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	 <title>Towards equal pay for work of equal value in Jordan  </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[A study by the National Steering Committee on Pay Equity (NSCPE) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on pay discrimination in private schools and universities in Jordan has found a stark pay gap between women and men and put forward legal amendments to promote equal remuneration for all workers.This video presents a real life case of a teacher who left the private education sector due to issues of gender pay discrimination which she faced.]]>
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	 <title>In the Philippines, decent and productive jobs need to be created, urges the ILO  

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	 	<![CDATA[Al Jazeera English reports from a small town in Batangas, Philippines called &quot;little Italy&quot; where most of its inhabitants have found work abroad. The remittances they have sent back changed its face from a village of coconut trees to Italian-style villas. However, the absence of these migrant workers comes at a cost to their children who have been left behind. Director Lawrence Jeff Johnson of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines talks to Al Jazeera English about migration as a choice and the importance of decent and productive work.]]>
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	 <title>Promoting Fire Safety in Bangladesh&#39;s Garment Factories </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[In March 2013 the tripartite constituents of the ILO - government, employers and workers - developed a National Tripartite Plan of Action on Fire Safety for the Ready-Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh.  It came about after two devastating fires at ready-made garment factories in 2012 and early 2013 killed 120 workers and injured many others. One of the activities in the Plan of Action, is to develop and deliver mass worker education tools, such as this video, to promote safety and health in the ready-made garments sector.]]>
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	 <title>ILO&#39;s Director-General visits a &quot;Hello-Work&quot; employment centre in Japan </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[On his first trip to Japan as ILO&#39;s Director-General, Guy Ryder visited one of the Japanese Public Employment Security (PES) Centres, also known as a &quot;Hello Work&quot; centre, which is part of a network that serves 170,000 people each day nationwide. He met with the staff of their largest &quot;Hello-Work&quot; office in Tokyo and saw how the employment security system worked from the job seeker&#39;s point of view.]]>
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	 <title>ILO welcomes Bangladesh safety accord, but urges respect of labour laws
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	 	<![CDATA[ILO&#39;s  Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo, welcomed the Bangladesh Accord on Building and Fire Safety but said additional issues such as labour laws, freedom of association and collective bargaining must be respected.  Speaking on CNN&#39;s World Business Today,  Mr Houngbo concluded that action should be taken now, &quot;to make sure we are not just talking the talk, but walking the walk&quot;.]]>
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	 <title>The new youth opportunities in Myanmar
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	 	<![CDATA[Listen to Steve Marshal, the ILO liaison officer in Yangon, and Sandar Soe, from the FTUB trade union federation, talk about the challenges and opportunities young workers are facing as the country undergoes a period of gradual reforms.]]>
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	 <title>Clothing retailer workplace safety agreement a &quot;breakthrough&quot;, says ILO
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	 	<![CDATA[Major clothing retailers have agreed to sign a workplace safety agreement, in an effort to avoid future tragedies such as the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, where over a thousand garment workers lost their lives.  Mr. Ryder told CNBC&#39;s &quot;Squawk Box&quot; that the agreement, which addresses worker safety and health issues, is a breakthrough,  but is only part of the answer.]]>
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	 <title>ILO&#39;s Director-General meets with the Chinese Vice Premier of the State Council Ma Kai</title>
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	 <title>ILO&#39;s Director-General visits China 
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	 	<![CDATA[On his first official visit to China, ILO&#39;s Director-General, Guy Ryder, visited the Beijing Haidian District Employment Centre, which serves 3.2 million job seekers. After meeting with officials of the Beijing Municipal Employment Service Centre and Haidian District Employment Centre, Mr Ryder was given a tour of the centre, and had the opportunity to talk to young job seekers.]]>
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	 <title>Denmark - Matching skills to jobs</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Recovery in Europe is being hampered by the fact that many of the workers who lost their jobs to the crisis do not have the skills that the labour market now demands. Vocational training programmes help keep youth connected to the labour market by ensuring they have the skills that companies are looking for.]]>
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	 <title>Global employment trends for youth 2013 - A generation at risk
