BANGKOK (ILO News) – The International Labour Office (ILO) will issue its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET) next week, providing a comprehensive analysis of current global employment, unemployment and labour market trends.

The report analyses the impact on the labour markets of a wide range of factors, ranging from population and economic growth to economic turbulence stemming from the credit crisis in industrialized countries, rising oil prices, and a projected slowdown in economic growth.

Embargoed copies of the Global Employment Trends 2008 will be available from Tuesday 22 January for publication on or after 23:00 GMT on Wednesday 23 January 2008 (6am Bangkok time, Thursday 24 January).

The report (in PDF file in English, French or Spanish), press release and associated materials will be available to the media on request and under embargo from ILO offices and the ILO Department of Communication (contacts below).

Global Employment Trends reports have been produced and published annually since 2003. Special editions were published to analyse labour market trends for youth (2004 and 2006), women (2004 and 2007) and following events such as the Tsunami (2005) and the earthquake in Pakistan (2005). Some regional reports have also been produced; for example Global Employment Trends Supplement for Europe & Central Asia, (2005) and African Employment Trends (2007).

Interviews can be scheduled with ILO experts, either in Asia or from ILO HQ in Geneva .  For further details please see contacts below.

Video material is available: including interviews with Ms. Dorothea Schmidt, economist in the ILO Employment Trends Unit and author of the report, and Mr. Lawrence J. Johnson, chief of the ILO Employment Trends Unit. Footage of the launch press conference in Geneva will also be available. Please contact Karen Naets- Sekiguchi at the ILO Department of Communication/Radio and TV Unit: +4122/799-7935.   Naets-Sekiguchi@ilo.org

For more information and to schedule interviews please contact:

Sophy Fisher
Regional Information Officer
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Tel: +662 288 2482

Krisdaporn Singhaseni.
Information Officer – ILO Bangkok
Tel: +66 (0) 2288 1664

Laetitia Dard
ILO Department of Communications - Geneva

Tel: +4122 799 8272 or +4178 685 0117.

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