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• June 2013

  • Marina Larionova: The G20 should not make decisions without weighing their social impact
    28 June 2013. Two important reports have been presented during the Russian G20 Presidency, namely, on how the G20 is performing in meeting its commitments, and on the Civil 20 recommendations for strong, sustainable and balanced growth.
  • Tamara Duisenova appointed Kazakh Minister of Labor and Social Protection
    27 June 2013. Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, has appointed T. Duisenova to a post of Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Akorda press service informs.
  • FAO and ILO urge countries to better protect children working in fisheries and aquaculture
    27 June 2013. Governments need to take measures to protect children from harmful work in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture, say the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Labour Organization.
  • Nazarbayev approved law on pension provision in Kazahstan
    21 June 2013. President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed the Law "On pension provision in the Republic of Kazakhstan" and "On amendments to some legislative acts on pension provision issues."
  • Action needed to provide jobs and social protection for growing and ageing populations (PDF, 23 Kb)
    19 June 2013. Governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations must take action to ensure decent job opportunities and social protection for growing and ageing populations, concludes the International Labour Conference Committee on Employment and Social Protection in the New Demographic Context.
  • ILO approves new framework of action on social dialogue (PDF, 69 Kb)
    19 June 2013. The conclusions of the ILC Committee for the Recurrent Discussion on Social Dialogue stress that social dialogue is at the heart of democracy - and is essential for social and economic development.
  • Restoring Confidence: Jobs, Growth and Social Progress
    17 June 2013. A high-level panel at the International Labour Conference analyzed some of the key issues affecting the global economy and the role that the world of work can play in helping to achieve a sustainable recovery.
  • National action plan to eliminate the worst forms of child labour presented in Tajikistan
    12 June 2013. Tajikistan’s authorities should amend the legislation to create favourable conditions for prevention and elimination of the worst forms of child labour in the country, ILO-IPEC National Consultant Dzhamshed Kuddusov said on June 12 at the presentation of the national action plan on elimination of the worst forms of child labour in Tajikistan for 2012-2020.
  • Statement by Guy Ryder Director-General International Labour Organization on the occasion of the World Day against Child Labour
    12 June 2013. Child labour is a fundamental abuse of human rights. It denies girls and boys the right to be a child, to access quality education, and to hope for the future.
  • Ten million child labourers in domestic work (PDF, 83 Kb)
    11 June 2013. To mark World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO publishes a report outlining the abuses suffered by millions of children working in family homes.
  • Tripartite partners in Kazakhstan sign memorandum of understanding on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work
    10 June 2013. In May tripartite partners in Kazakhstan – representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, the Ministry of Health, the Federation of Trade Unions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan Atameken Union, the Confederation of Employers and the Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises - signed a memorandum of understanding on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work.
  • Abdenov relieved of duties as Kazakh Minister of Labor and Social Protection
    10 June 2013. In accordance with the Nursultan Nazarbayev’s decree Serik Abdenov has been released from the office of the Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Kazakhstan, Akorda reports.
  • 12 days against exploitation of child labour campaign ends in North Kazakhstan region
    9 June 2013. The annual national information campaign “12 days against exploitation of child labour” aimed at raising public awareness about the problem of child labour ended in Petropavlovsk. By tradition one of the main organizers of the campaign in the North Kazakhstan region was the regional department for child labour protection.
  • Kazakh leader sends back new pension bill to parliament for revision
    8 June 2013. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said the government has failed to explain the essence of the new pension bill to the public.
  • Caught at sea: fighting forced labour in the fishing industry - article by Beate Andrees, head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (PDF, 31 Kb)
    7 June 2013. The fishing sector is an important source of employment, income and food production for many countries. But there are serious incidents of abuse in some fisheries and fishing vessels. By Beate Andrees, head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour.
  • Why jobs and livelihoods matter - article by Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist (PDF, 23 Kb)
    7 June 2013. With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaching, Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist, explains why jobs and livelihoods should be at the centre of a post-2015 development agenda.
  • ILO Director-General and UNAIDS Executive Director launch new programme on voluntary and confidential HIV counselling and testing - listen to radio report (in Russian)
  • ILO launches new initiative to reach 5 million workers with voluntary HIV testing by 2015
    6 June 2013. The International Labour Organization, supported by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, has launched an initiative to reach 5 million workers with Voluntary and confidential HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT@WORK) by 2015.
