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Unemployment insurance: What to do during growth?

Essential services for employment during recovery

Employment policies: From crisis to recovery

The price of excluding people with disabilities from the workplace

Mainstreaming of women and men with disabilities in all aspects of society the economy and development efforts is crucial in helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Yet, because of stigma and discrimination many disabled people live in...

The First Job Fair and Entrepreneur Expo: A peaceful Aceh starts with decent work

The first Job Fair and Entrepreneur Expo was organized in Banda Aceh on November 24-26, 2010. More than 2,000 jobs were offered by 35 small and large companies in this job fair, including banks, airline companies, mining, electrical power, etc. 35...

G20 Summit

G20 urged to implement commitment to jobs, social protection

Amidst widespread concern about the slow recovery in employment, Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO, urged the G20 Leaders to implement their commitment to the central role of social protection and decent work in global recovery.

ILO, WTO, World Bank and OECD joint press release

Joint Press release - More open trade and well designed employment policies: key to supporting growth

Open markets play a pivotal role in supporting growth and job creation, says a new joint report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the International Labour Organization, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.

Governing Body, November 2010 session

The impact of the global economic crisis on public administration

The economic crisis also had an impact on employment and working conditions in public administration. A new ILO report prepared for the November 2010 session of its Governing Body recommends that governments engage in social dialogue when seeking...

ILO report sees “volatile and uneven recovery” across economic sectors in 2010

The ILO’s Sectoral Activities Department has released new data showing that employment is recovering unevenly across sectors in the first half of 2010 and will continue to do so over the remainder of the year. The new ILO paper based on data from 13...

Sectoral impact of the crisis

ILO report sees “volatile and uneven recovery” across economic sectors in 2010

The ILO’s Sectoral Activities Department has released new data showing that employment is recovering unevenly across sectors in the first half of 2010 and will continue to do so over the remainder of the year.

ILO report sees “volatile and uneven recovery” across economic sectors in 2010

GENEVA (ILO News)– The ILO’s Sectoral Activities Department has released new data showing that employment is recovering unevenly across sectors in the first half of 2010 and will continue to do so over the remainder of the year.

G20 Summit in Seoul (11-12 November 2010)

Amid mixed employment data for 2010, ILO urges G20 to intensify focus on jobs

Amid a “fragile labour market” marked by persistent high unemployment, “slack” jobs growth and declining wages, the International Labour Office urged the Group of 20 to intensify its focus on “productive employment and job-intensive growth policies”...

Mexico: Extend temporary employment programme

Chile: Fiscal policy and employment. The contingency programme against unemployment

Argentina: Municipal employment bureaus

Mexico: Job preservation programme

Brazil: Conditional transfers as response to the crisis the bolsa família programme

Perú: Special labour retraining programme Revalora Perú

Uruguay: Recent reforms to unemployment insurance

Colombia: Youth training programme: 250,000 Plan