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World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025
Transforming Indonesia’s workplace health and safety through AI innovation
The fourth ILO artificial intelligence (AI) and the world of work forum aims to explore how AI and digitalization reshaping occupational safety and health in workplaces worldwide.
Safety + Health for All
Cambodia embraces AI and digitalization for safer and healthier workplaces
Cambodia observed the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, reaffirming its commitment to creating safer, healthier workplaces in the digital age.
AI and Work
Digital transformation is pivotal to achieving the goal of universal social protection
This article explores how digital technologies, including AI, are enhancing the delivery and inclusiveness of social protection systems – while also highlighting the risks, governance challenges, and equity considerations they raise. Drawing on...
Youth employment
Kenyan Youth Harness AI to Tackle Unemployment
A youth-driven AI hackathon in Nakuru, Kenya, supported by the International Labour Organization, empowered young innovators to design tech-driven solutions to unemployment, ranging from digital farming advice to inclusive online learning platforms.
BRICS Brazil
The ILO calls on BRICS to strengthen efforts on social justice as groundbreaking LEMM declaration on AI and Just Transition is adopted
BRICS Labour Ministers adopted their Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting Declaration during their annual meeting in Brazil.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025
Indonesia welcomes the latest ILO report on the transformation of AI and digitalization to occupational safety and health
Indonesia values the latest ILO report on AI and digitalization, recognizing it as a crucial opportunity to align the country’s inspection and preventive measures with the changing dynamics of the modern workplace.
Technology with purpose: a young man supporting his mother’s business and shaping his life project through SENATIC and the ILO
At just 17 years of age, Rafael Alfonso Meza Guerra discovered in technology a way to reconnect with his past, support his mother, and build a future filled with purpose thanks to his training under the SENATIC project an alliance between the...
AI and digitalization are transforming safety and health at work
A new ILO report unveils opportunities and risks ahead of World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
Press Release
Brasília Hosts the 4th BRICS Employment Working Group Meeting Focused on Artificial Intelligence and Just Transition
By focusing on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Just Transition, the 4th BRICS Employment Working Group meeting in Brasília convened to ensure a fair, inclusive, and sustainable future of work in BRICS member states through South-South and...
Investments in reskilling needed to support workers and tackle skills shortages
At the European Employment and Social Rights Forum, Celeste Drake, ILO Deputy Director-General, discussed a human-centred skilling agenda to navigate the threats and opportunities brought by rapid digital transformation.
Digitalization
Tripartite dialogue in Kazakhstan explores the impact of emerging technologies on decent work
ILO staff from across the subregion, Regional Office, the International Training Centre of the ILO and tripartite constituents exchange views on digital transformation, skills development and policy responses.
ILO Director-General calls for placing decent work at the heart of automation and AI adoption
ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, highlighted the likely positive impact of AI on job creation while cautioning against potential challenges in the labour market.
ILO and EESC join forces to shape a fair and inclusive AI-driven future at high-level conference
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the world of work at an unprecedented pace, bringing both opportunities and challenges for workers, businesses and policymakers.
AI and Work
AI provides innovative ways to improve compliance with labour laws
AI is making labour inspections smarter and more effective. MIRA, a tool developed for Albania’s Labour Inspectorate with ILO support, helps inspectors spot workplace violations faster by using machine learning to analyze risks and predict problems....
Enterprise development
New programme to close digital gap for 15,000 small businesses
The United Nations in the Philippines launched a new joint programme to bridge the digital divide and boost the competitiveness of enterprises through improved connectivity and support from UN agencies, including the ILO and government partners.
How reskilling for AI could unlock new and better jobs
Education and reskilling are key if we are to ensure that artificial intelligence is beneficial to workers. This is according to experts who took part in a discussion moderated by the ILO as part of the AI For Good series.
AI and Work
The Artificial Intelligence illusion: How invisible workers fuel the "automated" economy
While AI is celebrated as a driver of automation, its success hinges on an invisible workforce performing low-paid, precarious tasks under challenging conditions. This article unpacks the hidden realities of AI's "human-in-the-loop" model and its...
AI and the world of work
Bringing decent work at the heart of productive and smart agriculture with artificial intelligence in Indonesia
The third ILO Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the world of work forum aims to explore how AI can improve farming productivity and efficiency for food security and decent work.
New ILO-backed AI tool to support Colombia's coffee producers
A new AI chatbot will provide personalized advice to help improve working conditions and competitiveness for Colombia's coffee producers.
AI and Work
Minimizing the negative effects of AI-induced technological unemployment
As AI reshapes the job landscape, fears of widespread unemployment clash with optimism for productivity gains. This blog examines the nuanced reality and the need for proactive policies to support affected workers.