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Global Wage Report 2012-13

01 November 2012

"The Global Wage Report comes at a most opportune moment. The wave of unrest that swept through industrialized countries and gained its climax in the Arab Spring countries was rooted in declining wages and increased inequality. Wage policies aiming to stimulate growth and increase productivity are beneficial..."

Maternity Protection Resource Package. From Aspiration to Reality for All

13 March 2012

The Maternity Protection Resource Package provides inspiration and tools to help organizations and individuals everywhere to strengthen and extend maternity protection to all women in all types of economic activity. The Package can be used as a reference for self-learning, training, policy advice, research and action by governments, trade unions, employers' organizations, ILO and UN officials, NGOs, researchers and practitioners. Numerous examples of actions in improving maternity protection at work around the world are highlighted throughout the Package, for guidance and inspiration. The message of the Package is that maternity protection at work for all is both possible and desirable, as it contributes to equitable economic growth, social cohesion and Decent Work for all women and men.

Convention 189 & Recommendation 201 at a glance

15 December 2011

This brochure presents the provisions of the Domestic Workers Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201. These new standards, adopted in June 2011, are a strong recognition of the economic and social value of domestic work and a call for action to address the existing exclusions of domestic workers from labour and social protection. Given that most domestic workers are women, the new standards are an important step to advance gender equality in the world of work and ensure women’s equal rights and protection under the law.

Migrants in an irregular situation employed in domestic work: Fundamental rights challenges for the European Union and its Member States.

05 July 2011

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presented its report ‘Migrants in an irregular situation employed in domestic work: Fundamental rights challenges for the European Union and its Member States’ on 5 July 2011. The report by the EU Agency calls for the introduction of clear standards for all domestic workers, and supports the ILO Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers, and its accompanying Recommendation, which were adopted on 16 June 2011.
Questions and answers on labour regulation, Decent Work and the economic and jobs crisis

04 July 2011

How can labour regulation benefit the economic and labour markets? What is the role of regulation in terms of the challenges and opportunities it affords? How has the recent economic crisis affected regulation of labour markets, and can regulation contribute to economic recovery? These and other questions were on the agenda of the second Conference on the wider meaning of the often misunderstood concept of labour regulation.

100th ILO annual Conference decides to bring an estimated 53 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide under the realm of labour standards

16 June 2011

The government, worker and employer delegates at the 100th annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Thursday, 16 June adopted a historic set of international standards aimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.
Regulating for Decent Work. New directions in labour market regulation

13 June 2011

This book, the first in the new series Advances in Labour Studies, is an international and interdisciplinary response to the neoliberal ideologies that have shaped labour market regulation in recent decades. It draws on contributions by leading experts across a range of disciplines, including economics, law, political science and industrial relations. International in scope, it includes chapters on both advanced economies (Canada, Europe, United States) and the developing world (Brazil, China, Indonesia, Tanzania). The volume advances the academic and policy debates on post-crisis labour regulation by identifying new challenges, subjects and theoretical perspectives. In contrast to the dominant deregulatory approaches, it calls for labour market regulation to be reinvigorated.

Recognition for India’s invisible workers

30 May 2011

Domestic workers play an important role in the economy and they allow others to go out and earn money. Yet they remain invisible, unprotected and their contribution is often not recognized. At the forthcoming International Labour Conference (in Geneva, 1-17 June) the ILO and its members will debate drafts that could lead to the first international instruments specifically designed to protect domestic workers. By Neelam Agnihotri, Communication & Information Officer, ILO Country Office for India
European Parliament adopts a resolution on the proposed ILO Convention and Recommendation on domestic workers

11 May 2011

The European Parliament held a discussion on domestic work on 11 May 2011 and adopted a resolution on the Proposed ILO Convention and Recommendation on domestic workers on 12 May 2011. The text of the resolution is available at the European Parliament’s website.

Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage policies in times of crisis

15 December 2010

The second in a series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews the global and regional wage trends during the years of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

Questions and answers about maternity at work

23 June 2010

Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation, in 1919, when the first International Labour Conference adopted the first Maternity Protection Convention No. 3. A new publication on the state of maternity protection in the world has just been released by the ILO. Interview with Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, about achievements made and persisting challenges for maternity protection, including the impact of the current economic and employment crises.

Decent Work for domestic workers: a long way to go.

17 June 2009

The ILO and other women’s advocacy groups consider domestic work to be among the most precarious of occupations. The present economic downturn and jobs crisis sweeping the world is likely to aggravate those vulnerabilities depicted in a report to the 2009 International Labour Conference taking stock of gender equality in the world of work. ILO press officer Allan Dow reports from Bangkok.