All news: care economy

Domestic workers in Trinidad and Tobago develop a business plan for their cooperative

On May 12 to 13, the ILO organised a workshop with domestic workers and their union in Trinidad and Tobago to develop a business plan for their cooperative. The workshop used the C-BED methodology, a low cost, action-based and participatory group...

Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators

Italian social cooperatives working together for the benefit of the communities

"Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. In this issue ILO interviewed Ms Vittoria...

Formalizing informal employment of domestic workers through cooperatives in Trinidad & Tobago

A First Step Toward Strengthening Domestic Workers’ Cooperatives in Trinidad and Tobago

Maternity Protection

Peru ratifies the Maternity Protection Convention (No. 183)

Cooperatives

Cooperatives moving into the care economy

An interview with Lenore Matthew from the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit (COOP) and the Gender, Equality and Diversity Branch (GED), who presented new research showing how cooperatives are increasingly providing care for the elderly, people with...

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

ILO gathers regional and international stakeholders to explore establishing migrant domestic worker cooperatives in the Middle East

Domestic worker cooperatives have been set up in many places around the world, but they do not exist in any of the Arab States. A recent study launched by the ILO looks into the cases of Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait, to see if the region is ready for...

ILO study

Maternity protection: Good for workers, good for small businesses

Maternity protection and work-family measures can generate positive outcomes for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), says ILO Specialist Laura Addati.