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Governance and Tripartism working paper series

Literature Review on the Governance of Work

This literature review focuses on the most influential and relevant developments in regulation and governance scholarship. In addition, it also draws on work undertaken in a range of complementary disciplines and areas, including industrial...

Report on the results of the study of the implementation of Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Decree No. 68/2004 concerning the...

The results of the evaluation and survey conducted by the ILO in collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia resulted in several recommendations which become one of the reference materials in order to improve the...

Future of work

Decent Work and Sustainable Development Goals in Viet Nam - Country Profile

The publication analyses the country’s labour market trends through the lenses of international SDG and labour market indicators.

Infographic

What’s new with revised Labour Code?

Here are the highlights of the changes in the revised Labour Code adopted by the National Assembly on 20 November 2019.

Support to the extension of Social Health Protection in South-East Asia

The Luxembourg-funded ILO project “Support to the extension of Social Health Protection in South-East Asia” has for overall goal to help more women and men in Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam access adequate social health protection, under the overall...

Book

The International Labour Organization: 100 years of global social policy

This book is the first comprehensive account of the International Labour Organization’s 100-year history.

Research Department Working Paper n°49

Unemployment insurance schemes around the world: Evidence and policy options

This article conducts a comparative analysis of unemployment insurance schemes in advanced and emerging economies, with the aim of identifying differences in policy approaches across countries and pointing at possible consequences in terms of policy...

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 106

Regulatory options for conflicts of law and jurisdictional issues in the on-demand economy

Provides a global framework for thinking about the on-demand business model and assorted conflicts of law and jurisdictional issues.

Fair recruitment initiative

General principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment and definition of recruitment fees and related costs

This document brings together the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment (“principles and guidelines”) and the definition of recruitment fees and related costs.

Policy brief

Assessing the potential for multi-tiered child benefits in Viet Nam

The policy brief summarizes the potential for a multi-tiered child benefit to help the Government meet both objectives on social insurance and social assistance simultaneously.

Guidelines for the implementation of employment contracts in the export-orientated garment sector

A guideline for the implementation of employment contracts is required so that a balance is found between the need to protect workers and the competitiveness of the garment sector.

Sustaining strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting in relevant EU trading partners (Project fact sheet)

Sustaining strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting in relevant EU trading partners’ is a EU funded project for two years project. The project was started in April 2018 with the aims of supporting provincial...

Research Department Working Paper n°34

Setting out for Digital Social Security

Book

Collective Agreements: Extending Labour Protection

This volume examines the extension of collective agreements and its use as a policy tool to expand the coverage of labour protection, and shore up collective bargaining.

Research Department Working Paper n°32

Mapping and measuring the effectiveness of labour-related disclosure requirements for global supply chains

This study analyses the global rise of disclosure legislations as an approach to governing labour standards in global supply chains.

ILO Convention No. 182 at a glance: An introduction to legally prohibiting hazardous work for children

ILO Convention No. 138 at a glance

Book

Women’s ILO: Transnational networks, global labour standards and gender equity, 1919 to Present

What is the place of women in global labour policies? This book gathers new research on a century of ILO engagement with women’s work.

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 88

Mapping employment dismissal law: a leximetric investigation of EPL stringency and regulatory style