All news: Financial and professional services
Teleworking
What are the benefits and challenges of telework in communication technologies and financial services?
ILO Global Dialogue Forum explores how teleworking can provide a better work-life balance for employees, lead to greater productivity for employers and help governments promote inclusive job opportunities.
Public-private partnership
ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility and Africa Re partner to enhance microinsurance markets in Africa
Partnership between the ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility and Africa Re will develop the capacity of insurance providers to offer valuable insurance products to the financially excluded population, and will promote cross-country collaboration and...
Public-private partnership
ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility and Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA) partner to change management for better impact insurance
Partnership will support insurers to provide valuable and scalable insurance solutions to low-income households and SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Promoting social dialogue on financial services reforms
Representatives from six Asia and the Pacific countries attended a two-day Tripartite Regional Workshop in Jakarta from 5-6 August 2015, discussing ways promote social dialogue on financial services reforms in selected Asia and Pacific countries....
World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015
Private sector services and the care economy, key engines of job creation
ILO report points to accelerating job growth in private sector services over the next 5 years and an increasing demand for higher-skilled workers.
2014 Global Employment Trends
Economic recovery producing profits, not jobs
A weak global recovery has failed to create jobs, but is yielding considerable profits for many businesses, a new report says.
Y20 Russia Summit Agenda announced
Providing better financial access to Indonesian micro and small enterprises
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Indonesia have significant potential to create jobs and reduce poverty by providing access to a range of financial services. The sector is gearing up for exponential growth and expected to reach more people in...
Banking crisis
Financial cooperatives: A safe bet in a crisis
A new ILO book says that financial cooperatives fared better than the big investor-owned banks during the economic crisis.
Banking co-ops
What financial cooperatives can teach the big banks
The success of financial cooperatives during the global financial crisis shows there is a credible alternative to the investment-owned banking system.
Social finance
Giving banks a good name
Is it possible for banks to devote themselves to the financial welfare of workers and still survive financial crises? The ILO looks at the Rokin Bank, a union-led cooperative in Japan.
Cooperatives show the way out of the crisis
Cooperatives have been more resilient to the global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. The UN International Day of Cooperatives, which takes place this year on 7 July, offers a chance for cooperatives to reassert their position in the...
RBAP partners with ILO & Gates Foundation to expand microinsurance to millions of low income Filipinos
Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP) research and training arm, the Rural Bankers Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (RBRDFI), will receive a US$ 100,000 grant from the International Labour Organization (ILO) under the...
Social security
Media Advisory: Seminar to examine social security in times of crisis: Impact, challenges and responses – Geneva, 24-25 April 2009
Social security programmes worldwide are facing exceptional challenges imposed by the global financial crisis and are responding in innovative ways. An international seminar this week will hear how social security funds have suffered unprecedented...
Coops and the global financial crisis
Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. ILO Online spoke with Hagen Henry, chief of the ILO’s Cooperatives Branch.
Brazil extends Bolsa Familia during the economic crisis
When the first signs of financial trouble emerged in the industrialized world, predictions were that the “decoupling effect” would insulate the developing world from the crisis. Today, the economic crisis is clearly global and no country is immune....
Governing Body
ILO Governing Body to discuss response to the economic and social crisis
The Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) which opened on 5 March is to examine urgent new policies and measures to mitigate the severe impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the world of work and to stimulate a...
Global financial crisis
ILO delegates call for urgent new policy measures to address growing job losses in the financial sector
Worker, employer and government representatives called for urgent new policies and measures to mitigate the severe impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the more than 20 million financial sector workers worldwide and to stimulate a...
Address by the ILO Director-General to sectoral meeting on financial crisis and finance sector workers
Global financial crisis
ILO meeting to discuss employment crunch in the financial sector
More than 100 senior representatives of governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, gather here on 24-25 February to discuss the impact of the economic crisis on the more than 20 million people employed in the financial sector worldwide.