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December 2011
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Social security for all
01 December 2011
According to the ILO’s “World Social Security Report 2010/11”, only 20 per cent of the world’s working-age population has access to comprehensive social security systems.
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Gender equality is key to workplace responses to HIV and AIDS
01 December 2011
Gender inequality and HIV/AIDS are inextricably linked. Women account for just over 50 per cent of all people living with HIV.
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From sick to fit: Case management gaining ground as work reintegration tool
01 December 2011
With health care systems increasingly under pressure, and spending on disability benefits continuing to rise, a growing number of employers, governments and insurers are looking for ways to get injured or sick employees back to work. Patrick Moser, a Geneva-based journalist, reports.
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Migrants return to India
01 December 2011
To the boom tune of a strong Indian economy and cries of a global recession, a growing number of Indians are returning home to pursue promising careers.
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A changing world: Adapting to an ageing population in the workplace
01 December 2011
With better health and longevity, lower birth rates, and the ageing of baby boomers, the world is seeing a major change in demographic trends.
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Making markets work for jobs: The way out of the crisis
01 December 2011
The “World of Work Report 2011” calls for maintaining and in some cases strengthening pro-employment programmes, warning that efforts to reduce public debt and deficits have often disproportionately focused on labour market and social measures.
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A worsening global youth employment crisis
01 December 2011
Last October, the ILO issued its “Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 update”. The report warns of a “scarred” generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world.
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A lack of decent jobs
01 December 2011
In nearly all regions, the vast majority of people are not satisfied with the availability of quality jobs. The latter have been scarce, notably in the European Union, where only temporary jobs have shown an increase.
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A double-dip in employment?
01 December 2011
In a grim analysis issued on the eve of the G20 leaders summit in Cannes, France, the ILO says the global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that will further delay the global economic recovery and may ignite more social unrest in many countries.
August 2011
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Gender-based violence comes at high social and economic cost
01 August 2011
Gender-based violence negatively impacts the world of work. It is described by many as the most prevalent human rights violation in the world, with at least one in three women globally estimated to have been coerced into sex, physically beaten, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.