Welcome to the ILO Country Office for Pacific Island Countries. The Office is located in Suva, Fiji and is responsible for ILO relations and activities in Pacific Island Countries, including nine member States. More>
Welcome to the ILO Country Office for Pacific Island Countries. The Office is located in Suva, Fiji and is responsible for ILO relations and activities in Pacific Island Countries, including nine member States. More>
This "Newsletter" is for ILO constituents in the Pacific to keep them updated on ILO issues and activities related to Decent Work Country Programmes in their respective countries.
The ILO calls for job creation and social protection to be included in the list of Development Goals which will be drawn up by the United Nations after the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals passes in 2015.
►Consult the e-discussions on growth and employment and the post-2015 development agenda
►Join the global survey on the world you want!
The ILO Youth Employment Programme is organizing a photo contest to shed light on youth employment issues, the challenges young people face in the workplace as well as their power to overcome them. Zoom in for the top prize!
The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour and the Apprenticeship Council of Samoa have been running a trade testing scheme, offering workers who achieved their present status in their job by experience only, a platform to obtain formal recognition of their skills.
The Pacific Growth and Employment Project (PGEP) one of the programmes of the Decent Work Agenda, Australia – ILO Partnership Agreement is now underway.
This publication aims to highlight some of the challenges faced by persons with disability in accessing decent jobs and to identify relevant labour standards and other policy interventions that could advance disability in the workplace and assist Pacific Island countries address these challenges.
The ILO has received the 30th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), fulfilling the final condition for the first global standard spanning continents and oceans, to go into effect in a year’s time.
GENEVA (ILO News) – The Republic of Palau, a Pacific island nation, became the 185th member of the International Labour Organization (ILO) following receipt in Geneva of a letter dated 2 May, stating, on behalf of the Government, that the Republic of Palau formally accepts the obligations of the Constitution of the ILO.