News

December 2013

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   First W4Y Regional Meeting

   Decent jobs for youth should be at the top of African Development agenda, says ILO

   03 December 2013

   Informality and vulnerable employment remain the reality for the vast majority of young workers in the region, says a new ILO report prepared for the Work4Youth Regional Conference that is taking place this week in Addis Ababa.

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   News item

   ILO report calls for job-centred growth policies in Kenya

   02 December 2013

   Kenya needs to adopt a coherent national employment strategy to achieve a more equitable economic growth, says the ILO.

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   Social Protection

   Palestinian Authority to adopt private sector social security scheme by 2015

   02 December 2013

   The National Social Security Committee has unveiled a proposed social security scheme covering pensions, and maternity and employment injury benefits to be financed by both employers and workers

November 2013

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   Philippines

   ILO: Service sector severely affected by typhoon Haiyan

   28 November 2013

   Half of the workers affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan were working in the service sector, said the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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   Child labour

   Lebanon pledges to end the worst forms of child labour by 2016

   07 November 2013

   Lebanese President Michel Suleiman announces the launch of a national action plan to eliminate child labour in its worst forms within three years.

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   More and better jobs

   Labour standards increasingly included in bilateral and regional free trade agreements

   07 November 2013

   A new ILO report shows free trade agreements with measures relating to labour standards are on the rise and recommends measures to improve their effectiveness.

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   Employment policies

   ILO report says additional measures needed to tackle Portugal jobs crisis

   04 November 2013

   With unprecedented levels of unemployment and declining investment, a new ILO report describes the socio-economic situation of the country as “critical”.

October 2013

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   Projections from ECLAC and ILO

   Latin American and Caribbean unemployment rate could fall to 6.2% in 2013

   30 October 2013

   Agencies state that this would be a slight decrease in relation to 2012, owing to a slowdown in the labour participation rate.

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   319th Governing Body of the ILO

   Ryder: Global employment pressured by weak economic recovery

   28 October 2013

   ILO Director-General points to growing awareness of the importance of employment-centred strategies to strengthen the recovery.

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   Third Global Conference on Child Labour

   ILO chief: World needs to turn plans to end child labour into urgent action

   10 October 2013

   “More than ever our focus must be on action and results as well as process,” says Guy Ryder at the end of the Third Global Conference on Child Labour.