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COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

ILO: More than one in six young people out of work due to COVID-19

The ILO’s latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 exposes the devastating and disproportionate effect on young workers, and analyses measures being taken to create a safe return to work environment.

Online training on key responsible business tool available in Chinese

Chinese speakers gain access to important training on the MNE Declaration

Subregional Webinar “Social Protection Response to impact of COVID -19 crisis”

On 22 May the ILO DWT/CO Moscow held a Subregional Webinar “Social Protection Response to impact of COVID -19 crisis” for the ILO constituents and stakeholders. It was the first webinar in a series of webinars devoted to social protection response...

Prioritizing Security and Health Policies at Work is Necessary for the Post COVID-19 Reactivation of Production and Employment to be Safe...

ECLAC and the ILO presented a new joint publication in which they analyze labour challenges in the wake of the pandemic. The organizations indicate that the crisis will likely cause 11.5 million more people to be unemployed in Latin America and the...

COVID-19 and the World of Work

ILO forecasts Western Balkan economies will lose 11.6 per cent hours worked in Q2 due to pandemic

ILO global estimates show that the COVID-19 crisis is causing an unprecedented reduction in economic activity and working time. The ILO estimates for quarter 2 indicate that the Western Balkans will lose 11.6 per cent of hours worked due to the...

ILO, SSB and Rakuten Viber collaborate to raise awareness on COVID-19 preventive measures through innovative Viber stickers

On Friday, 15 May 2020, Viber users in Myanmar will be able to download a COVID-19 prevention sticker pack called ‘Let’s overcome this together!’

Q&A

ILO support for employers during COVID-19 crisis

The COVID-19 crisis has put extraordinary pressure on employers and private sector businesses, to survive and continue to provide decent work. Deborah France Massin, Director of the ILO’s Bureau for Employers’ Activities, explains how they have been...

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Indonesian enterprises barely survive, jobs at risk

Indonesian enterprises and jobs are impacted severely by the COVID-19 outbreak, a recent ILO enterprise survey reveals. Survival of enterprises and saving jobs are a race against time, calling for urgent actions by the government and social partners.

COVID-19 and gender equality

COVID-19: G7 nations need to get gender equality right for a better future for women at work

Fighting deep-rooted gender inequality must be part of countries’ responses to the crisis, says high-level meeting on the role of women in the post-COVID future.

COVID-19: Social protection coverage

Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future crises, ILO says

Strengthened and comprehensive social protection systems will lessen the impact of crises such as COVID-19.

Armenia: G20TS Project’s 3rd National Steering Committee Meeting

COVID-19 pandemic

ILO: COVID-19 eliminates the equivalent of 1.5 million jobs in the Caribbean

The region records significant losses in working hours, marked by a severe deterioration in the second quarter of 2020 from the first quarter of the same year

Media advisory

ILO examines how lack of social protection threatens COVID-19 recovery in developing countries

ILO Voices | Social protection

How to finance social protection in the age of COVID-19

It’s possible for developing countries to finance social protection for all their citizens, both in times of crisis and beyond, says development economist Jayati Ghosh.

COVID-19 pandemic

Media Advisory: Third ILO virtual roundtable on COVID-19 to discuss possible mitigation and building back better measures for Caribbean...

The virtual roundtable will seek to advance regional dialogue on how Caribbean Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and the organizations that support them can generate opportunities and ensure the devastating effects of the crisis are not...

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Supporting the survival of Indonesian MSMEs with business continuity plan

The COVID-19 outbreak has hit micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and their workers the harded, including in Indonesia. The ILO in collaboration with SYIB Associations provide an online training programme on business continuity plan to help...

Rapid costing tool for COVID-19 response – a webinar for Kyrgyzstan

On 08 May, 2020, the second webinar entitled Rapid costing tool for COVID-19 response, was held in the framework of a series of webinars for technical experts of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MLSD) and the Social Fund of the Kyrgyz...

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Contagion or starvation, the dilemma facing informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lockdown measures will worsen poverty and vulnerabilities among the world’s two billion informal economy workers, says the International Labour Organization.

COVID-19

ILO, Armenian Government Discuss Measures to Address COVID-19 Pandemic

On May 5, an online discussion was conducted between the ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Armenia to discuss ILO-Armenia cooperation in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Helping the “double casualties” of COVID-19

The spread of COVID-19 in fragile states riven by conflict and political insecurity, is turning millions of vulnerable people into double casualties of the pandemic.