  • More than 70 children in Bishkek and Osh will be enrolled to evening classes
    6 June 2013. Evening classes will be opened on the basis of secondary schools in Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek and Osh, where more than 70 working children will be able to get education.
  • Statement by ILO Director-General on the occasion of World Environment Day 2013
    5 June 2013. On this year’s World Environment Day with its focus on food waste and food loss we are confronted with a tragic paradox. Globally over 870 million people are undernourished while 1.3 billion tons of food - fully one third of all food produced – are lost or go to waste.
  • Ryder: We need to get a grip on the rapid changes affecting the world of work
    5 June 2013. The world of work is being transformed more quickly and more deeply than ever before by rapid changes in demography and technology, growing inequality, poverty and the slow economic recovery, said Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization.
  • Transition to green economy to create 500 000 jobs in Kazakhstan
    5 June 2013. Development of a green economy in Kazakhstan will create more than 500 thousand jobs.
  • Launch of a landmark global initiative on HIV in the world of work
    4 June 2013. On 6 June 2013, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, and UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, will launch the ILO’s VCT@WORK initiative to provide voluntary and confidential HIV counselling and testing for 5 million working women and men by 2015.
  • European Union supports the agenda of Russia's G20 Presidency
    4 June 2013. The 31st Russia-EU Summit took place on June 4 in Yekaterinburg. During the summit, Vladimir Putin and EU leaders discussed current issues related to their cooperation, including as part of their preparations for the G20 Summit.
  • World of Work report 2013: Uneven job recovery poses challenges to most countries (PDF, 74 Kb)
    3 June 2013. The latest edition of the ILO’s World of Work report shows encouraging, but still-fragile signs of improvement in emerging and developing economies, while many advanced economies continue to face high or even rising unemployment and increasing inequalities.

• May 2013

  • ILO steps up cooperation in youth employment with Azerbaijan
    30 May 2013. On May 30 Azerbaijan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alekperov met with ILO Moscow Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva to discuss the implementation of ILO’s new project Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
  • Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sharing knowledge in combating child labour
    28 May 2013. Within the framework of activities carried out by the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) in Central Asia two study tours were organized for tripartite partners in the region to learn experience of combating child labour in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
  • Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Georgia
    28 May 2013. It coincided with the first day of the work of the ILO/PERC/ITUC Sub- regional Network Meeting on “Promotion of Social protections ILO conventions of the women networks in member organizations of the ITUC/PERC and collective bargaining.
  • Global unemployment and integrated solutions: panel session at the VI Astana Economic Forum
    22-24 May 2013. Global unemployment and integrated solutions were in the focus of a panel session that took place in the framework of the VI Astana Economic Forum in Kazakhstan’s capital on May 22-24.
  • At any crisis action is better than no action, President of Kazakhstan
    23 May 2013. The global recession lead, incredible as it may seem, to the anti-crisis measures taken at national levels.
  • UN Secretary-General visits Russia
    21 May 2013. On May 16-19 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Russia. Soon after his arrival in Moscow he left for the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where on the next day he held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
  • Putin cancels joining Open Government this year – Peskov
    20 May 2013. President Vladimir Putin has cancelled Russia’s joining the Open Government Partnership this year, the Russian leader’ press secretary Dmitry Peskov said in a statement.
  • Y20 Russia Summit Agenda announced
    18 May 2013. The Russian delegation at the Y20 Russia 2013 Summit, to be held from 18-21 June 2013 as part of the St.Petersburg Economic Forum, gave a news conference in Moscow.
  • ILO Director-General's statement on International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia
    17 May 2013. On International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, says the ILO is stepping up efforts to eradicate workplace discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • The impact of agricultural trade on labour markets
    14 May 2013. A new book edited by UNCTAD and the International Labour Organization stresses that agricultural trade can be an opportunity for creating jobs and alleviating poverty around the world.
  • Ksenia Yudaeva: Russia has chosen the right priorities for its G20 Presidency
    13 May 2013. Ksenia Yudaeva, Chief of the Presidential Experts Directorate and the Russian G20 Sherpa, talks to journalists on the third Sherpas' Meeting held in St.Petersburg on May 11-12.
  • Kazakhstan’s labour minister explains pension system modernization process
    8 May 2013. At the meeting with workers of Ust-Kamenogorsk’s poultry farm and public at large Kazakhstan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Serik Abdenov told about the republic’s comprehensive plan of employment support for people over 50 years of age or the so-called Initiative 50+.
