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COVID-19 business resilience guides for manufacturers in Asia: Communicating with your workers
Factories across Asia are facing severe impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to the urgent needs of these manufacturers across the region, the ILO has developed a series of six action-oriented guides to help factories navigate the COVID-19...
COVID-19 business resilience guides for manufacturers in Asia: Managing your cash flow
Factories across Asia are facing severe impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to the urgent needs of these manufacturers across the region, the ILO has developed a series of six action-oriented guides to help factories navigate the COVID-19...
COVID-19 business resilience guides for manufacturers in Asia: Organizing the factory for safer and more efficient operations
Factories across Asia are facing severe impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to the urgent needs of these manufacturers across the region, the ILO has developed a series of six action-oriented guides to help factories navigate the COVID-19...
COVID-19 business resilience guides for manufacturers in Asia: Reducing costs
Factories across Asia are facing severe impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to the urgent needs of these manufacturers across the region, the ILO has developed a series of six action-oriented guides to help factories navigate the COVID-19...
Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) in the Garment & Leather Manufacturing Sector in Jordan
This report looks at the positioning of the garment and leather sector in the Jordanian economy from a skills and labour market perspective.
Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) in the Chemicals and Cosmetics Manufacturing Sector in Jordan
The report reflects on the positioning of the C&C sector in the Jordanian economy from a skills and labour market perspective.
Factory story
Grievance handling and moving towards sustainable development
Grievance handling systems in garment and apparel factories are among the key factors that may affect employee health and wellbeing, leaving a significant impact on the business revenue and output of the employers. The story from a factory joining...
What next for Asian garment production after COVID-19? The perspectives of industry stakeholders
This report summarizes findings from a qualitative study conducted with a group of industry experts to explore the implications of COVID-19 for production systems and practices in Asia. The results provide an early and tentative picture of industry...
Booklet
Useful information on health insurance, sickness, maternity and employment injury & occupational diseases benefits for factory workers in...
Policy brief
COVID-19 and global supply chains: How the jobs crisis propagates across borders
This brief investigates the international propagation through global supply chains of the demand and supply disruptions caused by the COVID-19 crisis. It provides estimates of the number of jobs in manufacturing supply chains that are at risk as a...
Introduction to guides for garment factories to build resilience during and after COVID-19
The ILO provides a series of six action-oriented guides for garment factories in Asia to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to build business resilience. This fact sheet provides an introduction to the series.
Managing your cash flow
This guide helps factory managers keep track of their cash flow to better navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.
Communicating with your workers
This guide helps factory managers establish and maintain good internal communications for a more responsive and productive factory environment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the...
Going online: Establishing an online presence
This guide helps factory managers establish an online presence in order to promote their factory and to facilitate communication with buyers. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.
Covid-19 resilience
Organizing the factory for safer and more efficient operations
This guide aims to assist factory managers re-organize their factories in order to provide better safety measures and improve their operational efficiency during and after the COVID-19 outbreak. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and...
Finding alternative sources of income
This guide helps factory managers identify new revenue streams to ensure that the factory can survive the COVID-19 pandemic and become more resilient over time. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.
Reducing costs
This guide helps factory managers reduce costs to ease financial liquidity and cashflow pressures on their factory operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.
COVID-19 and the automotive industry
The automotive industry has been hit by a triple whammy: factory closures, supply chain disruption, and a collapse in demand. Just-in-time manufacturing processes have propagated the impact across the globe. Small and medium enterprises are among...
ILO Working paper 3
Digital manufacturing revolutions as political projects and hypes: evidences from the auto sector
The article analyses the evolution of automotive manufacturing technologies and organisations and assesses the impact of “fourth industrial revolution” concepts and policies (in Germany, US and China) in particular for employment and work.
Working paper
Digital manufacturing revolutions as political projects and hypes: evidences from the auto sector (EPUB)
The article analyses the evolution of automotive manufacturing technologies and organisations and assesses the impact of “fourth industrial revolution” concepts and policies (in Germany, US and China) in particular for employment and work.