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Lasting shocks from the Middle East crisis: Emerging risks for the world of work

Beyond its human toll, the Middle East crisis is hitting jobs, incomes, and working conditions worldwide. Early action is critical to protect labour markets, especially for vulnerable workers, small businesses, and low-income households.

Just transition

Timor-Leste strengthens social dialogue on climate change and Just Transition

The ILO supports Timor-Leste to strengthening its tripartite engagement on climate change and labour issues.

Digital wages

From cash to digital: Social partners drive wage digitization for SMEs in Indonesia

The ILO Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work has supported Indonesian partners in advancing responsible digital wage payments for SMEs.

After the typhoons: Embedding employment and resilience in Viet Nam’s disaster recovery systems

When back-to-back typhoons devastated northern and central Viet Nam, the ILO worked alongside farmers, cooperative workers, and local governments to help communities recover - and to prepare for the next typhoon.

Gender equality

Towards pay equity: Laws, wages, care policies, and social dialogue are key to delivering pay equity

A new guide from the ILO shows that a bold, whole-of-society approach is the path to addressing stubborn and persistent gender pay gaps.

This is social justice

Digital tools boost ancestral craft and livelihoods in Colombia

For centuries, Wayúu Indigenous artisans like Arleidis Laudith Puschaina Puschaina have woven bags and hammocks. With support from Colombia’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies and the National Training Service, they now use...

Employment in Focus blog series

The kids are not alright: Policy responses to jobs and social protection for the youth

Young people are facing unprecedented levels of stress and uncertainty, driven by concerns about job and financial security, and access to social protection. ILO experts explore the factors behind these trends and policy measures that can improve...

Meeting of the EU Ministers for Employment and Social Affairs

ILO Director-General calls for fair employment to be at the heart of social justice

At the invitation of the Cyprus EU Council Presidency, the ILO Director-General addressed an informal meeting of the EU Ministers for Employment and Social Affairs and underlined the need to foster social justice and fair employment, which are the...

ILO skills training boosts earthquake recovery in Southern Shan State

Community members complete vocational courses to rebuild livelihoods and support inclusive economic recovery in Myanmar.

Questions and Answers

From papers to people: How employment policies shape lives and jobs

Dorothea Schmidt, Chief, ILO’s Employment Policy, Labour Market and Youth (EMPLAB) branch, explains how well-designed employment policies can turn the promise of decent work into lived reality. She reflects on the role of social dialogue,...

Voices of Action - Child labour

From hazardous work to school: How the Philippines is breaking the child labour cycle

In Bangsamoro's shadow of dump sites, children swap hazardous scavenging for education and family mushroom farms ahead of the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, paving paths to brighter futures. ​

Our impact, their voices

A key provincial leader pushing South Sumatra forward in Indonesia’s just energy transition

A dedicated provincial leader is driving South Sumatra’s just energy transition while advancing Indonesia’s broader commitment to renewable energy.

Kazakhstan ratifies the Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1979 (No. 131)

Kazakhstan becomes the 57th country to ratify this Convention.

Minimum wage

ILO launches new evidence-based minimum wage report to support Caribbean employers

The new evidence-based minimum wage guide offers practical guidance for transparent, data-driven wage-setting across 14 territories, underscoring the need for strong tripartite engagement, reliable labour market data, and predictable review systems...

Questions and Answers

Rethinking AI’s impact on the future of work

AI’s impact goes beyond the quantity of jobs- it’s also about how technology is affecting wages, conditions and new opportunities. Sher Verick answers questions about some overlooked dimensions and what it will take to ensure AI benefits all...

New ILO-GCC joint report

Report reviews the wage protection system in Gulf Cooperation Council countries

Joint ILO-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) analysis highlights the extent of progress made in ensuring timely wage payments.

Strong and inclusive wage systems key to reducing poverty and building resilience in the Pacific

New report urges stronger wage policies, better enforcement and adequate pay to protect vulnerable workers and promote inclusive growth across the Pacific.

International Labour Review Blog

Do Global Value Chains and new technologies improve job quality in Europe?

Drawing on micro-level data from 22 European countries, this blog from the International Labour Review examines how global value chains and digitalisation affect wages and job quality, highlighting their uneven impact across countries, occupations,...

Fair wage and social dialogue

ILO backs trade unions to strengthen capacity on wage policy in Ethiopia

The International Labour Organization (ILO) supports Ethiopian trade unions in strengthening their technical and institutional capacity to engage in wage policy development.

Decent work and food security as pathways to sustainable peace

At Geneva Peace Week, experts from the UN Peacebuilding Fund, ILO, FAO, Interpeace and Sudan’s civil society highlighted how decent work and food security can serve as powerful tools for conflict prevention, social cohesion, and peace.