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December 2010

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   Video interview

   Global Wage Report 2010/2011: An Interview with the ILO's Manuela Tomei

   15 December 2010

   With the launch of the ILO's Global Wage Report 2010/2011, ILO TV interviews Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL). Based on an analysis of wages in 115 countries, the report says the financial and economic crisis cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009. The increasing discrepancy between low-wage and high-wage earners has had a deleterious effect on consumption worldwide. The interview highlights how several national recovery schemes and measures have worked to buffer wage stagnation and avoid lay offs, thus hastening a sustainable economic recovery.

October 2008

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   Gender campaign

   Equal Pay in Portugal’s Restaurants

   08 October 2008

   No matter how old, how experienced, how well educated or what the job, women are still paid less than men, all over the world. And traditional “women’s work” has always been chronically undervalued. But what if there was a tool that evaluates jobs based on the requirements of the job and not whether women or men perform them? It exists, and it’s being used in an unlikely place: behind the scenes of Portugal’s busiest restaurants.