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COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment
COVID-19 responses must be built on human solidarity, ILO tells World Bank/IMF
In submissions to the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank the ILO Director-General has laid out a four-pillar plan of policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis, that are human-centred and built on global solidarity.
Virtual Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
We need a human-centred response to COVID-19 through global solidarity
In a statement to the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the IMF and World Bank, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, outlined the steps that need to be taken to lessen the impact of the crisis on...
COVID-19
COVID-19 Pandemic and Employment Relations Reset High on the Agenda of the Saint-Petersburg International Legal Forum
How to save one’s business and comply with obligations before the workers? What changes to the labour law are now possible and acceptable? How to settle the legal and other aspects of remote work? These and other issues were discussed at a special...
COVID-19: Country policy responses
The world of work and COVID-19: How countries are responding
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll in many countries, the ILO is publishing a digest of the actions taken by its member States and their social partners, to lessen the impact on their economies and labour markets.
COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment
ILO: COVID-19 causes devastating losses in working hours and employment
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a catastrophic effect on working hours and earnings, globally. A new ILO report highlights some of the worst affected sectors and regions, and outlines policies to mitigate the crisis.
COVID-19 pandemic
ILO: COVID-19 eliminates the equivalent of 14 million jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean, and challenges the region to seek measures...
The region records enormous losses in working hours, which is reflected in a drop in employment. The pandemic especially affects sectors that generate a large number of jobs in the region, such as commerce and the service industry.
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
Women health workers: Working relentlessly in hospitals and at home
Women globally make up over 70 per cent of workers in health, including those working in care institutions. They are on the front line of the fight against COVID-19. As a result of the pandemic they are facing a double burden: longer shifts at work...
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
Treat seafarers with “dignity and respect” during COVID-19 crisis
Seafarers, ship owners and governments are urging ILO member States to ensure the flow of essential goods, energy, food and medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: Protecting workers
Keys for effective teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that more people than ever before are teleworking – using information and communications technologies to do their work away from the office. ILO Working Time expert, Jon Messenger, explains how to get the best out of...
International Labour Standards
Convention No 1: A landmark for Workers’ Rights
100 years ago the first International Labour Conference adopted the first International Labour Standard – on working time. As the ILO celebrates this landmark moment, ILO Working Time specialist, Jon Messenger, looks back at the history of the...
Part-Time Work
Sudan ratifies the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175)
Sudan is the 18th member State to have ratified this Convention
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | RWANDA - “The project helped national policies to reduce poverty and create jobs”
An ILO-led programme helped the government and social partners to make sure job creation goes along with economic growth.
Working time
Uruguay ratifies the Night Work Convention, 1990 (No. 171)
World Refugee Day
Syrian and Jordanian women find sweet success in training and employment project
Flexible working hours are among the measures that can help boost employment of Syrian and Jordanian women in the sweets-making industry in Jordan.
Part-Time Work Convention
Guatemala ratifies the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175)
Guatemala becomes the 17th country to have ratified Convention No. 175
“Working anytime, anywhere”
New report highlights opportunities and challenges of expanding telework
New ILO-Eurofound report shows that the use of modern communication technologies facilitates a better overall work-life balance but, at the same time, also blurs the boundaries between work and personal life.
Labour Statistics
ILO and SESRIC signed MoU in Paris to boost cooperation
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Better productivity with flexible working hours
Happy employees for a successful business - Better productivity with flexible working hours – says a national awareness raising campaign launched on 01 December 2015 by Organization of Employers of Macedonia (OEM) with the ILO’s support.
New study sheds light on plight of working street-based children in Lebanon
Study is the first of its kind to comprehensively profile the size and magnitude of street-based child labour in Lebanon
Maternity and paternity at work
Economic crisis lends unexpected support to families in some countries
An ILO report says a surprising side effect of the crisis in some countries was a lift to families, including better benefits for maternity and parental leave.