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Employment in Focus series
Beyond tourism: A policy framework for economic diversification and job creation in the Caribbean
The Caribbean faces persistent employment and economic challenges, due to its overreliance on tourism and demographic challenges. ILO Employment and labour market specialist, Abdelmalik Muhummed explores how National Employment Policies can support...
2024 Labour Overview
Progress in the labour market in Latin America and the Caribbean remains insufficient
Despite some progress, a new ILO report highlights that labour informality, gender gaps, and access to formal employment for the youth remain key barriers to a more equitable labour market in Latin America and the Caribbean.
ILO Caribbean provides insights on insurance schemes to protect farmer and fisherfolk livelihoods
Regional event focused on enhancing sustainability through insurance schemes tailored to Caribbean contexts.
Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024
Number of youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET) a cause for concern, despite falling jobless rate
New ILO report finds high shares of youth NEETs, regional and gender gaps, and growing youth anxiety about work, despite encouraging global youth unemployment trends.
Generative AI could transform millions of jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean but digital divide poses challenges
Up to half of the jobs in the region for which GenAI could improve productivity – some 17 million – are hindered by gaps in digital access and infrastructure, according to a new ILO and World Bank study.
Business resilience is a key driver of economic prosperity in the Caribbean
Made up of mostly Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the Caribbean faces multiple vulnerabilities to climate hazards such as hurricanes, flooding, landslides, heatwaves, drought and sea level rise
Pivoting social dialogue to enhance the role of unions in COVID-19 recovery
Greater inclusion can encourage more human-centred approaches to labour solutions in the Caribbean
Occupational safety and health is at the heart of COVID-19 recovery: Mainstreaming policies on infection prevention and control,...
Prioritizing TVET in COVID-19 recovery efforts for the Caribbean: How CARICOM Member States can address delivery, continuity and resilience
51st Anniversary of the ILO Caribbean Office
Message from Dennis Zulu, Director, ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean on the Anniversary of the ILO Caribbean Office
As we observe the 51st anniversary of the opening of the Office, we look forward to a better tomorrow working together as ILO tripartite constituents, the UN family and other partners towards a more resilient and sustainable recovery, which will...
ILO: 34 million jobs lost in Latin America and the Caribbean due to crisis
COVID-19 leaves behind a drastic contraction in employment and income in the region. Signs of an early recovery suggest that millions could return to seek employment in the coming weeks, highlighted the ILO in a new edition of its Labour Overview.
Media Advisory: ILO to launch new Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean in times of COVID-19
The International Labour Organization (ILO) invites journalists to a virtual press conference on the latest employment data for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mr Dennis Zulu appointed as the New Director of the ILO Caribbean Office
Mr Guy Ryder, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), has appointed Mr Dennis Zulu, a Zambian national, as the new Director of ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean with effect from 01 September 2020.
COVID-19 and the world of work
ILO: Sustainable solutions urgently needed to address collapse of Caribbean tourism employment
New report assesses sector job losses and other decent work deficits due to COVID-19
ILO signs MOU with CARICOM to provide assistance on a regional LMIS
The MOU foresees further collaboration in the area of labour market information.
OECS labour officials and statisticians prepare for introduction of Labour Market Information System
A two-week training course to support the introduction of a new Labour Market Information System for members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
OECS members adopt common strategy for achieving decent work
With the support of the International Labour Office, Decent Work Programmes (2010-2015) have been developed by the tripartite constituents in each of the seven full members of the OECS
ILO hosts OSHE training workshop for OECS labour inspectors
The Workshop is one of the activities of the ILO's Programme on Occupational Safety and Health and Environment (OSHE) in the Caribbean which was initiated in January 2011.
CDB-ILO symposium: Short and long-term measures required for sustained post-crisis recovery
Consensus on recovery measures to encourage a return to economic and employment growth in the wake of the global economic crisis and a limited fiscal space, was reached among representatives of ministries of finance, labour, employers’ and workers’...
ILO launches employer and trade union guides on the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement
The ILO Office for the Caribbean, has published two user-friendly guides on the CARIFORUM-European Community (EC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) for use by Caribbean employers and trade unionists.