All publications: employers organizations

Business resilience

Business Resilience in Retrospect: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Business resilience is essential for sustainable economic prosperity and growth. A company's ability to bounce back from adversity impacts the wider economic picture, shaping growth and employment trajectories. This study delves into the experiences...

ACCEL Africa 2nd Phase

Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa (ACCEL AFRICA) - 2nd phase in brief

The ACCEL Africa Project is entering its second phase with a strong commitment to eradicating child labour in supply chains across Africa. It is continuing to target the root causes of child labour in specific countries and supply chains,...

Digital economy

Policy issues in the digital platform economy: A guide for employers’ organizations in Southeast Asia

This report reviews some of the major legal and regulatory challenges related to platform work and examines how employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) can shape this framework while expanding their organizations to provide more...

Social protection

Social protection systems in ASEAN: A strategy guide for employers

ASEAN Member States have taken steps to expand social protection, especially after the adoption of the 2013 ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection. The pandemic pushed ASEAN governments to reassess and often reaffirm commitments to...

Business resilience

A conceptual framework for building business resilience

The report encompasses a detailed process of building the business resilience (BRI), beginning from identifying the components of business resilience, outlining the challenges of data acquisition, to the application of various methods to synthesize...

Digitalization of Business Organizations

Technical Note: Nicaragua - Sofia - Virtual Assistant

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...

Digitalization of employers and business membership organizations

Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Chile

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitalization of employers’ and business membership organizations in Latin America, identified during the research process carried out by the ILO’s Bureau for Employers’...

Digitalization of employers and business membership organizations

Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Panama

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...

Digitalization of an employers and business membership organization

Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Honduras

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...

Digitalization of an employers and business membership organization

Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Guatemala

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...

Digitalization of an employers and business membership organization

Where Are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Ecuador

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...

Digitalization of employers and business membership organizations

Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Paraguay

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...

Digitalization of employers and business membership organizations

Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Uruguay

This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...

Digitalization of employers and business membership organizations

Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at digital lobbying

This technical note is part of a collection of outstanding experiences in the digitalization of enterprises and business organizations in Latin America, identified during the research process carried out by the ILO’s Bureau for Employers’ Activities...

Digitalization of Business Organizations

Mexico and CCIJ: An integral digital transformation

This case study, prepared by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP), aims to assist Latin American Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) in their journey towards digitalisation, based on information and responses...

Digitalization of employers and business membership organizations

Where do Business Organisations Stand on the Road to Digitalisation? A look at Latin America

This report, prepared by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP), aims to assist Latin American business organizations (EBMOs) in their journey towards digitalisation, based on information and responses provided by the EBMOs themselves,...

Business resilience

Determinants of Productivity Recovery and Business Resilience

This study aims to identify and analyse the main determinants of enterprise resilience and productivity recovery. The report undertakes a literature review and data analysis to provide insights into how businesses can boost their productivity and...

Building effective employer and business membership organizations

Setting a minimum wage: A review of options for Pacific employer and business membership organizations

Minimum wage-setting systems have become an important policy issue for employer and business member organizations (EBMOs) in the Pacific. In recent years, notable shifts have taken place. A few countries have seen significant minimum wage increases...

Sharing Results, Celebrating Impact!

Results Book: ACCEL Africa

The Results Book of the "Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa) project" 1st phase implementation presents a comprehensive account of the project's journey from November 2018 to June 2023.

Building effective employer and business membership organizations

A practical guide to managing small Employer and Business Membership Organizations in the Pacific

This guide is adapted from the ILO’s Managing Small Business Associations -Trainer’s Manual and the ITCILO series of resources for Effective Employer and Business Member Organizations. The material from these resources has been customized into a...