Event

The Role of Employers’ Organizations in Matching Skills and Increasing Mobility Across the ASEAN Region: Employers’ Regional Workshop – ASEAN TRIANGLE Project

To support national employers’ organizations in responding to issues related to skills and mobility, the ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) organized a regional workshop in the framework of the ASEAN TRIANGLE project. Through presentations by regional and global experts and open discussion between ASEAN employers, the workshop aimed to increase businesses’ understanding of the implications of skilled labour mobility and to discuss challenges and good practices of employers in relation to migration in all skill categories.

Country brief

Youth Employment and Migration in Philippines

12 August 2013

Youth aged 15-24 account for more than 17 million of the overall 92.3 million Filipino populationi. With the 25-29 age group, the young generation in the Philippines comes up to 27.5 per cent of the total population. Almost one in three Filipino youth (29.4 per cent) comes from poor families. As an increasing number of young people are entering the labour force, the demographic pressure exacerbates tensions on the labour market, impacting youth labour market outcomes.

Publication

Review of remittance-backed products in the Philippines

09 August 2013

This reviews the Philippine remittance environment and provides the reader with what are considered current and cutting-edge in the Philippine remittance environment, how the existing industry practices and regulatory measures can contribute to development gains, the gaps and hindrances that could be addressed through regulation, competition, or improvement of financial mindsets.

Statement

Opening address at the mobility of health professionals between the Philippines and selected EU member States: a policy dialogue

23 July 2013

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the mobility of health professionals between the Philippines and selected EU member States: a policy dialogue, Makati City, Philippines, 23 July 2013

Document

ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

28 May 2013

Background information on the ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

Press release

International Nurses’ Day: EU and ILO Manila promote decent work agenda for Filipino health professionals

06 May 2013

Thousands of Filipino health professionals migrate every year for work raising important questions related to the global shortage and inequitable distribution of health professionals in and between many countries.

Article

Philippines: Boosting entrepreneurship to ease jobs crisis

16 July 2012

One third of the Philippines population live in poverty, and thousands head out every day to work abroad. The ILO is promoting entrepreneurship as an alternative to hard-to-get wage jobs and migration.

Migrant workers

A case study of Thai migrant workers in Sweden

05 June 2012

A case study of Thai migrant workers exploited in Sweden is one of the two case studies produced under the International Labour Organization–European Union Project Going Back–Moving On: Economic and Social Empowerment of Migrants, including Victims of Trafficking, Returned from European Union and Neighbouring Countries (2009-12).

Project

Tripartite Action for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers in the ASEAN Region (ASEAN TRIANGLE project)

01 May 2012

The Project aims to significantly reduce the exploitation of labour migrants in the region through increased legal and safe migration and improved labour protection.

Memorandum of Understanding

Memorandum of Understanding on labour cooperation between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines represented by the Department of Labor and Employment and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan represented by the Ministry of Labour

27 May 2010