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Trade union leaders meet to discuss informal employment

The Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC) in cooperation with the ILO organized a subregional meeting for trade union leaders focusing on informal employment. The meeting took place in Kyrgyzstan’s...

ILO steps up cooperation in youth employment with Azerbaijan

On May 30 Azerbaijan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alekperov met with ILO Moscow Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva to discuss the implementation of ILO’s new project Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of...

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of...

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Georgia (GTUC) took place on the 29th of May in Tbilisi. It coincided with the first day of the work of the...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sharing knowledge in combating child labour

Within the framework of activities carried out by the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) in Central Asia two study tours were organized for tripartite partners in the region to learn experience of combating...

EU to allocate €1.9 billion to Eastern Parnership's members

Sattar Mehbolliyev re-elected as chair of Azerbaijan Trade Union Confederation

Corporate Social Responsibility/Global Compact Conference in Baku

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Global Compact Local Network (GCLN), National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers') Organizations of Azerbaijan and PwC Azerbaijan (GCLN Sustainability Partner), in cooperation with UNICEF...

Baku gathers trade unionists to discuss promotion of ILO Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and...

On October 2-3 Baku hosted a subregional meeting of trade unions on promotion and application of the ILO Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy.

Trade unions and youth employment: global challenges and new approaches – conference in Baku

The Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC) in cooperation with the ILO and the Azerbaijan Trade Union Confederation (AHIK) organized two-day conference “Trade unions and youth employment: global...

Azerbaijan: Conference on trade unions and youth global challenges and new approaches

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Youth in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia share their views on the jobs crisis

The ILO organized three national events in the Caucasus region during March as part of its ongoing global youth consultation.

Azerbaijan to ratify several ILO Conventions

Baku hosted a conference on the Role of Trade Unions in the Elimination of Discrimination in the Workplace

On November 23, Baku hosted a conference on the Role of Trade Unions in the Elimination of Discrimination in the Workplace.

Azerbaijan’s Trade Unions Confederation in talks to sign agreements with foreign trade unions

The Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan has been conducting talks to conclude agreements with trade unions of Ukraine, Turkey and Russia’s Leningrad and Astrakhan regions envisioning mutual social protection of migrant workers, the...

Azerbaijan introduces new mechanism to determine minimum wage

Within the framework of the second phase of Azerbaijan’s state programme for ensuring decent work new mechanisms and standards to determine a minimum wage will be established, Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alakbarov said in his...

Tajik remittances from Russia top 700m dollars in second quarter of 2011

In the second quarter of 2011 alone, 742m dollars was sent through money transfer from Russia to Tajikistan, the Central Bank of Russia has announced.

ILO handbook for labour inspectors on forced labour and human trafficking in the Armenian language was presented in Yerevan

The ILO handbook for labour inspectors on forced labour and human trafficking in the Armenian language was presented in Yerevan on October 4. The event was organized within the framework of the ILO project on strengthening of comprehensive...

ICEM, ILO Conduct Mine Safety Seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia

Official unemployment in Azerbaijan decreased by 0.24%

ILO handbook for labour inspectors on forced labour and human trafficking published in Azerbaijani language