Comment and analysis
2019
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International Labour Standards
Convention No 1: A landmark for Workers’ Rights
13 November 2019
100 years ago the first International Labour Conference adopted the first International Labour Standard – on working time. As the ILO celebrates this landmark moment, ILO Working Time specialist, Jon Messenger, looks back at the history of the Convention and its impact.
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Blog
Tech’s persistent gender gap
12 November 2019
Tech’s persistent gender gap is well documented, but it might surprise you to learn that the gulf transcends national wealth and development lines.
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Blog
At least 44'000 work stoppages since 2010
04 November 2019
Effective social dialogue is a key means to promote better wages and working conditions. But when it fails, work stoppages may ensue. ILO data show that this has happened at least 44 thousand times since 2010.
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Blog
Work and employment are not synonyms
30 October 2019
Work and employment may be used indistinctly in everyday language, but for the labour market they mean very different things. Employment is a very specific form of work. Other forms of work include volunteer work, unpaid trainee work and work for own use.
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
A more effective labour market approach to fighting poverty
17 October 2019
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Blog
Young people are far more likely to be in working poverty
16 October 2019
While absolute poverty and working poverty rates have fallen, there are still major disparities across age groups, genders and countries.
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Article
What Asian countries should not miss while preparing the future of work
03 October 2019
OpEd by ILO economists Sara Elder, Christian Viegelahn and Tejeshwi Nath Bhattarai, authors of 'Preparing for the future of work: National policy responses in ASEAN +6', a study of how ASEAN+6 countries are preparing their labour markets for technological, climate and demographic changes.
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Blog
Older workers are most discouraged in these countries
01 October 2019
Australia and Chile, 13,000 kilometres apart, have one thing in common: discouraged older workers.
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Article
Future of work takes centre stage at UNGA
24 September 2019
ILO-led discussions relating to the future of work played a key role at the UN General Assembly in New York. Follow the highlights here.
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G7 Biarritz Summit
The workplace equality challenge
22 August 2019
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has welcomed the decision to place the fight against inequality at the heart of this year’s G7 summit. Ryder, who will be attending the 24 to 26 August summit in Biarritz, France, called inequality one of the key challenges of our time.