All events: employment + employment policy + employment security + unemployment

Launch event

Guide to private employment agencies: An updated publication

ITC/ILO online course

Employment in ageing societies: Turning the challenge of ageing into societal opportunities

This course is designed to help participants interpret global ageing trends and develop the tools to respond strategically.

Regional tripartite forum

Impact of socio-economic developments on labour markets in Syria and neighbouring countries

Held under the patronage of the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour of Syria, the event has brought together ILO constituents – governments, employers and workers – from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.

ITC/ILO online course

Jobs measurement and employment impact assessment

This course aims to improve the design and implementation of policies for the creation of decent jobs by building the capacity of all relevant stakeholders to identify, measure and assess the effects on employment of economic, sectoral,...

ITC/ILO course

Skills Academy. Building tomorrow’s skills systems: Policy, Practice, and Partnerships in motion

This intensive two-week experience will explore ILO's new Strategy on Skills and Lifelong Learning for 2022-30, providing participants with ideas to shape effective policies and with best practices from all over the world.

Employment Seminar Series

Young and Unhappy in the World of Work: What Can We Do About It?

In this Employment Policy Department seminar, economist David Blanchflower shares his research findings on the global surge in youth unhappiness, with rising anxiety, loneliness, and disconnection—especially among young women.

Launch event

How impact assessments, diagnostics, and dialogue contribute to effective employment policies

Join ILO/EMPLOYMENT on 16 September 2025 for the launch of the Global Employment Policy Review, which focuses on the role of impact assessments, diagnostics, and social dialogue in addressing the question: “Do employment-responsive policies work?”

Latin America and the Caribbean

Launch of the publication Social Dialogue and Labour Relations 2025

The ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean invites you to the launch of its new report: Social Dialogue and Labour Relations 2025, a regional snapshot of the state of social dialogue and labour relations in Latin America and the...

Hosted by ILO, UNICEF and UN Women

Rewiring the future: How AI can empower girls and youth for the green transition in Asia-Pacific?

This webinar will explore how young people, especially girls and marginalized youth, are driving solutions to close the skills gap in the digital and green economy.

ITC/ILO course

Shaping and managing effective employment services

This course is aimed at public employment services (PES) managers to support their strategic thinking and ensure more effective and agile PES organizations in the context of socio-economic transformations.

ITC/ILO online course

Effective employment policies. From global frameworks to local action

The main objective of the course is to strengthen the capacities of policymakers, including social partners to design and implement comprehensive policy employment frameworks.

Sectoral meeting

Meeting of experts to adopt policy guidelines for the promotion of decent work in recycling

ITC/ILO Labour market

Financing Job Creation

This online course delves into the strategic role of public finance in fostering job creation, improving job quality, and ensuring inclusive access to employment.

ITC/ILO online course

Gender and employment

This online course will offer the opportunity to learn how to address gender inequality through integrated approaches that tackle both labour demand and supply challenges, and the interaction between the two.

Online event

Virtual launch of the report "Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions 2024: Unlocking jobs through investment in skills and nature-based...

This online launch event presents the main findings of the second in a series of ILO-UNEP-IUCN publications on Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions.

EMPLOYMENT Seminar Series

Does providing digital skills and improving digital jobs lead to better labour market outcomes in low- and medium-income countries?

This Seminar will discuss the impact of providing digital skills and improving digital jobs on people’s employment outcomes in LMICs based on a series of recent studies from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a global research...

Labour market

Setting future priorities for ASEAN: Leveraging labour market information for skills and employment policies

The workshop will present findings from a regional mapping for skills and employment policies in ASEAN and discuss future cooperation.

Research Seminar

Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows

Exploring Germany's green employment growth (2012–2022): Insights from text-mining task data, worker flows, and the green transition's impact on vulnerable workers.

Book launch and discussion

Rethinking economic transformation for sustainable and inclusive development

Webinar series on Apprenticeships for a Brighter Future – Episode 1

Financing of Apprenticeships

As apprenticeship systems evolve to meet the needs of modern economies, sustainable financing mechanisms are critical to ensuring their growth and accessibility. Governments, employers and workers’ organizations, as well as international...