Highlights

  1. Global Wage Report 2022-23

    The impact of COVID-19 and inflation on wages and purchasing power

    This ILO flagship report examines the evolution of real wages, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region.

  1. Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World

    Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World provides a comprehensive review of both main aspects of working time – working hours and working time arrangements (also called work schedules) – and their effects on workers' work-life balance.

  2. Report

    Working from home: from invisibility to decent work

    With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world’s workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades.

  3. Book

    Telework in the 21st Century: an evolutionary perspective

    A new conceptual framework explaining the evolution of telework over four decades.

  4. Report

    Non-standard employment around the world:
    Understanding challenges, shaping prospects

    Analysis of the incidence and trends of non standard forms of employment globally and exploration of the reasons behind this phenomenon, including changes in the world of work brought about by globalization and social change.

Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch (INWORK)

Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch (INWORK) provides technical assistance to ILO constituents and expands the knowledge base on Wages, Working Time, Working Conditions, Collective Bargaining and Labour Relations, Contractual arrangements and Labour Market Security. INWORK also plays a key role in conducting activities on the formalization of the informal economy and coordinates the ILO Strategy to Make Decent Work a Reality for Domestic Workers. The Branch covers the interplay among these key labour market institutions and their combined effect on worker protection, labour market performance and equality.

Areas of work

  1. Wages and income

  2. Collective bargaining and labour relations

  3. Working time and work organization

  4. Non-standard forms of employment

  5. Formalization of the informal economy

  6. Domestic workers

  7. Employment security

  8. Digital labour platforms

What's new

  1. Event

    Meeting of experts on wage policies, including living wages

  2. © J. Aliling / ILO 2023

    News

    ILO launches new strategy to achieve decent work for domestic workers

    15 June 2023

    With the global demand for domestic workers likely to grow, the International Labour Organization steps up action to ensure they have access to decent work.

  3. Global Wage Report Data

    Global Wage Report: Data

    12 June 2023

    This excel file provides data in two seperate sheets on the nominal monthly wages in local currency and the real wage-growth, 2006 to latest available.

  4. Short Report

    The road to decent work for domestic workers

    05 June 2023

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