News briefs
-
Call for a new global partnership to strengthen safety and health in the workplace, and to reinforce efforts to reduce fatalities and illness -
Unprecedented Declaration on Safety and Health at Work adopted -
Microinsurance: ILO and Gates foundation join forces to develop range of insurance products in developing countries -
Global employment trends 2008: Global economic turbulence could generate 5 million more unemployed in 2008
Around the continents: review on ILO related activities
Planet Work
-
The globe goes green
While ILO Director-General Juan Somavia in his speech to the International Labour Conference in June called for sustainable development and green jobs, the outside world had a few news stories as well. Planet Work looks at some of climate change’s news, stories and events making headlines around the world today and also at how businesses are adapting to this issue.
The ILO photo library has a large collection of original slides and of black & white negatives from the year 1900 to date, covering themes linked to employment and conditions of work in the world.
Articles
Cover story
-
Microinsurance and OSH: helping to cope with workplace risks, Work-related accidents and diseases take a grim toll every year.
Work-related accidents and diseases take a grim toll every year. Although prevention can help improve occupational safety and health (OSH), microinsurance can also play a complementary role in coping with workplace risks and provide direct benefits to employers and workers.
-
Promoting safe and healthy jobs: The ILO Global Programme on Safety, Health and the Environment (Safework) -
Shining a light of hope: Occupational safety and health in the informal economy. Hundreds of millions of workers worldwide suffer from work-related diseases and accidents. -
We’re in business! From Better Factories to Better Work. World of Work looks at a country project that grew into a major global programme.
ILO in history
-
The Multinational Enterprises Declaration
The story of the ILO’s Multinational Enterprises Declaration goes back more than three decades from before 1977, when it was formally adopted, to the end of the 1960s when the activities of multinationals were first beginning to attract serious attention – and, from some quarters, serious criticism.
Featured book
-
Trade union responses to globalization
Significant developments are taking place as unions search for new ways of operating in a globalized world. Andrew Bibby reports on a new study.
