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Meet the Specialists: Magnus Berge, Workers organizations

14 June 2021

Magnus Berge, Senior Specialist for Workers' Organizations explains how he supports ILO work with Trade Unions in Central and Eastern Europe. He promotes Trade Unions so that they can work more effectively to improve working conditions of workers and to protect workers' rights across the region. He advises Trade Unions when their rights are violated. ILO work with Workers organizations focuses on four areas: 1) helping Trade Unions modernize their operations and structures, 2) improve their service delivery to members, 3) helping them to communicate better about laws, workers' rights and services available for them, and 4) helping to draft good policy proposals on labour laws based on International Labour Standards.

Amicable settlement of labor disputes finally works

25 October 2016

The new mechanism for amicable settlement of labor disputes recently established in The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia provides faster, more efficient and free of charge extrajudicial resolution of collective and individual labor disputes. It is good not only for workers and employers, but also for the country as a whole through favoring social peace in the workplace and thus economic growth.

Promoting more and better jobs for inclusive growth

02 April 2015

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will work together to promote job-rich inclusive growth, sustainable enterprises, more effective social dialogue and formalization of the informal economy under a new cooperation agreement signed on 26 March 2015 in Skopje.

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