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Textile industry

ILO and H&M Group expand partnership

The ILO and H&M Group have broadened their cooperation to further improve working conditions and productivity in textile and garment industry supply chains. This partnership will help drive both the Decent Work and Sustainable Development Goal...

Industrial relations

Multi-employer social dialogue benefits southern garment workers

The collective action can reduce staff turnover, strengthen the relationship between workers and employers, and promote stable industrial relations, allowing workers to enjoy the same working conditions across firms.

Sharing lessons learnt in promoting evidence-based wages fixing and collective bargaining in the garment sector

The Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC) came to an end in March 2019, and contributed to promoting evidence-based minimum wage fixing and wage policy development and interest-based collective bargaining in the garment sector in...

Garment sector stakeholders’ firm on ensuring compliance with labour standards

GSSF members concurred that policy and advocacy on formulating a wage policy framework is a key step towards minimum wage reforms.

Tripartism and social dialogue in Bangladesh

Navigating successful trade unions

Tripartism and social dialogue in Bangladesh

Taking social dialogue to the next level

Our impact, Their voices

Myanmar apparel: ILO project helps factories to improve efficiency and productivity

Garment manufacturing involves various operations carried out by different operators at different stations. If not executed efficiently, these operations may jeopardize productivity, cause economic loss, and ultimately damage workplace relations.

How should minimum wages be determined?

A technical session on Minimum Wage determination was organised as part of a knowledge sharing initiative by the BMZ funded project of the ILO ‘Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains: A Programme of Action for Asia and the Garment Sector’ (LSGSC).

Development cooperation

ILO and Sweden join forces to promote decent work in Asian garment supply chains

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the ILO signed a Cooperation Agreement to start a new project to improve working conditions and productivity for women and men workers and enhance the sustainability of the garment...

Panel discussion on ‘The benefits: learning from practical experience of producers – case study of collective bargaining at Kohinoor...

The ILO Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC) project, which is funded by BMZ on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, facilitated a panel discussion at the regional Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue for Change Conference on Scaling up...

Pakistan

Global Wage Report 2018/19: What lies behind Gender Pay Gap

The ILO country office for Pakistan organised a technical session on the Global Wage Report 2018/19 as part of its centenary activities.

Entrepreneurship

ILO certified SCORE trainers bring innovation to Myanmar factories

Over 100 Myanmar factory owners and managers attended an event where ILO certified SCORE consultants presented SCORE Training, a training and consulting package designed to improve the performance of small and medium sized factories.

Project launch

Clear Cotton project seeks halt to child labour in West Africa and Pakistan

Four-year project co-funded by the EU kicks off with workshop participants vowing to make cotton production sustainable.

Industrial relations

Myanmar garment industry managers trained on fair HR procedures

The ILO has teamed up with twenty garment factories in Yangon to promote positive and sound industrial relations at the workplace level, and to build confidence between workers and employers through good HR practices.

Media advisory

Workshop to discuss innovative approaches to eliminate child and forced labour in the cotton industry

News

Textile and Kitchen Workshops at SADA Women Development and Solidarity Centre

The textile and kitchen workshops started operating on 1 October 2018 at the SADA Women Development and Solidarity Centre under the project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” implemented jointly by UN Women, ILO and ASAM.

Partnering for success

Better Work Forum emphasizes shared responsibility for a competitive Bangladesh garment industry

Elimination of child and forced labour

Stakeholders committed to promote fundamental principles and rights at work in Pakistan’s cotton, textile and garment value chains

The ILO office in Pakistan carved out the roadmap for the elimination of child and forced labour and towards promoting fundamental principles and rights at work (FPRW) in the cotton, textile and garment value chains in Pakistan. These interventions...

Better Work Viet Nam

Partnerships crucial for future of sustainable supply chains

Better Work and Vietnamese garment industry partners gather to discuss sustainability in an era of uncertainty.

ILO Response to the Syria Refugee Crisis

Employment gives Syrian refugee women in Jordan “second chance”

The ILO and partners are helping Syrian refugees find jobs in Jordan’s garment sector, as part of efforts to implement an agreement between the EU and Jordan to relax rules of origin.