All ILO Newsroom content

August 2012

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   Article

   Is temp a trap?

   14 August 2012

   ILO News looks at young people trapped in temporary jobs with few prospects of moving to full-time employment. Ekkehard Ernst, Chief of the ILO’s Employment Trends Unit, says governments can help improve the situation.

April 2012

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   Video News Release

   Spanish youth: Facing the job crisis

   25 April 2012

   The global jobs crisis is hitting the younger generation hard. According to the ILO, worldwide over 75 million young people are out of work and the problem is especially acute in countries like Spain that have been hard hit by the Euro crisis.

October 2011

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   Video News Release

   Generation scarred by youth employment crisis

   19 October 2011

   The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned of a "scarred" generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world.

November 2010

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   Video News Release

   Argentina’s Response to Economic Crisis Through Social Protection

   16 November 2010

   Record unemployment is one of the consequences of the global economic crisis, but in Argentina, fewer jobs were lost in the crisis than in many other countries. A new report from the ILO found that’s because Argentina learned some lessons from a bitter experience in the past, and protected jobs when hard times came around again.

October 2009

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   ILO Convention 181

   Private Employment Agencies and the Asian Labour Market: An interview with Aranya Pakapath

   29 October 2009

   A project coordinator from the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), Aranya Pakapath participated in a workshop to promote the ratification of the ILO Private Employment Agencies Convention, no. 181. In an interview with ILO TV, she describes the situation some Asian workers face when hired by private employment agencies.

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   ILO Convention 181

   A Private Employment Agency Perspective: An interview with Fred van Haasteren

   29 October 2009

   Vice-President of the private employment agency Randstad, Fred van Haasteren participated in a workshop to promote the ratification of the ILO Private Employment Agencies Convention, no. 181. In an interview with ILO TV, he discusses the importance of having an international labour standard for private employment agencies and his support for further ratification of Convention 181.

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   ILO Convention 181

   ILO Convention 181 and the Italian Labour Market: An interview with Maria Riboni

   29 October 2009

   A representative from the trade union Federazione Italiana Lavoratori Commercio Turismo e Servizi (FILCAMS-CGIL), Maria Riboni participated in a workshop to promote the ratification of the ILO Private Employment Agencies Convention, no. 181. In an interview with ILO TV, she discusses the benefits of Convention 181 for workers in the Italian labour market. (in French)

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   ILO Convention 181

   The Benefits of Regulating the Private Employment Agency Industry: An interview with Annemarie Muntz

   29 October 2009

   Representing the International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies (CIETT), Annemarie Muntz participated in a workshop to promote the ratification of the ILO Private Employment Agencies Convention, no. 181. In an interview with ILO TV, she describes the benefits of the convention, not only for her industry, but also for workers and business.