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

United Nations Expert Group Meeting On Poverty Eradication

The Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (IL0) organized a high-level Expert Group Meeting on “Poverty...

Europe and Central Asia

Informal Ministerial Meeting, 2011

Informal Meeting of Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs took place at the margin of the International Labour Conference (ILC). During this meeting – jointly organised by Hungary, holding the Presidency of the EU Council, and the ILO – the...

High level panel: "Employment and Social Justice in a Globalizing Economy"

Asia Regional Facilitators’ Training Course on Value Chain Development

The one week course will assist participants in understanding the concept of value chain development and to explore international good practices.

Employment and Social Protection in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

In the context of the Fourth U.N. Conference on least developed countries the ILO is organizing a special event to review areas of success in LDCs and stimulate a policy dialogue on the new boundaries of the broader development agenda.

Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Examine the Termination of Employment Convention and Recommendation

ILO Geneva, 18 - 21 April 2011 - The purpose of the meeting of a tripartite working group of experts was to examine the Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158) and the Termination of Employment Recommendation, 1982 (No. 166); to...

ILO Policy dialogue: “Transformative Policies for Decent Work in Least Developed Countries”

In preparation for the Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the ILO convened a policy dialogue to present a new ILO report, entitled “Growth, Productive Employment and Decent Work in the LDCs”. The event has provided an...

Global Dialogue Forum on Safety in the Supply Chain in Relation to Packing of Containers

The purpose of the Forum is to reach a common understanding by all stakeholders of the underlining issues pertinent to the packing of containers and a better understanding of the reasons that lead to the application of poor practices in packing of...

Training for Specialists in Indonesia: Assessing the Effects of Trade on Employment

The training is aimed to strengthen the participants’ skills to empirically analyse the effects of trade on employment using Social Accounting Matrix and multiplier analysis. In so doing, the training lays down the base for researchers and analysts...

Impact Assessment Workshop on Workplace Cooperation (Module 1 of SCORE Programme)

The workshop is conducted to mark the culmination of a series of enterprise trainings on Workplace Cooperation conducted in five pilot small medium enterprises (SMEs). The workshop is aimed to asses the progress of the implementation of the...

Workshop on Competency Based Training and Face-to-Face training of Instructors from BLKI Sorong

Taking consideration to the globalization, the work and the skills on demand are changing rapidly due to new technology and innovations. This has the effect to reduce the number of low or unskilled workplaces globally and in another way to extend...

The National Conference on Green Jobs: The Way Forward

The government of Indonesia like many other countries in Asia and the Pacific have voluntarily committed to reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions by 2020. Indonesia has committed itself to reduce GHG emission by 26 per cent and by up to 41 per...

SCORE Module Two on Quality Management Workshop

The main aim of the workshop is that the ILO and the SCORE constituents (the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, employers' organization (Apindo) and workers' organizations ) are agreed that the SCORE Module Quality is adapted and ready to be...

The Asia-Pacific Community of Practice on Green Jobs: Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Networking

The Community of Practice on Green Jobs is aimed to form the foundation for the creation of a Community of Practice on Green Jobs with an Asia-Pacific focus, and create a better understanding of what constituents and other partners need to...

Social Marketing with Yayasan Dharma Bhakti Astra

Being more vulnerable to external shocks, most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia have been finding it difficult to sustain operations due to the global financial crisis and as a result the quality of their jobs is being compromised in...

Lessons and Tools for Decent Work Seminar: The Case of Indonesia

In 2009 Indonesia formulated a Fiscal Stimulus Package worth IDR 73.3 trillion (1.4 per cent of GDP) to respond to the Global Financial Crisis. The package coupled tax cuts and tax subsidies with a substantial increase in infrastructure investment....

Inter-agency Technical Meeting: Building employment and decent work into sustainable recovery and development – The UN contribution

Global Dialogue Forum on New Developments and Challenges in the Hospitality and Tourism Sector and their impact on Employment, Human...

World Integrated Trade Solution Training

The training is aimed to build the capacity of social partners and government officials to analyse the effects of trade on employment and formulate coherent trade and employment policies.

A Series of Step-down Workshops on Financial Education for Migrant Workers and Their Families

Realizing to the poor understanding of migrant workers towards financial services and accesses, ILO Jakarta through its Combating Forced Labour and Trafficking of Indonesian Migrant Workers Project is developing a financial education programme for...