All news: livelihoods + income generating activities + remuneration + minimum wage + low wages + incomes policy + income

Financial Crisis and Wage Policy: Interview with Pierre Laliberté

Opening remarks at the Technical Workshop on the Two-Tiered Wage System

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Traders Hotel, Manila, Philippines

Global Wage Report 2010/11

ILO says economic crisis cut global wage growth by half

The financial and economic crisis has cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009, says a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO).

Asian wage growth remains positive despite economic crisis - But country-level picture mixed, concern about growing inequality, “flying”...

The worldwide financial and economic crisis cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009, however in Asia wage growth slowed but remained positive.

ILO to launch new Global Report on Wage Trends during the crisis

The International Labour Office (ILO) is to launch the second edition of its Global Wage Report which provides a global analysis of wage trends during the crisis using the latest world, regional and country-level estimates.

Wages in crisis and in recovery

ILO to launch new Global Report on Wage Trends during the crisis

BANGKOK (ILO News) – The ILO is to launch the second edition of its Global Wage Report which provides a global analysis of wage trends during the crisis using the latest world, regional and country-level estimates.

Media Advisory

ILO to launch new Global Report on Wage Trends during the crisis

The International Labour Office (ILO) will launch the second edition of its Global Wage Report which provides a global analysis of wage trends during the crisis using the latest world, regional and country-level estimates.

Brazil: The minimum wage as a response to the crisis

Argentina: Experience in programmes for income protection and employability improvement

Minimum-wage setting in times of crisis

Pakistan’s devastating floods – rebuilding lives and livelihoods

By Saifullah Chaudhry, Senior Programme Officer, ILO Country Office for Pakistan. (Peshawar, Pakistan) Sher Hassan watched helplessly through the driving rain as flood water approached his house. Horrified and panicking, and with little time to...

ILO’s Crisis Response in Pakistan: 2005-2011

Tajik leader orders increase in monthly wages, pensions, scholarships

On 6 September Tajik president's website published a decree by the president of Tajikistan on measures aimed at strengthening the level of population's social security and increasing current allowances of public servants, workers of budgetary...

Global Wage Report

ILO says economic crisis eroding real wages for second year running

Global growth in real wages slowed dramatically in 2008 as a result of the economic crisis and is expected to drop even further this year despite signs of a possible economic recovery, the International Labour Organization said. “The continued...

ILO says economic crisis eroding real wages for second year running

Global growth in real wages slowed dramatically in 2008 as a result of the economic crisis and is expected to drop even further this year despite signs of a possible economic recovery, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said today.

Paskalina Baru: Building local communities in Papua

By Gita F. Lingga, Communications-Officer of ILO-Jakarta. (Manokwari, West Papua): This is a story of Paskalina Baru, Programme Facilitator, in West Papua. She has broken the traditional barrier, becoming the first female facilitator for the ILO's...

Absallom Retto: Investing for the future

By Gita F. Lingga, Communications-Officer of ILO-Jakarta. (Jayapura, Papua): Most indigenous peoples are dependent on their access to lands, territories and natural resources, particularly where they still engage in traditional livelihood...

What’s ahead for wages in Asia Pacific?

Feature story on the new ILO global report on wages and the situation in Asia and the Pacific.

Global Wage Report 2008/09

ILO launches new report on global wages, including impact of financial crisis

The International Labour Office (ILO) is to launch a new study, entitled "Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence" on Tuesday 25 November that examines major trends in wages worldwide over the...