European labour market
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.
Global Employment Trends 2013
04 February 2013
The crisis has forced millions of workers to seek new jobs but their skills are often not those that employers are seeking, and this skills mismatch is driving up unemployment levels.
Official visit
30 January 2013
Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, highlighted the need to turn informal employment into decent jobs in the formal sector. He spoke during a Latin America visit that took him to Buenos Aires and Lima.
Davos
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.
Global Employment Trends 2013
22 January 2013
Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, labour markets remain deeply depressed. Unemployment has started to rise again as the economic outlook worsens.
Employment update
22 October 2012
Slowing growth in many Asian countries has accentuated labour market challenges in a region that has the world’s largest youth population, and where precarious work is widespread.
Interview with The Times
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.
News item
30 July 2012
The public sector in the EU offers many highly qualified jobs and is a major source of employment for women. But increasingly, those positions are being lost to austerity policies.
News item
29 June 2012
As Mexicans go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president and legislature, the ILO presents a snapshot of the employment situation based on the May edition of "The Labour Situation in Latin America"*.
News item
07 May 2012
France has handed the presidency to François Hollande, the first Socialist to take the Elysee since 1995. Hollande, who campaigned on government stimulus programmes rather than on harsh austerity measures, is taking over a country with 10% unemployment. Interview with Raymond Torres, author of the recent ILO's World of Work, on French growth and employment strategy.