the labour markets of a wide range of factors, ranging from population and economic growth to economic turbulence stemming from the credit crisis in industrialized countries, rising oil prices, and a projected slowdown in economic growth.
The Global Employment Trends 2008 is to be made available as of 22 January under embargo for publication on or after 23:00 GMT on 23 January 2008.
The report and associated materials will be available to the media on request to the ILO Department of Communication and other ILO offices in the world. Please contact communication@ilo.org or local ILO offices. A PDF file of the report will also be available upon request in English, French, and Spanish. A press release will be available by 22 January under embargo as stated above.
For Geneva correspondents: A press briefing, under embargo, will be held on the GET with Mr. José M. Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, ILO Employment Sector, Ms. Dorothea Schmidt, economist in the ILO Employment Trends Unit, author of the report, and Mr. Lawrence J. Johnson, chief of the ILO Employment Trends Unit, in Press Room III, Palais des Nations on Tuesday 22 January at 11.45 a.m.
Video coverage of the press conference as well as video interviews with the authors of the report will be available for broadcasters. Please contact the Department of Communication/Radio and TV Unit on +4122/799-7935 or by emailing Naets-Sekiguchi@ilo.org.
Interviews can be scheduled via the Department of Communication with ILO experts on employment trends. For further details please contact Laetitia Dard at dard@ilo.org or +4122/799-8272, +4178/685-0117.
Note 1 - Global Employment Trends 2008, International Labour Office, Geneva. ISBN 978-92-2-120911-9 (print) -- 978-92-2-120912-6 (web pdf).
Global Employment Trends have been produced and published on a yearly basis since 2003. Special editions were published to analyse labour market trends for youth (2004 and 2006), women (2004 and 2007), for certain regions, for example Global Employment Trends Supplement for Europe and Central Asia, 2005 and African Employment Trends (2007) and, on special occasions, following events such as the Tsunami (2005) and the earthquake in Pakistan (2005).