  • Putin signs into law creation of work concils
    8 May 2013. On May 8 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law amendments to Article 22 of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation.
  • Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 (PDF, 55 Kb)
    8 May 2013. Youth jobs’ gains wiped out by slow recovery.
  • Methodology for assessing decent work to help improve working conditions in Armenia
    7 May 2013. The Decent Work Country Profile presented in Yerevan on May 7 will help improve working conditions in Armenia, said Tadevos Avetisian, the head of the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry’s labour and employment department.
  • Georgia’s parliament adopts in first reading amendments to Labour Code
    7 May 2013. On May 7 the Georgian parliament adopted in the first reading amendments to the Labour Code. They will protect workers from groundless layoffs and will help reduce the number of jobless in the country.
  • The true potential of the social and solidarity economy
    6 May 2013. ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, has called for a better understanding of how the social and solidarity economy (SSE) – which includes cooperatives, social enterprises and mutual benefit organizations – can have a positive impact on the economy.
  • Five Russian citizens awarded the title Hero of Labour
    1 May 2013. Vladimir Putin awarded Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation medals and title certificates to five Russian citizens for their outstanding achievements in state and public work and their big contribution to Russia’s socioeconomic development, including in production, transport, construction, science, culture, education, and healthcare.

• April 2013

  • ILO calls for urgent global action to fight occupational diseases (PDF, 74 Kb)
    28 April 2013. According to a new ILO report, prevention is key to tackling the growing number of work-related diseases, which claim an estimated 2 million lives per year.
  • Our goal is to ensure safe labour
    25-26 April 2013. On April 25-26 Astana hosted the third Kazakhstan International Occupational Safety and Health Conference and Exhibition KIOSH-2013.
  • Crisis shockwaves reverberate in European public sector (PDF, 36 Kb)
    24 April 2013. The public sector in many European countries has been hit hard by the economic crisis, leading to big cuts in spending, jobs and wages. ILO Senior Economist, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, analyses the impact on the public sector, of policy responses to the crisis.
  • Kazakhstan to join OIC labor ministers at Baku conference
    22 April 2013. Kazakhstan is to participate in the 2nd Conference of Labor Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation member countries in Baku on 24 April.
  • Child labour tops agenda of Kyrgyz parliamentary committee’s session
    16 April 2013. Following the education forum held in December 2012 with some parliamentarians participating, the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Kyrgyzstan in close cooperation with the the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) mainstreamed child labour concerns into the agenda of the regular meeting of the parliament’s Committee on Education, Culture, Science, Information and Religious Policy held on April 16.
  • Confederation of Labour of Russia developing migration strategy
    16 April 2013. On April 16 Moscow hosted a conference on management, representation and protection of labour migrants’ rights and trade unions’ experience and prospects. It was organized by the Centre for Social and Labour Rights, the Confederation of Labour of Russia and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF).
  • Confidence can be restored in Europe, ILO says
    11 April 2013. In a move to restore confidence in jobs and growth in the region, the 9th European Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization adopted the Oslo Declaration.
  • Jobs for youth: what works
    10 April 2013. “Young people have borne the brunt of the crisis and there is a real risk of a lost generation,” said one of the European labour ministers taking part in a discussion about youth unemployment during the ILO's 9th European Regional Meeting in Oslo. The sentiment was echoed by all his colleagues.
  • ILO Director-General urges closer cooperation between IMF, EC and ILO
    9 April 2013. Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, called for closer cooperation between the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and the ILO, recognizing their “different policy goals, since they are all legitimate.”
  • Crisis puts European Social Model to serious test
    8 April 2013. The 9th European Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) opened here today with an urgent call for effective employment and social policies that can achieve growth and competitiveness with good jobs.
  • Ten million more unemployed in Europe than in 2008
    8 April 2013. There are over 10 million more jobless people in Europe now than at the start of the crisis, according to a snapshot of the European labour market released by the International Labour Organization.
  • One labour market, one labour law?
    By Miguel Ángel Malo, senior economist at the ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies
    5 April 2013. There are many occupations that can be found both in the public and private sectors. It’s the case of nurses, doctors and teachers, for example.
  • Half of Russia’s employable population employed in shadow economic sector - minister
    3 April 2013. Half of Russia’s employable population are engaged in the shadow sector of the economy, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said on Wednesday.
