All news: Uruguay
44th Technical Committee Meeting of ILO-CINTERFOR
Vocational training for the future of work: the challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean
The main Meeting on vocational training in the region will be held this week in Uruguay with more than 200 delegates from 20 countries. The Technical Committee of ILO/Cinterfor will address the challenges posed by the present and future of work.
Our impact, their voices
How a new law in Uruguay boosted care services while breaking gender stereotypes
Its innovative care system is cited as a model for the future of care, in the ILO’s latest report on the care economy.
Working time
Uruguay ratifies the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171)
ILO and CONASSAT Uruguay to launch campaign on occupational safety and health for young workers
The initiative is part of the activities carried out under the ILO SafeYouth@Work Project - Building a generation of safe and healthy workers, which includes among others, the mainstreaming of OSH content in technical-professional training programs...
Just transition and green jobs Workshop in Uruguay
A 3 day workshop on just transition and green jobs took place in Montevideo from 31 May to 2 June 2017.
President of Uruguay at the ILO Conference: Social dialogue and collective bargaining are essential for progress
Without agreements, there is no progress, President Tabaré Vázquez said at the opening day of the ILO annual meeting in Geneva. In his message to delegates, he warned that "we must not wait for the future, we must build it."
Migrant Workers
Labour migration: Towards more cooperation between Trade Unions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
Jobs in Latin America
Latin American and Caribbean unemployment to rise in 2016
The evolution of labour markets in the region will be analyzed at ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, to be held in Mexico this month.
International Youth Day: 12 August 2015
Formal employment: A critical way to engage young people
The theme for International Youth Day in 2015 is youth civic engagement, which includes economic and social engagement. Young workers who are part of the formal economy have a greater chance of having access to decent work as adults.
Latin America and the Caribbean assume the commitment to completely end child labour
The Focal Points Network of the “Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour”, launched its first face-to-face meeting in Brasilia
Occupational Safety and Health
Uruguay ratifies the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176)
Uruguay has ratified 15 occupational safety and health Conventions
Facing the crisis in Europe: reflections on the case of Uruguay
One year on, Uruguay is first to ratify ILO domestic work Convention
Uruguay becomes the first to ratify the ILO’s standard-setting Convention on Domestic Workers. The international treaty aims to improve the lives of domestic workers worldwide in the face of huge decent work deficits.
Montevideo: Seminar on Multinational Enterprises
Following a seminar held in Montevideo on 22-23 November 2011, trade unions of Latin America are committed to strengthen their cooperation on multinational enterprises at the confederal and sectoral levels.
Uruguay: Programme for job preservation by reducing working hours, combined with training
Uruguay: Recent reforms to unemployment insurance