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Migrant worker accommodation standards in ASEAN need further improvement
A new report by the ILO highlights migrant worker living standards in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia and the steps needed to ensure decent and adequate accommodation.
Women entrepreneurs connect across ASEAN
Networking event helps women entrepreneurs forge business relationships and draw strength and inspiration from their peers across ASEAN.
International Labour Organization and Singapore's Mininstry of Manpower renew cooperation agreement
Joint labour-related activities to support governments, employers and workers throughout the ASEAN region
Asia-Pacific labour market insights
Labour productivity trends in Asia and the Pacific highlight uneven COVID-19 impacts
Enhanced labour productivity is key to boost living standards and is prioritized in the Sustainable Development Goals. In Asia and the Pacific, growth in labour productivity has been instrumental in reducing poverty in recent decades.
Asia-Pacific labour market insights
Getting older: Confronting Asia and the Pacific’s ageing labour force
Asia and the Pacific’s ageing population is a trend that is expected to steadily increase. Ageing societies means older labour forces and higher old-age dependency ratios, increasing the pressures on economies to close pension and social protection...
Press release
ILO forecasts slow jobs recovery in ASEAN region
Upward trend in COVID-19 cases and slow vaccine roll out likely to prolong the labour market crisis and hamper recovery.
Interview
10 years on from the ILO Domestic Workers Convention: What has changed?
Over half of the world’s domestic workers are in Asia and the Pacific. 10 years on from the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), Anna Olsen, Technical Specialist at the International Labour Organization’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN...
Green jobs in ASEAN
Further policy strengthening required for green jobs to meet full ASEAN potential
First of its kind regional study highlights policy readiness of Association of Southeast Asian Nations to green their economies and areas where additional policies are required to capture full potential of shift towards green jobs and a just...
ILO and Singapore cooperation on labour issues to continue
Extension of Partnership Agreement between International Labour Organization and Singapore Ministry of Manpower will see continuation of collaboration and joint activities throughout the ASEAN region.
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
ILO welcomes Singapore port’s new measures to help seafarers and ease crew rotations
Singapore has brought in new measures to facilitate the safe rotation of crews at its port, while protecting ships and the local community.
ILO/UN Women study
Public attitudes towards migrant workers remain unfavourable in ASEAN destination countries
Despite their positive contribution, public attitudes towards migrant workers remain unfavourable in ASEAN destination countries, new ILO and UN Women study reveals.
Migration
Migrating in ASEAN with a mobile phone: Gender gaps are not only in migrants’ salaries, but also in digital access
The increasingly widespread access to and use of the Internet in the ASEAN region has meant that more migrant workers are now seeking information using social media platforms. However, obtaining accurate and reliable information is still a...
Migration
Bolstering the efforts to ensure decent working conditions for women migrants in Thai construction sector
ILO organized a roundtable meeting on ‘Safety, protection and rights of women construction workers in Thailand” to identify possible intervention to ensure equal and fair pay, better living conditions, safety and protection of women migrant...
What Asian countries should not miss while preparing the future of work
OpEd by ILO economists Sara Elder, Christian Viegelahn and Tejeshwi Nath Bhattarai, authors of 'Preparing for the future of work: National policy responses in ASEAN +6', a study of how ASEAN+6 countries are preparing their labour markets for...
Op-ed
Migration in Southeast Asia should be an opportunity for workers, communities and economies – not traffickers
Op-ed by Ms Tomoko Nishimoto, the ILO’s Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific; Mohammad Narciri, the Regional Director of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok, Thailand; and Mr Jeremy Douglas, the...
Domestic Workers' Day
An aging Asia increases the demand for domestic workers. But what about their rights?
Mr. Nilim Baruah, International Labour Organization’s Regional Migration Specialist for Asia and the Pacific, reviews progress on migrant domestic workers’ rights in Asia.
Occupational Safety and Health
Singapore ratifies the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155)
Singapore becomes the 68th ILO Member State to have ratified this key occupational safety and health instrument.
Singapore Conference on the Future of Work
Embracing technology and inclusive growth
Labour migration
ILO welcomes Joint Statement of the ASEAN Trade Union Council and the ASEAN Confederation of Employers
On 4 to 5 April 2019, the ASEAN Trade Union Council (ATUC) and the ASEAN Confederation of Employers (ACE) held its second Joint Dialogue on labour migration in Manila, The Philippines, supported by the ILO.
Labour migration
ILO: Social protection coverage has improved in ASEAN, but migrant workers remain among the least protected
Despite considerable progress made in the expansion of social security coverage of migrant workers in ASEAN, migrant workers remain among the least protected, says the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new study.