All resources: Kosovo
Meet the Specialists: Iulia Drumea, Employers' organizations
Iulia Drumea, Employers' Organizations Specialist explains how she supports ILO work with Employers organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. Employers organizations work to create a business-friendly environment for their members. The ILO...
Policy innovations responding to the pandemic
Three essential questions to Mihail Arandarenko, Professor at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics
Welcome to our first issue of short interviews with important researchers and practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe on burning questions concerning labour and social policies. The interviewee is Mihail Arandarenko, a leading researcher on...
Meet the Specialists: Magnus Berge, Workers organizations
Magnus Berge, Senior Specialist for Workers' Organizations explains how he supports ILO work with Trade Unions in Central and Eastern Europe. He promotes Trade Unions so that they can work more effectively to improve working conditions of workers...
Meet the Specialists: Daniela Zampini, Employment creation
Daniela Zampini, the Employment Specialist of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe explains what she does to create more and better jobs, how she works with governments, employers, workers, civil society organizations or municipalities, and...
Labour standards
Kosovo*: Assessing gaps and identifying priority actions in safety and health at work
Kosovo has been accelerating its effort to develop its occupational safety and health (OSH) legislation and labour inspectorate that are in line with international and European labour standards. As a systematic approach towards achieving safe and...
Occupational Safety and Health Profile. Promoting decent work through strengthening occupational safety and health management and social...
The profile provides an overview and the most up-to-date information on the current Occupational Safety and Health situation, assesses gaps in the OSH system and identifies priority areas for action.
International Training Centre of the ILO
New challenges for TVET and skills development - what do you want to learn today?
The importance of learning new skills has never been as evident as in the last year. Almost overnight, all of the global workforce had to admit they faced challenges with their digital skills. We had to switch to new ways of managing work and doing...
Lifelong learning
Why Trade Unions should act on Skills Development – and how?
To build a ‘better normal’ in the post-COVID-19 world of work, skills development and lifelong learning need to be part of economic transformation. This responsibility should not reside with governments and companies alone. Trade Unions have an...
Measurement, awareness raising, and policy engagement project (MAP16) in Kosovo
Research Brief
Protecting the life and health of workers during the COVID 19 pandemic: Overview of national legislative and policy responses
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the cardinal importance of protecting health and safety in the workplace. ILO Member States are responding, through legislative and policy measures in the world of work, to the occupational health and safety...
Analysis of costs for managing cases of child labour in Kosovo
This report assesses the unit cost for handling cases of child labour and analyses the source of funding of providers that deliver social services to children in need
COVID-19 and the World of Work
ILO forecasts Western Balkan economies will lose 11.6 per cent hours worked in Q2 due to pandemic
ILO global estimates show that the COVID-19 crisis is causing an unprecedented reduction in economic activity and working time. The ILO estimates for quarter 2 indicate that the Western Balkans will lose 11.6 per cent of hours worked due to the...
Support for workers, businesses and policy makers in the Western Balkans
ILO and EBRD joining forces in face of coronavirus pandemic
The ILO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are joining forces to respond to the coronavirus crisis in the Western Balkans by advising national policy action to support workers and enterprises.
A network and online platform of labour law
Introducing CEELex, the labour legislation database for Central and Eastern Europe
The ILO recently launched CEELex which is the only searchable, English-language online database offering information on the national labour laws in Central and Eastern Europe. Established in 2015 to respond to an increasing demand of policy makers...
Social dialogue and the Future of Work
Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles in a changing world of work
A new report by the ILO in cooperation with the European Commission looks at how the social partners in European countries are adapting to sweeping changes in the world of work.
Social dialogue and the Future of Work
Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work
WESO Report 2020
What does the new WORLD EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL OUTLOOK: TRENDS 2020 report say about Central and Eastern Europe?
COVID-19 response
COVID-19 and the world of work: What are the responses of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe?
Central and Eastern Europe managed the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic (spring 2020) relatively well, but the region was heavily hit by the second and third wave in the fall/winter of 2020/21. The lockdowns and the global economic recession led...
Policy advice
Is youth employment improving in the Western Balkans? 5 key trends to guide decision-makers in 2020
As the year slowly draws to a close, it also invites a pause for reflection to take stock and look ahead. With electoral tests facing several governments in the Western Balkans in 2020 (North Macedonia and Serbia being cases in point), many policy...
Economic and Social Affairs Platform
Scaling up social dialogue in the Western Balkans
The Economic and Social Councils of the Western Balkans, the EU Commission, the Regional Cooperation Council and the ILO met at a high-level meeting to assess the progress made and the challenges ahead in efficient tripartite social dialogue in the...