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Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

StreetNet International: Organizing street vendors towards formalization and economic empowerment

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Trade unions

ITUC Global Rights Index shows workers’ rights are frequently violated in Central and Eastern Europe

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released in June its yearly Global Rights Index. For 2019, it shows that Central and Eastern Europe still has a long way to go before workers can access the rights laid down in international labour...

Decent wage

Salaries are due on time: ILO launches new project to protect wages in Ukraine

In 2018, the overall monthly wage arrears totaled 5% of the nationwide pay roll in Ukraine. The new ILO project will tackle wage arrears and will also work on minimum wage fixing and equal pay.

ILO partners and beneficiaries

Voices of change in Ukraine: ILO community celebrates Centenary

As the oldest specialized UN agency, the International Labour Organization celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Exactly one hundred years ago, on 11 April 1919, the plenary session of the Paris Peace Conference accepted the draft ILO...

ILO International Training Centre Programmes

Skills Development and TVET: a valuable training offer for the CEE region

Are you passionate about TVET, Skills Development or Youth Employment and would like to increase your knowledge in this highly complex policy area? The offer of the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO) may be the right learning...

Local employment partnerships

ILO provided assistance for the creation of 550 new jobs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The job creation project funded by EU and implemented by ILO facilitated the establishment of 19 local employment partnerships in BiH which trained more than 1,600 unemployed persons. A third of them have already been placed into new jobs and the...

Non-standard forms of employment

Strengthening social protection for the future of work—extending the social security to workers in non-standard employment

Europe has been experiencing a growing diversification in working arrangements, as exemplified through the decline of standard employment and the significant growth of non-standard forms of employment. These developments were discussed at a recent...

Informal employment

ILO helps Ukraine to reduce undeclared work

Tackling informal employment is a priority of the Ukrainian Government and ILO has been supporting the country since 2016 in fighting undeclared work. Recently Government came out with new data showing that undeclared work is in decline and that...

Social dialogue

Strengthening workers’ voices – ILO trains trade union leaders and lawyers

Trade unions across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) experience that the rights of workers are under threat and have voiced concerns over attempts to undermine organized labour. Although the region has an impressive track record of ratifications of...

Art for social change

Documentary films tell gripping human stories of what work means today

ILO marked its Centenary by screening documentaries about labour issues from 7 countries all over the world in collaboration with Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. The films are captivating imprints of the world of work...

ILO Conventions

Strengthening maternity protection in Ukraine

Pension reform

ILO advises Ukraine not to move forward with pension privatization

ILO News talked to Fabio Duran-Valverde, Head of the Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistics Unit, Social Protection Department, ILO Geneva, and Kenichi Hirose, Senior Social Protection Specialist, ILO-Budapest, about the global and regional trends...

Op-ed

Ukrainian State Employment Service has far more to offer than unemployment benefits

Out of the 45 million Ukrainians, 1.7 million are unemployed, says the Labour Force Survey of March 2018. Less than 21% of them are registered with the State Employment Service (SES). But where are the rest?

Youth employment

Teaching modern vocations: a visit to the Hungarian VET system

On 27 September, 2018, a group of ILO constituents from the Western Balkans, Moldova and Ukraine, participants of the ILO Regional Research Seminar, visited the Budapest Complex Center of Vocational Training (BCCVT) and Manfréd Weiss Vocational...

Occupational Safety and Health in mines

Safety pays: ILO trains top level managers of state coal mines in Ukraine on work safety

The ILO project on improving safety and health in Ukrainian mines brought together for the first time ever 28 top executives of mining corporations to increase their awareness about their responsibilities and the business case for investing into...

Crowdworking in Ukraine

Crowdworking in Ukraine: A success for some but concerns for others

Translator, Julia Gotra, has made a success of working on a digital labour platform. However, an ILO report on online work in Ukraine shows that there are also risks associated with this new flexible way of working.

Local employment partnerships

ILO launches single biggest project in South-Eastern Europe to promote jobs in Ukraine

New ILO programme brings together businesses, schools, employment services, the social partners and other civil society organizations to create jobs for youth, women and people in rural areas.

Safety at work

How the ILO helps prevent mining accidents in Ukraine

Ukraine is among the countries with the highest rates of work accidents in mines. Therefore, the ILO trains miners on the prevention of accidents in the industry.

Local employment partnerships

ILO single biggest project in sub-region supports job creation in Ukraine

The ILO launched its new programme to establish local partnerships of employers, schools, employment services, government agencies, social partners and civil society to address their employment needs.

Impact stories

How the ILO helps to prevent mining accidents in Ukraine

Ukraine is among the countries with the highest rates of work accidents in mines. Therefore the ILO trains miners on the prevention of accidents in the industry.