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COVID-19: ILO Monitor – 8th edition

ILO: Employment impact of the pandemic worse than expected

Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit, ILO warns on stalled global labour market recovery and significant disparities between advanced and developing economies.

Media Advisory

ILO to release new report on the effects of COVID-19 on labour markets

Employment policy

ILO launches new online database on employment policies and strategies to promote an inclusive job-rich recovery

The online platform will serve as a unique worldwide reference and source of information on national employment policies, and strategies to promote youth employment.

Annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group

ILO: The world needs a global accelerator for jobs and social protection

In a statement to the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, warned of a two-track recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and emphasized the need to increase investments in universal social protection,...

Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

Two-track recovery undermines trust and solidarity

In a statement to the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder said countries must increase investments in social protection, decent work and a just transition.

World Mental Health Day

Better Work Indonesia promotes mental health and gender equality for garment industry

Better Work Indonesia (BWI), a joint programme of ILO and IFC, member of World Bank Group conducts a series of knowledge-sharing sessions to promote mental health and gender equality at its participating garment companies during the pandemic...

COVID-19 recovery and climate action

A more ambitious financing strategy to enable the world to build back more inclusively and sustainably is feasible, says a new ILO paper

Bolder use of the existing international financial architecture could accelerate worldwide COVID-19 recovery and climate action, including in low- and lower-middle-income countries, says a new ILO research paper.

UN General Assembly

UN Secretary-General calls for accelerated action on jobs and social protection

Deeply diverging recoveries threaten to undermine trust and solidarity and make the world more vulnerable to future crises, including climate change. In response the UN and ILO have established a ‘Global Accelerator’ to help ensure global financing...

21st Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour

ILO warns of a recovery with high unemployment and worrying informality in Latin America and the Caribbean

At the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour, the Director-General of the ILO said that it is necessary to move towards a sustainable and resilient inclusive recovery in the face of a pandemic that “has brought the world of work to its...

Trade unions in Dominica, Guyana and Saint Lucia receive ILO funding to boost resilience to crises

Support will seek to strengthen communications, digitalization and education for improved adaptation

Latin America and the Caribbean face an insufficient labour market recovery with a predominance of informal jobs

Around 70 per cent of the jobs created in recent months in a group of Latin American countries are in informal conditions. Meanwhile, unemployment and the decline in labour force participation are persistent. The International Labour Organization...

ILO to release new analysis on "Employment and informality in Latin America and the Caribbean: An insufficient and uneven recovery"

The latest technical note from the Labour Overview in Times of COVID-19 Series will be launched this week to draw attention to the effects of the economic recovery on labour markets and the informal employment situation of the region.

Timor-Leste develops a National Strategy for Social Protection

The government of Timor-Leste, with support from the ILO, continues to strengthen its social protection by developing a National Strategy for Social Protection to reduce poverty and social vulnerability.

Jobs and nature

ILO and IUCN sign an agreement to harness the interdependence between jobs and nature

The Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies aims to make biodiversity an integral part of the agenda to promote decent work and advance social justice.

Registration is now open for the 12th edition of the ILO Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)

The first ever virtual Academy on SSE will take place from 15 to 26 November 2021 in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish

ILO and the UNTFSSE will participate in the OECD event “The Social and Solidarity Economy: From the Margins to the Mainstream”

The event will take place virtually from 13 to 16 September 2021, from 13:00 to 16:00 CEST

Message at the consultation on the Safe and decent work in economic zones research: A capacity-building and training for government,...

By Mr Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the consultation on the Safe and decent work in economic zones research: A capacity-building and training for government, security sector, workers and enterprises, 16 August...

Press release

ILO forecasts slow jobs recovery in ASEAN region

Upward trend in COVID-19 cases and slow vaccine roll out likely to prolong the labour market crisis and hamper recovery.

Informal economy

United Nations supports public-private partnership to promote Covid-19 safe business operations

In a bid to minimize financial stressors on Fijian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the United Nations [UN] is partnering with the Fijian Government, the Fiji Commerce & Employers Federation (FCEF), Fijian Competition & Consumer...

International Youth Day

Youth employment crisis: disarming the pandemic-triggered time bomb

By the start of 2021, the youth unemployment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean had reached 23.8 per cent and nearly three million had left a workforce dominated by informality. There is a risk of a "lockdown generation" the ILO warns on...