All publications: employers organizations

Conflict

The role of business in South Africa's transition to democracy

In a climate where the role of business can be perceived with some scepticism, the story of how some key individuals and businesses intervened at critical moments in the South Africa's transition to democracy is often overlooked. In 2019 the ILO and...

Collecting and using wage and productivity data: A guide for Pacific employer and business membership organizations

This guide, produced by the Bureau for Employers’ Activities, examines the prospects for collecting and effectively using data on wages and productivity. It reviews the definitions of these concepts and examines case studies from other employer and...

Building effective employer and business membership organizations

Onboarding handbook for board members of small employer and business membership organizations

This handbook aims to assist small EBMOs to transition towards more structured and formal onboarding processes for new members of the board or executive committee. Designed for adaptation to individual EBMO structures and intended to become a living...

Highlights

Overview of ‘Employer and business membership organizations: Leading enterprises in times of the COVID-19 crisis’

Employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) across the globe have been at the forefront of helping the businesses they represent to weather the COVID 19 crisis. EBMOs around the world have stepped up to deliver crucial services and...

Leading business in times of COVID crisis

Analysis of the activities of employer and business membership organizations in the COVID-19 pandemic and what comes next

Employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) across the globe have been at the forefront of helping the businesses they represent to weather the COVID 19 crisis. EBMOs around the world have stepped up to deliver crucial services and...

Global Deal for Decent Work & Inclusive Growth - Thematic Brief

Social Dialogue for the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy

Social dialogue has a vital role to play in supporting the transition from the informal to the formal economy. Drawing on case studies from around the world, this Global Deal thematic brief illustrates how social dialogue, involving governments and...

Malaysia Decent Work Country Programme

Promoting decent work for sustainable development

The Malaysia Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) 2019–20 provides a framework for the first of two phases of structured cooperation between the ILO, the Government of Malaysia, the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) and the Malaysian Trades Union...

COVID-19

A global survey of enterprises: Managing the business disruptions of COVID-19

This report provides an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on enterprises by analysing the results of a global survey carried out during the second quarter of 2020 with over 4,500 enterprises in 45 countries. The report offers the outlook of...

PRODUCTIVITY

Driving up Productivity: A Guide for Employer and Business Membership Organizations

This Guide produced by the Bureaux for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) of the ILO provides practical guidance for Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) to help them design and implement specific services to support their members to...

PRODUCTIVITY

Driving up Productivity: A quick overview of the Guide for Employers and Business-membership Organizations

This Guide produced by the Bureaux for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) of the ILO provides practical guidance for Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) to help them design and implement specific services to support their members to...

COVID- 19

A quick reference guide to common COVID-19 policy responses

This reference guide provides a menu of common policy measures implemented by governments from different parts of the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on policy measures affecting business directly or indirectly. It assists...

Women in business and management

Improving gender diversity in company boards (voluntary targets vs quotas)

This brief provides an analysis on how voluntary targets and quotas have been used by countries to advance gender diversity in company boards.

Women in business and management

Improving gender diversity in company boards (voluntary targets vs quotas)

This brief provides an analysis on how voluntary targets and quotas have been used by countries to advance gender diversity in company boards

The role of employers in skills development systems

COVID- 19

Enterprise survey tool: Assessing training needs resulting from COVID-19

This enterprise survey template is made available to employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) so that they can assess the training and development needs their members require for staff. The survey will enable EBMOs to adapt their own...

Brief

Employers and workers negotiating measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, protect livelihoods and support recovery: A review of practice

COVID- 19

A global survey of employer and business membership organizations: Inside impacts and responses to COVID-19

In a joint effort to understand the real demands and challenges EBMOs are facing, the International Labour Organization – Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ILO-ACT/EMP) and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) conducted a global...

TRAINING

Guide on Training Methodology for EBMOs

The Guide on Training Methodology for EBMOs is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Programme for Employers’ Activities of the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO ACTEMP) and the Dutch...

A safe and healthy return to work during the COVID-19 pandemic

This guidance note aims to assist governments and employers’ and workers’ organizations in developing national policy guidance for a phased and safe return to work, and provide guidelines for workplace-level risk assessments and implementation...

COVID- 19

An employers’ guide on working from home in response to the outbreak of COVID-19

This guide has been developed by the International Labour Organization Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ILO-ACT/EMP) to assist EBMOs to provide practical guidance to member companies that have implemented “working from home” protocols for their...