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EU, ILO and ESCAP launch first ever labour Migration Statistics Guide for the Pacific Region
The guide explains key concepts relevant to international labour migration statistics and makes concrete recommendations on how Pacific Island countries can move towards a harmonized system for collection and analysis of timely, accurate and...
ILO to promote decent work in Small Island Developing States at SIDS Conference in Samoa
ILO Supports seven young people to participate at the SIDS Youth Forum
The International Labour Organization this week announced seven young people to take part in the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Youth Forum to take place on the 28th of August 2014 in Apia, Samoa
ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries launches report “Decent Work and Social Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States -...
To mark International Youth Day, The International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for Pacific Island Countries have launched a report, entitled “Decent Work and Social Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States”.
Improving data collection of labour statistics (including labour migration statistics)in Pacific Island Countries
The ILO in collaboration with partners, UNESCAP and SPC has completed a sub-regional technical workshop on labour and migration statistics for Pacific Island Countries. This technical workshop took place from 28 July to 1 August 2014 in Nadi, Fiji...
ILO Director-General Report Stimulates Debate on Fair Labour Migration
Migration is a key aspect of the world of work in the Pacific. Of all world regions, the Pacific has the highest per capita level of international mobility amongst its resident populations, especially those in Polynesia and Micronesia.
The ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries Calls on Governments, Employers and Unions to Focus on Eliminating Gender Discrimination and...
The occasion of International Women’s Day provides an important opportunity to reflect on progress towards gender equality in the labour markets of Pacific Island Countries.
ILO body adopts new minimum monthly wage for seafarers
The mechanism is the only one in the ILO for setting the basic wage for any industry.
ILO: Youth employment is a major challenge for young people in the Pacific
ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto highlighted that youth employment is a major challenge, faced by young people in the Pacific, when he addressed the 3rd Meeting of the Pacific Youth...
Sports and youth employment
In the Pacific region, sport plays a very important role in life. Youth unemployment is also rampant. Linking sports to youth employment could bring about positive results as young peoples’ skills in sports can be useful at work.
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
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 Island Countries explore ratification of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention
The ILO Workshop on Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, is held on 27-29 October 2010.
Spotlight falls on decent work in Pacific Island States
Progress towards building a sustainable future and implementing decent work for countries in the Pacific was highlighted at a special event held during the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva.
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...