All news: care economy

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...

Unpaid care work and motherhood employment penalty widen gender gaps

Unpaid care work is the main reason why women are outside the labour force, the Director of ILO-Brussels has said at an exchange on the EU Gender Equality Strategy with EU Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli, organized by FEPS and Friedrich Ebert...

The Future of Work - Towards a progressive agenda for all

Heinz Koller, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, participated in the opening panel discussion during a conference on the Future of Work organized by the European Policy Centre (EPC).

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

Guy Ryder attends G20 meeting in Japan

The Director-General of the International Labour Organization heads to a meeting of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers in Japan, focused on the future of work.

Sharing research findings on the potential of cooperatives in promoting universal health coverage

On June 20, 2019 the ILO co-organized a meeting on the “Cooperatives for Health” initiative at the Biotech Campus in Geneva.

The macroeconomic implications of population ageing

The untapped potential of health cooperatives

The role of the cooperative movement in general and health co-operatives in particular, both in tackling the challenge of decent employment worldwide and in providing health services for the underprivileged in one of the key topics discussed in this...

Informal EPSCO meeting focusses on boosting women’s labour market participation

At the Informal Meeting of the EU Ministers of Employment and Social Policy (EPSCO), Heinz Koller, ILO Assistant Director-General, described the gender gaps in the labour market.

Ensuring decent work in the health sector

Health workers face important decent work deficits. During a Workshop organized by the European Commission, the ILO explained how this affects the quality of care, and how decision makers can ensure decent work in the health sector.

G20 Education and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

Lower the barriers facing women in labour market

In remarks to G20 Education and Employment Ministers in Argentina, Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization, outlined what’s needed to achieve gender equality in the changing world of work.

Our impact, their voices

How a new law in Uruguay boosted care services while breaking gender stereotypes

Its innovative care system is cited as a model for the future of care, in the ILO’s latest report on the care economy.

Care economy

ILO calls for urgent action to prevent looming global care crisis

New ILO report highlights inadequate policy responses to the rising demand and quantifies the extent of the care burden on women.

ILO calls for urgent action to prevent looming global care crisis

In many regions, especially Africa, there are clear deficits in the care policies implemented. New ILO report highlights inadequate policy responses to the rising demand and quantifies the extent of the care burden on women.

Care economy

ILO: Women do 4 times more unpaid care work than men in Asia and the Pacific

New ILO report highlights inadequate policy responses to the rising demand for care and quantifies the extent of the care burden on women. ILO calls for urgent action to prevent looming global care crisis.

Media advisory

ILO to launch new report addressing the looming global care crisis

ILO hosts partners meeting on cooperative responses to advancing public health

ILO hosts partners meeting to discuss the next steps on research exploring the potential of cooperatives to advance public health in Cameroon and Kenya.

Discussing next steps toward advancing universal health coverage through cooperatives

During the Geneva Health Forum in April 2018, the research findings on the potential of cooperatives in advancing universal health coverage were presented to discuss next steps with a range of stakeholders.

A step taken toward a common social cooperative framework in Turkey

ILO representative joined a conference toward creating a common legal and institutional framework for emerging social cooperatives in Turkey.

Domestic workers in Trinidad and Tobago moving toward enhancing sustainability of their cooperative

The ILO partnered with the Service Workers Centre Cooperative Society (SWCC) in Trinidad and Tobago to organize a workshop to discuss concrete steps toward enhancing the sustainability of the cooperative.

Exploring the potential of cooperatives in advancing universal health coverage