All news: Americas, Caribbean
Tourism
Caribbean employers and ILO explore pathways to more productive, formal tourism
ILO and Caribbean employers are exploring how productivity, better working conditions and practical pathways to formalization can support more resilient and inclusive tourism across the Eastern Caribbean.
Productivity
Trinidad and Tobago’s productivity initiative gains business and wider government buy-in
Trinidad and Tobago is fostering important partnerships for the rollout of a national initiative that will support enterprises to become more productive while improving working conditions and job quality.
Occupational Safety and Health
Guyana strengthens OSH capacity as ILO–NEBOSH project moves into implementation
Guyana is strengthening national capacity to prevent workplace risks through ILO–NEBOSH training, tripartite consultation and support for stronger occupational safety and health institutions.
Employment policy
The British Virgin Islands’ draft national employment policy approaches final technical stage
The BVI’s draft National Employment Policy developed with ILO technical assistance nears completion, with priorities for jobs, skills, worker protection and labour-market resilience.
Technical cooperation
PROFIT and SAMS promote cocoa and breadfruit
A high-level delegation visited Grand’Anse to see the results of the joint ILO and WFP project supported by Norway, France and Switzerland, and to reaffirm their support for promising agricultural value chains with strong potential to generate...
Labour justice
From assessment to action: Strengthening access to labour justice in Trinidad and Tobago
The ILO is supporting the Industrial Court of Trinidad and Tobago to strengthen conciliation of labour disputes as part of evidence-based effort to improve access to labour justice.
Technical cooperation
ILO Caribbean Office begins first high-level mission to Haiti following new country programme agreement
ILO high-level mission signals immediate action to support decent work, social dialogue and labour cooperation in Haiti
Caribbean labour migration
CARICOM, ILO and IDB advance regional labour migration agenda
With support from the ILO and the IDB, the CARICOM Secretariat and regional tripartite partners are advancing practical steps to move labour migration policy from regional agreement to national implementation.
Economic development
Making employment a Macroeconomic Priority: Emerging Policy Discourse in the Caribbean
A regional ILO expert workshop examines how better integration and coherence between growth, jobs and resilience can sustain an inclusive development in the Caribbean.
Community development
PROSPER Project advances community-led economic planning in southern Belize
The EU-funded ILO PROSPER Project is advancing community-led economic development in southern Belize by moving Local Action Groups into implementation in Seine Bight and Maya Centre while initiating participation discussions in Golden Stream.
Safety at work
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines moves to modernize workplace safety
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is working with the ILO to modernize its occupational safety and health framework, strengthen tripartite dialogue and build national capacity to better apply international labour standards.
Labour relations
Grenada puts decent work commitments into action
Implementation of Grenada’s new Decent Work Country Programme rapidly advances as ILO carries out in-country training to strengthen dispute resolution and collective bargaining capacity.
Article
Energy crisis, critical minerals and jobs: what's at stake for Latin America and the Caribbean
The new energy geopolitics is reshaping employment, investment and development prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The challenge will be to turn the opportunities created by the energy transition into more and better jobs through strong...
Social protection
Why social dialogue matters for building pension systems people can trust
Pension reforms often focus on financial sustainability, but long-term success also depends on legitimacy, solidarity and public confidence. Social dialogue can help achieve all three.
EU-funded ILO PROSPER Project on track
PROSPER demonstrates steady progress and strategic alignment
The PROSPER Project Steering Committee finalized all 15 target communities, advanced skills training, and strengthened alignment with national and EU-funded initiatives.
Op-Ed
Decent work for domestic workers can’t wait any longer
Fifteen years after the adoption of ILO Convention No. 189, millions of domestic workers in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to face high levels of informality and limited access to social protection. In this op-ed, the ILO Regional Director...
114th Session of the ILC
Caribbean leadership helps shape the future of work at the International Labour Conference
From helping steer the adoption of the first international labour standard on decent work in the platform economy to assuming key leadership roles, Caribbean countries demonstrated how small island and developing States can influence global labour...
International Labour Standards
Cuba joins efforts to promote decent work at sea
Cuba is the 113th Member State of the ILO to have ratified the Maritime Labour Convention
International Labour Standards
The Government of the Bahamas renews its commitment to the promotion of occupational safety and health as well as maternity protection
Labour migration and skills development
Latin America and the Caribbean moves closer to mutual recognition of skills certifications through digital credentials
In Panama, representatives from 13 countries advanced the Skills Passport, a regional mechanism designed to verify competencies and facilitate labour mobility through mutually recognized digital credentials.
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