  • 9th ILO European Regional Meeting: Agenda and accreditation information
    2 April 2013. The International Labour Organization will hold its 9th European Regional Meeting (ERM) focused on “Jobs, growth and social justice” in Oslo on 8-11 April.
  • Nearly 300 thousand women in Kazakhstan unemployed
    2 April 2013. Currently, 286 thousand women in Kazakhstan are unemployed, Minister of Labor and Social Protection Serik Abdenov told journalists on Tuesday.

• March 2013

  • ILO and Russian oil giant LUKOIL in talks to promote youth employment
    28 March 2013. ILO Director-General Guy Ryder met with Mr. Vagit Alekperov, President of Russian oil company LUKOIL on 28 March 2013, to discuss ways of enhancing cooperation under the partnership agreement that was signed by the ILO and LUKOIL in December 2012, at a joint Russian Federation and ILO International High-Level Conference on Decent Work.
  • Safety briefing of marine cadets: HIV/AIDS education
    28 March 2013. In March 2013 Evgueni Khizhnyak, Chief techincal labour inspector, Seafarers' Union of Russia conducted safety briefing for the cadets of the navigational and marine engineer department of the Saint-Petersburg Marine Technical College prior to their first internship on tanker of the "Sovkomflot-Varandei" Company.
  • Rescue operation in Kuzbass mine underway
    27 March 2013. The search and rescue operation is conducted in the Osinnikovskaya emergency mine in the Kemerovo Region, the fate of the four miners remains unknown, the press service of the regional department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry (EMERCOM) told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
  • The Business 20 employment task force meets in Geneva
    26 March 2013. The Business 20 Task Force on Job Creation, Employment and Investments in Human Capital meeting was convened in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 26, to discuss the task force's recommendations for the G20 Leaders.
  • The Civil 20 will present in Moscow its recommendations on labour and employment
    19 March 2013. On March 21, 2013 the Public Chamber will host a round table discussion of the Civil 20 recommendations for the G20 on labour and employment.
  • Engaging youth is vital for the G20
    15 March 2013. Ksenia Yudaeva, Chief of the Presidential Experts Directorate and the Russian G20 Sherpa, noted that the key focus of Russia's Presidency of the G20 was cooperation with various social groups, in particular with Youth 20, Business 20, Civil 20 and Labour 20.
  • Tajik agency logs 500 missing migrant workers
    14 March 2013. Over 500 migrant workers from Tajikistan's northern region of Sughd have officially been announced missing as at today.
  • Kazakh Deputy PM: Retirement age for women to be increased gradually
    12 March 2013. "It is planned to increase the retirement age for women in Kazakhstan gradually from 2014," Deputy Prime Minister Kairat Kelimbetov announced during the presentation of the draft law "On pensions provision in the Republic of Kazakhstan" in the new edition of the Majilis of the Parliament.
  • Deputy Labour and Social Protection Minister Alexei Vovchenko held talks with ILO Deputy-Director General Sandra Polaski
    6 March 2013. On March 6 Russian Deputy Labour and Social Protection Minister Alexei Vovchenko held talks with ILO Deputy-Director General Sandra Polaski.
  • ILO Governing Body to discuss global crisis response
    5 March 2013. The Governing Body of the International Labour Organization starts on 6 March with the aim of discussing, among other issues, how employment and social policies can lead to a coordinated recovery from the global crisis.
  • G20 Sherpas' Meeting was held in Moscow
    4 March 2013. On March 3-4, 2013 the Second Sherpas' Meeting was held in Moscow within the framework of Russia's G20 Presidency. During the meeting Sherpas discussed the main outcomes of the first Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting, which had been held on February 15-16, 2013.
  • Tajikistan becomes 159th member of WTO
    2 March 2013. Tajikistan has become a full member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

• February 2013

  • France ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
    28 February 2013. On 28 February 2013, the Government of France deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006).
  • Development Working Group Meeting was held in Moscow
    27 February 2013. The first Development Working Group Meeting within Russia's Presidency was held on February 26-27, 2013 in Moscow (Russia). The representatives of the G20 Ministries and Official Development Assistance Agencies, as well as experts from the international organizations attended the meeting.
  • New Labor, Migration and Youth Minister of Kyrgyzstan appointed
    27 February 2013. Aliyasbek Alymkulov was appointed the acting Labor, Migration and Youth Minister of Kyrgyzstan, official website of the Kyrgyz government reported.
