News

June 2013

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   102nd International Labour Conference

   Van Rompuy: Growth and jobs are the ultimate goal of all reforms

   14 June 2013

   Ahead of the European Council meeting, European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, addresses the International Labour Conference and says that the ILO has a key role to play in helping to address the challenges that Europe faces.

April 2013

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   © Andreas Solaro / AFP 2013

   European labour market

   Ten million more unemployed in Europe than in 2008

   08 April 2013

   Austerity measures have not addressed the root causes of the crisis nor have they brought down unemployment, according to a snapshot of EU countries based on an upcoming ILO report on the state of global labour markets.

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   © Leon Neal / AFP 2013

   Youth employment crisis

   EU-wide youth guarantees: ILO at the ready

   04 April 2013

   The ILO will cooperate with the European Commission in tackling the employment crisis facing young people, including through youth guarantee schemes.

March 2013

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   Europe

   Balance between fiscal discipline and growth is needed, says European Parliament President

   22 March 2013

   The head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, highlights common ground with the ILO on the need to move beyond austerity in the crisis response, on the importance of decent work and in the debate on the post-2015 development goals.

January 2013

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   Davos

   Jobs crisis is far from over, warns ILO chief

   25 January 2013

   Speaking at the World Economic Summit in Davos, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, said that the dire jobs situation shows the crisis is far from over.

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   Youth employment

   ILO Chief: Less austerity, more investment needed to tackle youth jobs crisis

   11 January 2013

   Failing to act on the youth jobs crisis would sow the seeds of social unrest and destroy hopes for sustainable growth. That is a cost the world cannot afford, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said at a conference on youth employment in Budapest.

October 2012

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   Interview with The Times

   ILO Chief warns of austerity’s ‘toxic’ impact

   03 October 2012

   In an interview with The Times newspaper, the head of ILO warned that austerity measures in southern European countries risk having “quite harmful consequences”. He was more positive about the outlook in Britain.

August 2012

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   Labour standards

   Milestone ratifications of seafarers’ labour rights charter

   20 August 2012

   The ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention has now been ratified by 30 countries, meaning it will go into effect in a year’s time. The charter sets out the labour rights of the world’s 1.2 million seafarers.

July 2012

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   Eurozone risks losing a further 4.5 million jobs

   11 July 2012

   A report by the ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies says a concerted policy shift towards job creation is needed in order to reverse the heavy unemployment crisis affecting the single-currency area.

May 2012

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   News item

   Eurozone: “Extreme policies could produce extreme reactions”, ILO head warns

   30 May 2012

   ILO Chief cautions against harsh policies that could provoke a reaction from people in the hardest hit Eurozone countries.