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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.
Making entrepreneurship a real option for young people in the Pacific
The ILO promotes the importance of entrepreneurship education as part of a lifelong learning strategy, that can contribute to increasing the employability of young people by building an entrepreneurial mind-set, positive attitudes, self-confidence,...
Kiribati business survey opens communication: ILO
The Kiribati Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) launches the Kiribati Business Survey Report
Recognizing workers skills in Samoa
The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour and the Apprenticeship Council of Samoa have been running a trade testing scheme, offering workers who achieved their present status in their job by experience only, a platform to obtain formal...
Promoting creative industries through business awareness in schools in Kiribati
Through the UN One Fund initiative in Kiribati, the ILO in collaboration with UNESCO identified the opportunity to promote creative industries in schools. This initiative was welcomed by ILO tripartite partners and youth stakeholders in Kiribati.
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
Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Government of the Republic of Kiribati and the Government of the Republic of Fiji on...
Speech by the Director ILO Office for the South Pacific Island Countries
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.
Kiribati ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
Kiribati is the second country from the Pacific region, after Marshall Islands, to ratify the landmark Convention.
Kiribati begins the process of reforming its labour laws
Tripartite constituents in the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati have commenced a policy process to update labour laws to better apply fundamental ILO Conventions.
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...
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.
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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.