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Sub-regional tripartite workshop on wages policies in the Pacific island
Wage setting though minimum wages and collective bargaining agreements presents a number of practical challenges in the Pacific Island countries.
Pacific Island Countries benefit from ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC,2006)
A new “bill of rights” – the ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention – comes into force, ensuring protection for the world’s 1.5 million seafarers and fair competition for shipowners.
Pacific ratifications help to bring ‘Seafarers Bill of Rights’ into effect
The ILO has received the 30th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), fulfilling the final condition for the first global standard spanning continents and oceans, to go into effect in a year’s time
Tuvalu ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
The Government of Tuvalu deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). Tuvalu, which became an ILO member in 2008, is the fifth member State from the Asia-Pacific...
Tuvalu ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
Tuvalu is the fifth member State from the Asia-Pacific region – after Australia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Singapore – to have ratified the landmark Convention.
Technical Training Course Labour Statistics and Labour Market Information and Analysis in the Pacific
A first for the Pacific technical training on LMIA in the Pacific.
Pacific regional tripartite workshop considered ILO Maritime Labour Convention
The workshop that was held in Nadi, Fiji from 27 to 29 October 2010 brought together seafarers, ship-owners and government labour and maritime officers from Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to promote the...
Asia and the Pacific Region
Decent work approach to recovery urged by Pacific Island labour ministers and social partners
Pacific Island Labour Ministers and social partners have reached an agreement to support a jobs-led recovery by promoting decent work in the Pacific region by adopting the Port Vila Statement on Decent Work and its accompanying ‘Pacific Action Plan...
Jobs-led recovery and plan for sustainable decent work at ILO high level meeting of ten Pacific member States at Port Vila, Vanuatu, 8–9...
In the aftermath of the global economic downturn and a lingering jobs crisis, the ILO is convening a high-level meeting on Decent Work for Sustainable Development in the Pacific from 8 to February in Vanuatu.
Questions and answers on jobs recovery and the development of decent work for people in the Pacific Islands
In February 2010, at Port Vila, Vanuatu, Labour Ministers, Senior Labour officials and representatives of worker and employer organizations from all eight countries – Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon...
Tuvalu becomes 182nd ILO Member State
Tuvalu has become the 182nd Member State of the International Labour Organization (ILO)...