GENEVA (ILO News) ─The International Labour Office (ILO) is to launch a new study, entitled Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence on Tuesday 25 November that examines major trends in wages worldwide over the past decade, and provides a forecast of wage evolution in 2009 due to the global financial crisis.
The 100-page study analyses the trends in the level and the distribution of wages around the world in recent years and the role of minimum wages and collective bargaining. An updated analysis includes a new estimate of the impact of the financial crisis on wages in 2009 based on the latest IMF growth figures.
The report, along with a press release and executive summary, will be posted on the ILO website as of 25 November, 23.00 GMT and be available for publication after that time.
For the media. Copies or PDF files of the report, press release and executive summary are to be made available upon request as of 24 November under embargo for publication on or after 23:00 GMT on 25 November 2008.
For Geneva correspondents. A press briefing, under embargo, will be held on the Global wage report with Ms Manuela Tomei, Chief of the Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (ILO), Mr. Patrick Belser and Mr. Sangheon Lee, co-authors of the report in Press Room III, Palais des Nations on Tuesday 25 November at 11.30 a.m.
Interviews can be scheduled via the Department of Communication with ILO experts on global wages. For more information, please contact the Department of Communication at +4122/799-7912, communication@ilo.org.
Video coverage of the press conference as well as video interviews with the authors of the report will be available for broadcasters. Please contact the Department of Communication/Radio and TV Unit on +4122/799-7935 or by emailing Naets-Sekiguchi@ilo.org. Broadcast facilities (TV studio and ISDN line) are available for broadcasters wishing to interview the author by contacting the above.
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