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December 2012
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Global Wage Report 2012/13
Economic crisis leads to huge changes in working practices
10 December 2012
Large numbers of employees are getting lower wages because they are working fewer hours and doing less overtime. Many are also ‘work sharing’ - in order to avoid being laid off.
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Global Wage Report 2012/13
Wage growth slows globally despite increases in emerging countries
07 December 2012
New ILO figures show a continuing slowdown in global wages in developed countries and some resilience in emerging economies.
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Global Wage Report 2012/13
Workers getting a smaller slice of the pie
07 December 2012
Workers have been getting a smaller share of national income, as a bigger slice has gone to profits in most countries. This trend has wide-ranging economic and social implications.
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Global Wage Report 2012/13
The broken link: Wages & productivity
07 December 2012
Productivity is growing worldwide but wages are not keeping pace. That’s one of the conclusions of the Global Wage Report by the International Labour Organization. The report also confirms a continuing trend: employees in developing and emerging economies are earning more than they were before the global economic crisis began while workers in richer, developed countries are seeing their pay stagnate or even decline.
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Public Service Announcement
SCORE: Small & Medium Enterprise are key to development
07 December 2012
SCORE -'Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises'- is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO that supports the sustainable growth of small and medium enterprises in order to foster development in emerging economies. Partnering with local employers' organizations and training institutions, SCORE helps SMEs adopt socially responsible and environmentally sustainable work methods that boost their productivity.
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Global Wage Report 2012/13
Minimum wages key to cutting working poverty, says ILO
07 December 2012
Minimum wages reduce working poverty and protect vulnerable workers. Their levels reflect both the needs of workers and the prevailing economic conditions and level of national income.
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Europe
Competitiveness and employment: Trying to square the circle
05 December 2012
Cutting costs can help a country become more competitive and boost exports as a result. But, as attractive as it may seem, EU countries, which trade heavily among themselves, cannot all gain a competitive edge at the same time.
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Video
One-Plus-One Disability Cultural Centre
03 December 2012
This video is a CCTV News interview with Jin Lin from One-Plus-One Cultural Centre in Beijing and Ann Herbert, Director, ILO Beijing.
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Indonesia
Fighting disability from within
03 December 2012
Indonesia’s law states that disabled people must make up at least one per cent of a company’s workforce. As some garment factories employ over 100,000 people, the challenge is not an easy one. But now the law has found a new ally.
November 2012
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Public Service Announcement
Jada Pinkett Smith: End Slavery Now!
30 November 2012
Today, 21 million women, men and children are trapped in slavery all over the world. Jada Pinkett Smith has teamed up with the ILO and its new campaign End Slavery Now, and so can you!