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COVID-19: Challenges and Impact on the Garment and Textile Industry

The ILO Siraye programme on Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia hosted the first of a planned series of webinar aimed at bringing together representatives from the garment and textile factories and brands to address...

Supporting small and medium enterprises through the COVID-19 crisis

The COVID-19 outbreak has hit small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their workers hard, including in Indonesia. So what do SMEs need and what has worked in previous calamities to help them survive? Here are our top five policy options.

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.

Enterprise development

ILO sign agreement with the Ministry of Emergency Management for implementing SCORE Training

The ILO Office for China and Mongolia (ILO) and the International Cooperation and Rescue Department of Ministry of Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China (MEM) signed an implementation agreement on Sustaining Competitive and...

Activities on Ending Child Labour in Seasonal Agriculture Organized in İstanbul and Şanlıurfa

Within the framework of “An Integrated Model for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Seasonal Agriculture in Hazelnut Harvesting in Turkey Project”* jointly implemented by International Labour Organization and the Ministry of Family,...

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

COVID-19 cruelly highlights inequalities and threatens to deepen them

The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating already existing inequalities – from catching the virus, to staying alive, to coping with its dramatic economic consequences. Policy responses must ensure that support reaches the workers and enterprises who...

SCORE Academy to offer online training to Amazon’s supplier in China during COVID-19 outbreak

SCORE Academy has launched a series of online courses and counseling for Amazon suppliers to reduce the impact of the epidemic and ensure the scheduled implementation of the project.

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Almost 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide as a result of COVID-19, says ILO

An initial assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the global world of work says the effects will be far-reaching, pushing millions of people into unemployment, underemployment and working poverty, and proposes measures for a decisive, co-ordinated...

Gender equality: SCORE Training pushing forward change in SMEs

SCORE Training has been building-in gender equality in small and medium-sized enterprises since it’s inception, and this past year is no exception.

The SCORE Academy launches in China

The ILO and the SCORE Academy have signed an implementation agreement on the SCORE project in Phase III.

Forced and child labour

Forced and child labour in Uzbek cotton fields continues to fall

Systematic and systemic child and forced labour were not used by the Uzbekistan government during the 2019 cotton production cycle, according to a new ILO report.

Our impact, Their voices

Partnership successes in Egypt: Pilot results show enterprise improvements on all fronts

The results of the SCORE Training pilot programme in collaboration with the Egyptian Federation of Industries (FEI) show an average satisfaction rate of 90 per cent and significant productivity gains. Companies have not only shown their willingness...

Child labour

Next steps to end child labour in global supply chains

A major conference takes place this week in the Netherlands that aims to set out the next steps in ending child labour in global supply chains. ILO Director-General Guy Ryder took part in a panel discussion at the conference, which has been...

The focus on productivity: A workers point of view

ILO’s SIRAYE programme on Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization launched its productivity and quality intervention pilot led by the Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) Programme. The intervention was a four...

Better Work

Improved working conditions go hand in hand with business success

The ILO programme has supported hundreds of garment factories to earn significant gains in quality of life for workers and enhance productivity and profitability in the past 10 years.

Our impact, Their voices

First company in the construction sector in Colombia to implement a blind resume strategy through ILO´s SCORE Gender Equality Model (MIG...

Gender equality measures are always welcomed, but even more so in sectors that face areas of opportunities to secure equal treatment, opportunities and participation between women and men. This is the case of the construction sector in Colombia...

ILO Accel Africa project supports the drafting of the Nigeria Alliance 8.7 communication strategy in Lagos

The workshop gathered approximately 40 participants who are Members of the Alliance 8.7 Technical Committee and are members of one of the three identified Priority areas.

ILO launches the Report: “Ending Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains”

The report joins data and expertise from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) , the International Organization for Migration (IOM) , the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organization ...

ILO and Ericsson join forces to enhance labour standards in the Egyptian ICT sector

Ericsson and ILO have officially launched the beginning of the implementation phase of collaboration between the two sides to enhance occupational safety and health and work conditions in Egypt.

Child Labour

Child labour and human trafficking remain important concerns in global supply chains

New estimates of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains are revealed in a report compiled by the ILO, OECD, IOM and UNICEF – members of the Alliance 8.7 partnership on child labour, forced labour, modern slavery...