Senior expert, Labour Market Policies and Vulnerable Groups
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Franz Gundacker is seconded to ILO SRO-Budapest by the Austrian Government and joined ILO in January 2004. He covers a broad area of labour market issues with particular reference to vocational education, training and retraining, employment services, active labour market policies and the needs of vulnerable groups.
After graduating from Innsbruck and Glasgow Universities, Franz Gundacker gained a broad employment and labour market policy experience in Austria at several senior levels (Deputy Director of the Arbeitsmarktverwaltung Niederösterreich from 1987-1992, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich from 1994-1997).
He also worked as a consultant with the OECD from 1992-1994 on labour market policies in Central and Eatsern Europe. From 1997-1999 (inluding the first Austrian chairmanship in the Council) he headed the Labour Market, Health and Social Policy Division at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels.
From 1999 until end of 2003 he served as Deputy Director of EU and International Affairs at the Austrian Federal Ministry (now) of Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection issues. In this capacity he also acted as Head of Protocol. Under his supervision, the Ministry organised numerous training seminars for civil servants coming from new EU member states and beyond.
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Film about the advantages of employing persons with disabilities. As this ILO film (Fully Fit at Work) shows, not only may people with disabilities be more productive, they may actually be more skilled in some jobs than non-disabled people. Produced for the ILO by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
Watch the film online in Polish with English subtitles. Duration: 21 min 11 sec
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World Day Against Child Labour
12 June 2008
Education: The right response to child labour
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A package for social and economic progress
The Albanian pilot of the One UN Programme will make use of the experiences of the International Labour Organization (ILO) gained in the field. As the only tripartite organisation within the United Nations system, the ILO plays a key role in involving social partners in the recently launched UN reform process.
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