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	 	<![CDATA[An estimated 73.4 million young people - 12.6 per cent – are expected to be out of work in 2013, and the picture is only set to get worse say Sara Elder and Theo Sparreboom, authors of the Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report.  Youth face persistent unemployment, a proliferation of temporary jobs and growing discouragement in advanced economies; and poor quality, informal, subsistence jobs in developing countries. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but as Sara Elder and Theo Sparreboom explain, there are measures that governments - as well as trade unions and employers - can take to boost youth employment.]]>
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	 <title>Policies for youth employment: A global framework to tackle the youth jobs crisis</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The current jobs crisis has hit young people especially hard.    The ILO urges policy makers to work together with social partners to address this alarming situation. The 2013 edition of the ILO&#39;s Global Employment Trends for Youth report analyses a number of key policies and action that can be taken.  Gianni Rosas, coordinator of the ILO Youth Employment Programme and co-author of the Report, calls for &quot;a strong focus on growth and jobs, including through a more coordinated macroeconomic response at national and global levels&quot;.]]>
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	 <title>Sweden tackles youth unemployment through jobs guarantees </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[It&#39;s not easy being a young jobseeker today. With nearly 74 million young people worldwide unemployed, youth guarantees programmes help keep youth connected to the labour market by boosting skills and giving them support to find jobs.]]>
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	 <title>Making the move from school to work in Malawi and Zambia</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The global jobs crisis is taking a heavy toll on young people in the advanced
economies of Europe where 1 in five are out of work, but in the developing world the situation is much more severe. Two out of three young people in developing countries are either unemployed or trying to survive day to day in low paying, irregular jobs. There is an
urgent need for training and education programs that prepare young people with the skills employers are looking for.]]>
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	 <title>ILO meets with social partners in Bangladesh following building collapse</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[CBC news reports on the ILO visit to Dhaka to meet with government, workers and employers organizations following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building, which resulted in deaths and serious injury of hundreds of garment workers.  Speaking at a press conference, the ILO&#39;s Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo, described Bangladesh as a victim of its own success with rapid manufacturing growth creating the need for a new &quot;modus operandi&quot;.]]>
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	 <title>Bangladesh building collapse tragedy could easily have been avoided, says ILO</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The challenge is for concrete action to be taken now, said the ILO&#39;s Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo in a live interview from Dhaka, with Al Jazeera English Newshour.   This will include passing a new labour law in Bangladesh, inspecting over 3500 factories, and importantly, creating a different working environment, where workers, employer and government are in dialogue to prevent any such future tragedies.]]>
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	 <title>Tackling Bonded Labour in Tamil Nadu
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	 	<![CDATA[In India&#39;s Tamil Nadu state, thousands of people desperate for money are offered advance payments to work in the region&#39;s many brick kilns. While this system has worked well enough in the past for both employers and workers, many workers run the risk of &quot;debt bondage&quot; because they cannot leave the worksite until they repay the advance in full. But the situation is changing now, by ILO working with government and employers, and showing workers how they can take more control of their own lives.]]>
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	 <title>Europe must &quot;Step off the Austerity Pedal&quot;, says ILO&#39;s Director General </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Talking to CNN&#39;s Richard Quest, ILO&#39;s Director General, Guy Ryder, said that it is now urgent that Europe holds back on austerity and focus more on employment measures. Ryder said that there is space and money to put into the economy, next step is the policy changes that will allow us to see positive outcomes for 2014.]]>
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	 <title>ILO&#39;s Director General says &quot;Everything can be done to change the situation&quot; in Bangladesh </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The Bangladesh disaster will happen again &quot;if action is not taken now&quot;, affirmed ILO&#39;s Director General Guy Ryder. Mr. Ryder, speaking to CNN&#39;s Richard Quest, urged authorities to take action for necessary measures. While everybody has a role to play in making these changes happen, it is &quot;in the governments capacity&quot; to implement a plan that will adopt a legislation in the field of labour.]]>
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	 <title>Creating a competitive labour force in the Philippines
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	 	<![CDATA[ABS-CBN News Channel&#39;s Inside Business with Coco Alcuaz interviewed Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines, and former Labour and Employment Secretary, Mr Bienvenido Laguesma, as part of Labour Day 2013. Mr. Johnson talked about achieving sustained and inclusive growth through decent and productive work. He further highlighted the need to address vulnerable employment and to enhance productivity and competitiveness in the Philippines.]]>
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