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November 2009 

• Workplace solutions for childcare
  Workplace partnerships are effective for working parents considering childcare solutions. The focus of this book is on why workplace partners around the world have become involved in childcare and about the nature of programmes that have been implemented. ...
• The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU
  This book assesses the renewed interest in the minimum wage in Europe, looking at the main explanatory factors alongside EU enlargement and the advent of globalization. ...
• Application of Convention No. 169 by domestic and international courts in Latin America - A casebook - [pdf 1746 KB]
  This Casebook contains summaries of judicial decisions from ten countries in Latin America, as well as a selection of relevant judgements and reports from the Inter- American human rights system. The introduction sets out the context of the national legal systems of the countries concerned and gives an overview of the types of cases selected. ...
• Facts on Disability and Decent Work - [pdf 187 KB]
  People with disabilities represent an estimated 10 per cent of the world’s population, or some 650 million people worldwide. Approximately 470 million are of working age.
• Global Wage Report: 2009 Update - [pdf 767 KB]
  The present report is an update of the Global Wages Report 2008/09 released in November 2008. While a comprehensive assessment will be provided in the next full Global Wage Report in 2010, the present update already provides some indications of wage trends up to the second quarter of 2009 in a number of countries around the world.
• Conference Committee on the Application of Standards: Extracts from the Record of Proceedings (ILC 2009) - [pdf 8313 KB]
  International Labour Conference - Ninety-eighth Session, Geneva, 2009
• News@ILO, November 2009 - [pdf 65 KB]
  The November edition of the ILO's Asia Pacific e-newsletter contains the latest news from the regional office, a feature on migration policy in Thailand, a selection of the latest publications, and details of forthcoming events and meetings.

October 2009 

• Lists of indicators of trafficking in human beings - [pdf 688 KB]
  List of the indicators of trafficking validated through the Delphi methodology at the European Union level
• Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategy to support member States capacities to development policies and programmes focused on youth employment - [pdf 1889 KB]
• International Journal of Labour Research Trade union strategies towards global production systems (Vol. I/1) - Buy now
  International Journal of Labour Research is a new journal launched in Fall 2009 by the Bureau of Workers' Activities of the ILO. Its aim is to provide an overview of recent research on labour and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. ...
• Using the ILO Code of Practice and training manual - Guidelines for trade unions - [pdf 218 KB]
• Using the ILO Code of Practice and training manual - Guidelines for employers - [pdf 213 KB]
• Key indicators of the labour market (KILM). Sixth edition (CD-ROM) (E/F/S) - Buy now
  This valuable, wide-ranging reference tool meets the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. The design of the KILM interactive software -available in English, French and Spanish - allows users to customize their searches by any combination of indicator, economy, year, data inputs or other specific research needs. ...
• Globalization and Informal jobs in Developing Countries - A joint study from the International Labour Organization and the WTO - [pdf 1261 KB]
  This study is a product of the collaborative research programme of the International Institute for Labour Studies at the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO). ...
• The ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Populations, 1957 (No.107) and the laws of Bangladesh: A comparative Review - [pdf 242 KB]
  The initial idea of undertaking this study came about in 2005 as a result of increasing requests by indigenous peoples’ organizations in Bangladesh for the ILO to re-open dialogue with the Government of Bangladesh on implementation of ILO’s Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (No. 107). Although Convention No. ...
• Private employment agencies, temporary agency workers and their contribution to the labour market. WPEAC/2009 - Buy now
  Private employment agencies play an important role in the functioning of contemporary labour markets. They act as intermediaries in modern labour markets, allowing enterprises greater flexibility to increase or decrease their workforces, while ensuring for the workers sufficient security in terms of job opportunities and employment standards, including pay, working time and training.
• News@ILO, October 2009 - [pdf 67 KB]
  The first edition of the e-newsletter from the ILO Regional Office in Asia and the Pacific contains five sections. ...

September 2009 

• Growth, employment and poverty reduction in Indonesia - Buy now
  This timely study examines the impact of policies on growth, employment and poverty reduction in Indonesia, reviewing the periods both before and after the 1997 financial crisis and drawing important implications for today's policy-makers.
• Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation
  This training manual – developed by ILO and UNICEF under the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking – seeks to aid governments, workers, employers, international, and non-governmental organizations that combat trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other exploitation.
• Fighting forced labour: The example of Brazil - Buy now
  Brazil has been successfully fighting forced labour since 1995, when a new inter-ministerial body was created to coordinate action against it. Government agencies, employers' and workers' organizations, civil society and others have participated in the struggle.