  • Kazakh government approves blueprint for youth policy till 2020
    26 February 2013. The Kazakh government approved a blueprint for state youth policy till 2020 at a meeting today.
  • Rosstat: January unemployment equals 6%
    25 February 2013. The unemployment rate in Russia equaled 6% in January (excluding seasonality), while employment (the ratio between the employed and the total number of economically active population) equaled 64.2%, the Federal Statistics Service reported, tallying results of sampling surveys of the public about employment problems.
  • ILO publishes the annual report on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations 2013
    25 February 2013. International labour standards are universal instruments adopted by the international community and reflecting common values and principles on work-related issues.
  • Russian expert: G20 should listen to the anti-crisis initiatives of the President of Kazakhstan
    25 February 2013. Members of "Big Twenty" should listen to the anti-crisis initiatives of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
  • Russia's Putin invites Kazakh leader to attend G20 summit
    24 February 2013. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has received a personal invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to participate in a G20 summit, the Kazakh president's central communications service has said.
  • A strategic alliance for youth employment
    22 February 2013. During a meeting of ILO development partners in Geneva on 22 February 2013, the ILO presented a portfolio of proposed technical cooperation projects to build support and partnerships to tackle the youth employment crisis.
  • Russia has introduced a number of initiatives to the G20 employment agenda
    22 February 2013. On February 21-22, 2013 the first Task Force on Employment Meeting was held in Moscow within the framework of Russia's G20 Presidency.
  • The Task Force on Employment Meeting opened in Moscow
    21 February 2013. The Russian G20 Sherpa and Chief of the Presidential Experts' Directorate Ksenia Yudaeva in her welcoming remarks emphasized that employment is one of the key topics among the Russian Presidency's priorities and that many G20 Leaders pay special attention to this issue.
  • Ksenia Yudaeva: Creation of high-quality jobs is a common task for the G20 members
    21 February 2013. Welcoming the participants of the Task Force on Employment Meeting, Ksenia Yudaeva, Chief of the Presidential Experts' Directorate and the Russian G20 Sherpa, reassured that the issue of employment is a crucial one for Russia's G20 presidency.
  • Russia Invites G20 Leaders to St. Petersburg Summit
    20 February 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday issued an official invitation to the G20 heads of state and government to participate in the St. Petersburg Summit, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
  • Message by ILO Director-General on World Day for Social Justice
    20 February 2013. Global economic recovery hangs in the balance. Tipping that balance towards sustainable growth and development means tackling social injustice.
  • Workers strike in Kazakh west to demand pay rise, cut in foreign staff
    20 February 2013. Over 150 workers of the ship-building limited liability partnership Keppel Kazakhstan are striking in Aktau (administrative centre of Mangistau Region in western Kazakhstan) for a second day now.
  • The list of countries and international organizations invited to take part in the 2013 G20 summit has been announced
    20 February 2013. Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov announced today that Vladimir Putin signed invitations for heads of state and government of the Group of Twenty nations and the heads of a number of other countries and international organizations to take part in the G20 summit in St.Petersburg.
  • Putin Asked to Pardon Millions of Illegal Immigrants
    20 February 2013. The head of the Federation of Immigrants in Russia, Muhammad Amin Madzhumder, has requested that President Vladimir Putin grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants working in the country's shadow economy, Izvestia reported Wednesday.
  • Kyrgyzstan introduces pension payment cards
    19 February 2013. Social Fund of the Kyrgyz Republic continues changing the pension payment process from cash to bank cards payments. This was announced today by Sabira Abdyrakhmanova, Head of the Analysis and Pension Payment Reporting Department, at a press conference.
  • Kyrgyzstan to make first payments from funded component of pensions
    19 February 2013. The first payments from the funded component of pensions will be made in Kyrgyzstan, Rakhatbek Pirmatov, Head of the Agency on the State Pension Savings Fund said today at a press conference.
  • 64.5% of Armenian budget was formed by transfers from Russia in 2012
    19 February 2013. Armenians transferred $1.69 billion from foreign countries to Armenia in 2012, which means a transfer drop of $140.3 million (9.1%), compared with 2011, News.am reports.
  • EU to allocate €1.9 billion to Eastern Parnership's members
    19 February 2013. The European Union will allocate €1.9 billion to the members of the Eastern Parnership project, including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine.
