September 2011

• ILO Director-General announces early departure
  30 September 2011. The Director-General of the ILO, Juan Somavía, announced that he will bring forward the date of his departure from his post to the second half of 2012 due to strong personal reasons that require him to be closer to his family.
• ILO warns of major G20 labour market decline in 2012 and serious jobs shortfall by 2015
  26 September 2011. The slow-down in the global economy could result in a massive jobs shortfall among G20 members by next year, warns the International Labour Organization, in a joint study prepared with the OECD at the request of the G20 for its labour ministerial meeting in Paris on 26-27 September.
• Unemployment in Russia down to 6.1% over August
  22 September 2011. Unemployment in Russia fell to 6.1% over August, according to the federal statistics service.
• Innovation economy and labour market: conference in Moscow
  15 September 2011. “The Russian Federation got out of the crisis and we expect the economic growth rates next year to be no lower than those this year,” Russian Deputy Health and Social Development Minister Maxim Topilin said in his opening remarks to the conference on Employment and Labour Market Strategies in Russia in the Context of Innovation Economy. The conference took place in Moscow on September 15 and was organized by the Russian Health and Social Development Ministry and the International Labour Organization.
• Russian migration service chief calls for more qualified migrants
  13 September 2011. The forecast, according to which the able-bodied population could fall by 10m people in Russia by 2025, is being taken into account when developing a concept of state migration policy, the director of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation [FMS], Konstantin Romodanovskiy, told Interfax on Tuesday [13 September].
• XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work to focus on building healthier and safer workplaces
  12 September 2011. The XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work – the world’s largest gathering of health and safety experts – opens here today with the aim of strengthening global commitment to a culture of safety and health at work amid the ongoing challenges of global economic uncertainty.
• Bashkortostan to develop Decent Work Programme
  12 September 2011. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan hosted a meeting of the working group to discuss a draft document for launching the Decent Work Programme in Bashkortostan for 2012-2015.