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Gender equality and growth

ILO: Women’s empowerment and skills development are critical to ensure sustained growth in Myanmar’s garment sector

Myanmar’s garment workforce is projected to grow to one million workers by 2020, mostly women. A new ILO report assessing gender gaps in the sector underlines the need to address workplace culture in order to achieve decent work for the thousands of...

Trade union

How immediate upper level unions work in other countries and some observation in Viet Nam

By Dr Chang Hee Lee, senior industrial relations specialist and ILO Viet Nam Director

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...

Collective bargaining

Multi-employer collective bargaining agreement extended to 10 tourism companies

The number of participating firms in Da Nang City is expected to reach 50 in 2019.

United Nations Day celebrated in Qatar

United Nations Day has been celebrated for the first time in Qatar, marking the strong relationship between the UN and the State of Qatar.

Tripartism and social dialogue in Bangladesh

Taking social dialogue to the next level

Tripartism and social dialogue in Bangladesh

Navigating successful trade unions

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.

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...

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.

Collective Bargaining

Mexico ratifies the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)

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.

Women in unions

“Trade unions need to strategize to reach youth, and vulnerable workers”

Amarjeet Kaur, General secretary, All India Trade Union Congress speaks with the ILO on the role of unions in today’s changing times, and what must be done more to strengthen workers’ rights.

Tripartism and social dialogue

Safety and health in Peru’s construction sector - 25 kilos… not more!

Peruvian trade unions and the ILO’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean are supporting an initiative to protect construction workers’ health.

Industrial relations

Viet Nam ready to develop new industrial relations framework for market economy

The framework will help the country address its industrial relations challenges and comply with its labour commitments in free trade deals.

International labour standards

Viet Nam considers ratifying ILO’s convention to boost collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a fundamental right. Effective collective bargaining can reduce wildcat strikes and build harmonious industrial relations.

Towards a more effective industrial relations dispute settlement mechanism

Industrial peace is one of the factors that can contribute to economic growth by enhancing productivity and promoting investment. The ILO supported its tripartite constituents to develop a more effective dispute settlement mechanism that benefits...

The future of work and the significance of effective collective bargaining and negotiations

The Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC) project, funded by German Ministry for Development Cooperation (BMZ) & Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany,...

Opinion

EU-Viet Nam trade deal important to encourage Viet Nam to stay on course of labour reform

ILO Viet Nam Director, Chang-Hee Lee, comments on the role of the EU- Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement to the country’s journey towards democratic governance in labour markets.

ILO-Japan programme

Japanese parliamentary members explore effective ways to support Viet Nam’s labour issues

The delegation aimed to identify decent work challenges faced by Vietnamese workers and find solutions to address them as more and more major Japanese companies are choosing Viet Nam to locate their factories.