News

January 2013

1. 

   Official visit

   ILO head in Latin America: More, but also better jobs are needed

   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.

2. 

   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.

3. 

   Global Employment Trends 2013

   Rise of middle-class jobs in the developing world could spur growth

   23 January 2013

   390 million additional “middle class” workers projected by 2017, but 1.5 billion workers remain either poor or near poor.

4. 

   Global Employment Trends 2013

   Global unemployment rising again but with significant differences across regions

   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.

5. 

   Survey

   More than 1.3 million child labourers in Yemen

   15 January 2013

   A survey shows that 17 per cent of Yemen’s 7.7 million children aged 5-17 are child labourers, most of them performing unpaid work.

6. 

   Arab Spring

   ILO head hails signing of Tunisian social contract

   14 January 2013

   The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, witnessed the signing of a key social stability pact in Tunisia, which coincided with the two-year anniversary of the start of the Arab Spring.

7. 

   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.

8. 

   Working conditions

   Longest, most unpredictable hours – the plight of the domestic worker

   09 January 2013

   Despite legislation limiting working time in most countries, domestic workers are amongst the least protected and suffer health issues as a result.

9. 

   New survey

   More than 52 million domestic workers worldwide

   09 January 2013

   Millions of domestic workers around the world remain excluded from protection enjoyed by other workers, says a new ILO report.

December 2012

1. 

   Global Wage Report 2012/13

   Gender pay gap drops, but not for the right reasons

   19 December 2012

   An ILO report says women’s pay has become closer to that of men in most countries but warns that in some cases this may just mean that men are worse off now than before the crisis.