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Living Wage Programme - LWP
ILO supports Ecuador in reviewing sectoral minimum wages and updating occupational structures
Following a technical mission to Quito, the ILO will work with the Ministry of Labour and Human Development and the social partners over six months to build the evidence base for a review of the sectoral minimum wage system.
Living Wage Programme - LWP
Lesotho's wage board builds a common foundation for evidence-based minimum wage setting with ILO's support
Members of Lesotho's Wages and Conditions of Employment Board completed an ILO induction training on minimum wage determination, drawing on international labour standards and on Ghana's experience of tripartite wage negotiation.
Living Wage Programme
The ILO signs first public-private partnership agreements to advance inclusive wage-setting processes
Three landmark agreements concluded by the ILO with the Responsible Business Alliance, Unilever, and amfori mark a new phase in global efforts to support evidence-based wage-setting processes in ILO Member States in line with International Labour...
Decent work in coffee
ILO takes decent work push across Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands
The ILO is expanding its decent work push across Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands, equipping stakeholders in Sidama and South Ethiopia with practical knowledge on labour law, working conditions, wages, productivity and social dialogue. Following...
Sri Lanka strengthens wage-setting institutions with International Labour Organization support
Workshop brings together government, employers and workers to strengthen evidence-based wage-setting institutions and identify priorities for future action.
Living Wage Programme - LWP
With ILO technical assistance, Seychelles launches a national consultation on living wage estimation
With ILO support, the Government of Seychelles has taken an important step towards developing an evidence-based living wage by launching the country's first national consultation workshop on living wage estimation.
Training course
ITCILO launches summer school on social dialogue and living wages
Organised with the support of the French Ministry of Labour and Solidarity, the course will examine how tripartite social dialogue and collective bargaining can help turn living wage principles into practice.
Fair wages in agriculture
ILO and partners advance standardized wage framework for Ethiopia’s horticulture sector
The ILO, the Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA), and tripartite partners have taken a key step toward establishing a standardized wage framework for Ethiopia’s horticulture sector, following the validation of an assessment...
Minimum wage
ILO welcomes Telangana’s first comprehensive minimum wage fixation since state formation
Wage increase expected to benefit more than 9.2 million workers and strengthen evidence-based wage setting in India’s youngest state.
Key actors from Colombia’s main agricultural supply chains conclude diploma programme on living wages and incomes
Representatives of workers’ organisations, companies from the coffee, banana and palm oil sectors, and public institutions participated in RURALIA, an ILO programme aimed at strengthening technical capacities and promoting social dialogue on living...
Fair wage and social dialogue
ILO backs trade unions to strengthen capacity on wage policy in Ethiopia
The International Labour Organization (ILO) supports Ethiopian trade unions in strengthening their technical and institutional capacity to engage in wage policy development.
Global Coalition for Social Justice
Asia-Pacific advances agenda for living wages
Regional dialogue strengthens commitment to inclusive wage-setting aligned with ILO principles.
OpEd
Shaping the living wage agenda: Asia-Pacific’s call to action
OpEd by Kaori Nakamura-Osaka, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific.
ACCEL Egypt
ILO study paves way for revising wages of Egypt’s jasmine pickers
In social dialogue sessions with tripartite stakeholders, a recent ILO-led income assessment laid the foundation for fairer wages for jasmine pickers, to support families and reduce child labour.
First ever ILO programme on living wages launched by heads of ILO, ITUC and IOE
The programme will estimate and operationalize living wages for the first time since the establishment of the ILO in 1919.
350th Session of the ILO Governing Body
ILO Governing Body closes with decisions on living wages, strengthening social justice
Living wages, the challenges and opportunities of digitization, and progress towards a new social contract, were among the wide range of world-of-work topics discussed by the ILO’s Governing Body at its 350th session.
Wage policies
ILO reaches agreement on the issue of living wages
A decision by the ILO’s Governing Body opens the way for new work by the ILO on estimating and operationalizing living wages, and on engaging with living wage initiatives.