  • Russian Deputy Labour Minister: for the first time the G20 program includes Joint Labour and Finance Ministers Meeting
    18 February 2013. On February 21-22, 2013 Moscow will host the first session of the G20 Task Force on Employment during Russia's G20 presidency. Representatives of the G20 task forces - Labour 20, Business 20, Civil 20, experts of the OECD, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank will also take part in discussing the issues of labor and employment.
  • Bodies of 17 miners lifted to surface at Vorkutinskaya mine
    17 February 2013. The bodies of seventeen miners who died in a methane blast at Vorkutinskaya mine early on Monday have been raised to the surface, Sergei Moiseyev, the mine's chief engineer, told an emergency meeting held by Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov.
  • G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting was held in Moscow
    16 February 2013. The first G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting within Russia's Presidency was held on February 15-16 in Moscow. Main events took place on the 16th of February.
  • Trade unions expand information space
    14-15 February 2013. On February 14-15 a subregional seminar on information campaigns for labour rights organized by the Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (PERC- ITUC) took place in the town of Moskovsky.
  • Jobs, social inclusion and growth should top EU agenda
    14 February 2013. ILO Director-General Guy Ryder discusses the priorities of the European Union in the context of his first official visit to Ireland, which holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU
  • International Financial Architecture Working Group Meeting took place in Moscow
    13 February 2013. The first IFA Working Group meeting within the Russia's Presidency in the G20 took place on 13 February 2013 in Moscow. The representatives of the G20 Finance Ministries and Central Banks and experts from international financial organizations (IMF, World Bank, OECD, BIS, G24 and others) attended the meeting.
  • Tashpolot Baltabayev: Only way to fight unemployment in Kyrgyzstan is export of human recourses
    11 February 2013. “The only way to fight unemployment in Kyrgyzstan is export of human resources to neighboring or far-abroad countries,” MP Tashpolot Baltabayev said today at panel on discussion of Employment Promotion Draft Law of Kyrgyzstan.
  • ILO: Tougher measures needed to curb forced labour
    8 February 2013.A new ILO report highlights the need for tougher measures to combat forced labour, which claims 21 million victims worldwide – men, women and children coerced into jobs they can’t leave, trapped in debt bondage, trafficked for sexual exploitation and even born into slavery.
  • Tajikistan, Russia ink new migration pact
    8 February 2013. Today a ceremony to sign an agreement between Tajikistan and Russia on the conditions of the presence of Tajik citizens in Russia was held in Moscow.
  • ILO Director-General discusses development agenda with UN Secretary-General
    7 February 2013. In his first official visit to the United Nations, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his senior staff to discuss the role of the Decent Work Agenda in the post-2015 development framework.
  • Sattar Mehbolliyev re-elected as chair of Azerbaijan Trade Union Confederation
    6 February 2013. On February 5 Sattar Mehbolliyev was re-elected as chair of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan at the confederation’s fourth congress.
  • Tajikistan's population reaches eight million - news agency
    6 February 2013. Tajikistan's population reached eight million, the privately-owned Tajik news agency Avesta reported on 6 February.
  • Young leaders from the G20 countries will take part in the Generation 2020 platform of the tenth annual Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum 14-16 February 2013
    4 February 2013. During the meeting, entitled "Open Future: How to Manage Development", young leaders will discuss preparations for the Y20 Russia 2013 summit and share the experience of their authorities' implementing the principles of openness and transparency.
  • Skills mismatches hurt job creation prospects
    4 February 2013. Several developed economies are seeing increasing numbers of job vacancies but their unemployment rates are not going down. In some cases, they are even rising.

• January 2013

  • Not all remittances sent by labour migrants to Tajikistan - minister
    31 January 2013. Not the entire amount of remittances are sent by labour migrants, the Tajik minister of economic development and trade, Sharif Rahimzoda, said at a news conference on 29 January.
  • Russia plans to ratify ILO Safety and Health in Mines Convention
    29 January 2013. On January 29 the Russian government’s law making activity commission supported a draft federal law on ratification of the ILO Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176) submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.
  • PM submits document on creation of work councils to Duma
    29 January 2013. On January 29 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted a bill on the creation of work councils in companies to the State Duma for consideration, the government’s press service said.
