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ILO launches regional social dialogue project with CEC and CCL
A number of activities, covering the first 12 months of the Project, will serve to strengthen workers' and employers' organizations to engage more effectively in social dialogue at the regional level.
ILO opens Ninth Meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers in The Bahamas
ILO is strongly committed to convening the Caribbean Ministers of Labour Meeting every two years, to listen to the constituents and to respond to their needs with practical solutions, says ILO Director-General.
9th ILO Meeting of the Caribbean Ministers of Labour in The Bahamas to address ‘Decent Work for Sustainable Development’
The Meeting will bring together Ministers with responsibility for Labour, Permanent Secretaries and high-level officials of the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, as well as representatives of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), and the...
Canada and International Partners support successful UWI Symposium on Caribbean Court of Justice
Experts discuss the experience of other Commonwealth countries in replacing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom with their own final appellate courts and the judgments and role of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Caribbean Governments working towards ratification of ILO Conventions
Governments of Barbados and Jamaica moving to ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (Convention 189)
Labour standards
Barbados ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
Barbados is the 38th ILO Member State, and the fifth State from the Caribbean region – after Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – to have ratified the landmark Maritime Labour Convention,...
Reflections on the case of Barbados
ECLAC and ILO Predict that Unemployment will Fall Again to 6.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012
Publication reviews recent experiences of the region's countries in terms of policies and programmes to boost employment
Barbados tripartite partners endorse priority areas of an action plan for better business-enabling environment
The Government, through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and the social partners have selected three priority areas to be addressed in the action plan
Caribbean Pathways to decent work
Video highlighting the experiences of Caribbean countries - from the Bahamas and Belize to Barbados and Grenada - of implementing the DWA through ILO-supported Decent Work Country Programmes and initiatives
Caribbean countries join in commemoration of World Day for Safety and Health at Work – 28 April
With a focus on promotion of occupational safety and health (OSH) in a green economy.
Barbados Labour Minister participates in ILO panel discussion on the occasion of International Women’s Day
Barbados: Workshop on Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises
The Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV) took part in a workshop held in Bridgetown (Barbados) on 16 and 17 January on Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises.
Workshop on Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises
A workshop is to be organized to present and validate a draft report on an enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Barbados
Labour inspectors undergo ILO OSH training
Labour inspectors of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will undergo training on occupational safety and health by the International Labour Office (ILO) for the Caribbean
Committee on Domestic Workers: Comments by Barbados Workers’ Delegate
Committee on Domestic Workers: Ms MOORE (Worker, Barbados; speaking on behalf of the Worker Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Domestic...
Tripartite cooperation on national and economic issues to be explored at Government of Barbados-ILO Caribbean symposium
The Government and the social partners of Barbados and the International Labour Organization (ILO) will host a Tripartite Caribbean Symposium on ‘Tripartism and Social Dialogue: Comparative experiences in dealing with economic and social...
CDB-ILO symposium: Short and long-term measures required for sustained post-crisis recovery
Consensus on recovery measures to encourage a return to economic and employment growth in the wake of the global economic crisis and a limited fiscal space, was reached among representatives of ministries of finance, labour, employers’ and workers’...
CDB-ILO symposium to focus on economic and employment recovery in wake of global economic crisis