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European Commission High-Level Conference

Youth Guarantee: Making it happen

Guy Ryder's address at the session on Europe's Youth Guarantee in a global context - G20 work on youth employment. Check against delivery

Seafarers' rights

ILO Director remarks at the Special Tripartite Committee established under the Maritime Labour Convention

ILO, Maritime sector to address abandonment of seafarers and shipowners’ liability

Bangladesh

Ryder: Rana Plaza legacy must be improved working conditions globally

The ILO Director-General highlights the human cost of poor working conditions and calls for action to ensure the Rana Plaza tragedy is not repeated.

Migrants Workers

Cinzia Del Rio: “A migration policy is urgent in the European Union”

The recent deaths of hundreds of migrants seeking to reach Europe highlight the need to have a comprehensive policy on migration. According to Cinzia Del Rio who chairs the international department of Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL), Italian unions...

New authorities delegated to RS by Slovakia

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) and the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development of Slovakia have signed a new agreement on the delegation of authority for the statutory survey of ships flying the flag of Slovakia, RS...

System classifying jobs into categories enters into force in Russia

Since March 28 a law on special assessment of working conditions that creates economic incentives for employers to improve working conditions has entered into force in Russia.

Ways to implement decent work principles – conference in Chelyabinsk

On March 27-28 Chelyabinsk, Russia’s Urals city, hosted an international research and practice conference focusing on ways to implement decent work principles. It was organized by the ILO, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR),...

Youth employment

Youth Guarantees: an opportunity not to be wasted

Joint ILO, Youth Intergroup of the European Parliament, Youth Intergroup of the Italian Parliament, press release, on the occasion of the seminar on «Youth Guarantees: a response to the youth employment crisis» held at the Chamber of Deputies, Rome,...

Why the European Social Model is still relevant

"In some countries, key elements of the ESM have been radically transformed, and sometimes dismantled, even though they clearly were not the cause of the crisis or the budgetary deficits," says ILO Senior labour economist Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.

Why the European Social Model is still relevant

'In some countries, key elements of the ESM have been radically transformed, and sometimes dismantled, even though they clearly were not the cause of the crisis or the budgetary deficits,' says ILO Senior labour economist Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.

Labour policies

Guy Ryder: “The European Social Model is key to overcome the crisis”

Labour migration

Crisis prompts Albanian workers to return home

The first modern Albanian employment centre opened last month to provide better services to jobseekers, particularly migrant workers returning to Albania from crisis countries in Europe.

Lecture of ILO Deputy Director-General at Leuven University

Lecture of ILO Deputy Director-General, Gilbert Houngbo, at Leuven University

“The dynamism of competition should lead to a ‘race to the top’ instead of a ‘race to the bottom’ in labour standards”

Gilbert Houngbo, ILO Deputy Director-General, addressed the University of Leuven, Belgium, in a public lecture on the “Key challenges for global protection of labour rights”.

Inaugural Lecture

Modern slavery: The British challenge in international context

World day of Social Justice 2014

ILO Director-General: "We are faced with a deep social crisis, a crisis too of social justice"

As the world marks the Day of Social Justice, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder urges "policy-makers to converge on the ambition of a real global socio-economic recovery – a recovery for all – and a Post-2015 Development Agenda that helps lift all out...

New ILO Publication

Inequality is not inevitable

A new ILO book shows that the growing gap between rich and poor is only partially associated with technological change. The divide is mostly the result of economic and institutional policies that preceded the global economic and social crisis and...

Rosstat: national unemployment averages 5.5% in 2013

The average unemployment rate in the Russian Federation equaled 5.5% in 2013, data released by the Federal Statistics Service on Friday showed.

Russia set to ratify ILO Paid Education Leave Convention

On February 5, the Russian government considered the issue of ratifying the ILO Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140). The ILO convention fully meets norms of the Russian Labour Code.