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 Subregional High Level Conference on the Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis: Wage Fixing and Policy Responses
5- 6 November 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The objective of the high level meeting is to improve the capacity of workers’ and employers’ organisations and governments on wages in light of the current crisis and to make the link between expertise and policy decisions on wages. The conference will assess the different wage-fixing mechanisms and their respective functions and effects in economic and social terms and also the impact of the crisis both on the level of wages and minimum wages and on the wage-fixing mechanisms themselves.
Seventy participants are invited including wage experts and senior policy makers of the social partners and the Ministries of Labour of five countries in the western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) as well as Kosovo (UNMIK) . Furthermore, independent wage experts will also participate from four new EU member states, namely Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovak Republic to bring in a comparative perspective and lessons learnt for the Balkan countries.
The basis of the discussion will be a synthesis report on policy responses to wages in the subregion while recognized wage experts will present the impact of the crisis on wages in their countries including policy responses to the crisis.
The general real wage decline in the Western Balkans may seriously reduce consumption and accelerate economic slowdown
Wage institutions and policy suffer a number of structural weaknesses
SARAJEVO (ILO NEWS) - Real wages slowed significantly in several countries of the Western Balkans in 2008 and real and nominal wages are expected to decline further in 2009, as a consequence of the wage cuts introduced recently. The drop in real and nominal wages may accelerate the reduction in consumption thereby slowing further the economic recovery of these countries – says the new ILO paper prepared for the subregional high-level conference on ‘The Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis: Wage Fixing and Policy Responses’ taking place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5-6 November 2009. Tripartite delegations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo (within the meaning of UN Security Council Resolution 1244), Montenegro and Serbia will attend the conference.
Press release in pdf in English,
Albanian,
in the language of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Macedonian
and in Serbian
 Workshop on Labour Inspection and Undeclared Work
Budapest, 29-30 October 2009
The workshop aims at fostering the exchange of best practices, views and experience of European labour inspectors regarding their involvement in the identification and prevention of undeclared work. The purpose of the meeting is to develop guidelines for national labour inspection policies on undeclared work.
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ILO, Bosnia and Herzegovina to promote Decent Work
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and Bosnia and Herzegovina will work together to address labour market challenges, with the aim of creating more and better jobs, under a partnership agreement signed on 14 October 2009 in Budapest, Hungary.
High-level representatives of the ILO and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the second Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) for Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 2008 – 2010 period. The programme of cooperation, which promotes decent work as a national priority, was signed by the Minister of Civil Affairs, Sredoje Novic, and the Director of the ILO Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe, Mark Levin. » more |
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THANK YOU NORWAY
(Information received from Ljupco Kocovski ILO/CIS partner center coordinator)
The final conference of the “Implementation and enforcement of EU occupational safety and health standards in the garment industry” project was held on 21 October 2009 in Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to review the activities of the project financed by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The workers of the textile factories involved in the project painted a flag with their hands to express their gratitude to the Norwegian people for helping them to improve their work conditions.
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 EU-ILO project trains Ukrainian trade unions on gender mainstreaming in collective bargaining and job evaluation techniques
The EU-ILO ‘Gender Equality in the World of Work’ Project started a series of “training of trainers” seminars on gender mainstreaming in collective bargaining and job evaluation techniques for workers’ representatives in Lyutizh, Ukraine on 5 October 2009.
The training workshops “Negotiating Better Working and Living Conditions: Gender Mainstreaming in Collective Bargaining” (5-7 October, 2009) and “From Prohibition of Discrimination to Promoting Equality: Pay Equity” (7-9 October, 2009) aimed to train trainers among trade union leaders and activists to undertake gender sensitive training within trade union structures as well as to address gender equality through collective bargaining agreements. » more
Two trainings were held for Montenegrin occupational safety, health and labour inspectors as well as social partners in Podgorica, Montenegro. The first seminar from 22 to 26 September 2009 aimed at strengthening the capacity of the participants on labour relations legislation since recently a number of new laws were adopted. The second seminar from 28 September to 2 October 2009 aimed at strengthening the capacity of the inspectors and social partners on the implementation and development of risk assessment acts in enterprises.
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Employment Policy Review: Bosnia and Herzegovina
by Gianni Rosas, Valli Corbanese, Niall O'Higgins
ILO and Council of Europe, 2007-2008
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Survey on HIV/AIDS among people involved in labour relations in the Republic of Moldova
ILO, Chisinau, 2009
Available in pdf in English and
Romanian
This report presents the results of the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Survey on HIV/AIDS among employees in the Republic of Moldova initiated by International Labour Organization (ILO) and Ministry of Economy and Trade during June – September 2008. The survey was developed and conducted by a national consultant and a research agency. The research covered 1217 people older than 17 years
working in Moldovan enterprises with more than 300 employees from different economic sectors of Moldova.
The survey highlighted a high level of stigma towards people living with HIV; an inadequate level of knowledge about HIV and how to prevent transmission; and low commitment of private sector representatives to address HIV/AIDS issues at the workplace. The findings shall serve as background for further advocacy and mobilization of world of work actors on HIV prevention with focus on rural population.
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Guidelines on Socially-Sensitive Labour Force Restructuring in South Eastern Europe
by Andrea Broughton
ILO, Budapest, 2009
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Final evaluation report: project skills development and youth employment in Kosovo: (phases I and II)
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On the occasion of the 8th European Regional Meeting, the ILO is launching the Albanian, Romanian, Serbian and Ukrainian versions of the Decent Work Flash
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