  • Ksenia Yudaeva: Now it is time for the G20 to pay attention to the initiatives aimed at improving the economies’ performance
    29 January 2013. Nowadays an outsider might have an impression that the G20 is losing relevance, while in 2008 after the most severe phase of the financial crisis it seemed to be at the heart of the global economy stabilization strategy.
  • Abelgazi Kussainov elected as new chair of the Federation of Trade Unions of Kazakhstan
    28 January 2013. On January 28 the Federation of Trade Unions of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a meeting of the General Council.
  • Over 800 oil workers reportedly go on strike in Kazakh west
    26 January 2013. Over 800 workers of the SiBu engineering drilling company in western Kazakhstan went on strike today. They are demanding a pay rise.
  • Republic of Bashkortostan signs Decent Work Programme
    25 January 2013. On January 25 the Republic of Bashkortostan signed the Decent Work Programme. Signatures under the document were put by the republic’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Rauf Nugumanov, chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Amirkhan Samirkhanov, and president of the republic’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Yuri Pustovgarov.
  • Children working at Apple's suppliers
    25 January 2013. Apple has discovered multiple cases of child labour in its supply chain, including one Chinese company that employed 74 children under the age of 16, in the latest controversy over the technology giant's manufacturing methods.
  • Jobs crisis is far from over, warns ILO chief
    25 January 2013. Stressing the urgent need to tackle the employment crisis, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, has warned that there can’t be any real growth without jobs.
  • All pension funds in Kazakhstan to merge: President
    23 January 2013. President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested creating a single pension fund at the Government's meeting on Wednesday.
  • Kazakhstan introduces dual education: PM
    23 January 2013. More than 100 colleges across Kazakhstan are to introduce a dual education system, Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov declared at the Government's meeting dedicated to results of the year 2012 and the implementation of the "Kazakhstan-2050" Strategy on Wednesday.
  • Italy ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
    22 January 2013. The Government of Italy deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). Italy is the 4th ILO member State and the first EU member State to ratify this instrument which seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.
  • Uncertainty lets global unemployment rise again
    22 January 2013. Global unemployment rose in 2012 after falling for two straight years and could further increase in 2013, the International Labour Organization has warned in a new report.
  • ILO Director-General's presentation of the Global Employment Trends 2013
    21 January 2013. Guy Ryder provided an overview of the scope of the Global Employment Trends 2013, followed by some of the key findings of the ILO report on trends and policies
  • Rise of middle-class jobs in the developing world could spur growth
    21 January 2013. 390 million additional “middle class” workers projected by 2017, but 1.5 billion workers remain either poor or near poor
  • Putin names economic results in 2012 "relatively satisfactory"
    16 January 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin named the economic results in 2012 as "relatively satisfactory". The Russian president has made a statement to this effect at a meeting devoted to economic issues at the Kremlin on Wednesday.
  • Kazakhstan raises social payment for disabled by 16 per cent
    16 January 2013. Government social payments for disability and survivors' benefits were increased in Kazakhstan starting from 1 January 2013.
  • Migration Service Chief Made a Cabinet Minister
    15 January 2013. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Tuesday making the head of the Federal Migration Service a federal minister, signaling that the service's powers will likely be expanded.
  • ILO Chief: Less austerity, more investment needed to tackle youth jobs crisis
    11 January 2013. International Labour Organization chief Guy Ryder has called for less austerity and more investments to promote a jobs recovery at a time when the youth employment crisis threatens to scar “the very fabric of our societies”
  • Finland ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
    10 January 2013. On 9 January 2013, the Government of Finland deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006).
  • Minister says 4,500 HIV-positives logged in Tajikistan
    10 January 2013. The number of HIV infected people in Tajikistan was 4,500 by the end of 2012, Health Minister Nusratullo Salimov told a news conference today.
  • More than 52 million domestic workers worldwide (PDF, 42 Kb)
    9 January 2013. Millions of domestic workers around the world remain excluded from protection enjoyed by other workers, says a new ILO report.
  • Tajik parliament's lower house ratifies agreement on WTO admission
    9 January 2013. The Assembly of Representatives (lower house of parliament) of Tajikistan during its regular session in Dushanbe today ratified the agreement on the admission of Tajikistan to the World Trade Organization [WTO].
  • Kazakhstan raises pensions by 9 per cent
    4 January 2013. Pensions in Kazakhstan increased by 9 per cent as of 1 January 2013. The official media today published the government's decree to this effect, which was signed by Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov on 25 December 2012.

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