All resources: Sweden
Enterprise development
New programme to close digital gap for 15,000 small businesses
The United Nations in the Philippines launched a new joint programme to bridge the digital divide and boost the competitiveness of enterprises through improved connectivity and support from UN agencies, including the ILO and government partners.
Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
Interview with Christian Bengtzelius, Head of Owner Relations and International Affairs at Riksbyggen
“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)....
In Moldova, unearmarked voluntary funding serves as a catalyst for ILO to extend its reach
ILO Regular Budget Supplementary Account (RBSA) has been instrumental in advancing the goals of the Decent Work Country Programme and has also attracted further support from international development partners, thereby amplifying the overall impact...
ILO Working paper 114
Institutional and labour relations regimes promoting decent working conditions for Local and Regional Government (LRG) Workers in Croatia,...
This publication presents a comparative analysis of the Local and Regional Government (LRG) sector workforce in five European countries: Croatia, Germany, Greece, Spain, and Sweden.
SCORE training
Step by step: Albanian textile and footwear factories improve productivity and working conditions
After successfully establishing practices that led to safer and healthier working conditions for about 2,500 workers in fifteen different enterprises, the ILO is now aiming at achieving decent work and more sustainable production in Albanian SMEs.
Informal EPSCO
Promotion of social justice essential for sustainable and equitable recovery, ILO tells EU ministers
Speaking to EU ministers of employment and social affairs, the ILO Director-General underlined the need to put social justice back at the centre of policy-making, using concerted and decisive action.
The assessment of the textile and footwear sector’s regulatory alignment with European Union standards
Publication
A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining
Employment Promotion – Experience sharing between Sweden and Uzbekistan
18-21 April 2023 – Stockholm. Uzbekistan delegation of ILO tripartite constituents and Senate visited Stockholm to exchange knowledge and experience on the best practices and their application by Arbetsförmedlingen (National public employment...
Employment creation
“Jobs for all” - European Union and Sweden pledge five million euros in support of employment of young women and the hard-to-employ in...
The new project “EU4Employment”, introduced to the public on 27 February 2023 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, will be implemented by the ILO with a budget of four million euros from the European Union and one million euros from Sweden.
ILO Director-General discusses bilateral cooperation with the European Commission
During his first official visit to Brussels, the ILO Director-General met the Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, the Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, and the EU Commissioners for Jobs and Social Rights and...
ILO Working Paper 74
Collective bargaining in seven European countries throughout the pandemic
This Working Paper investigates developments in social dialogue and collective bargaining during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries.
Conclusions of the 16th High-level meeting between the International Labour Organization and the European Commission (2022)
ILO-EU Relations
ILO and European Commission reaffirm mutual partnership at 16th High Level meeting
Sweden and the ILO renew their partnership
Women and the mine of the future: Preliminary analysis of ILO mining employment data by sex
This series of infographics presents a baseline analysis of gender-segregated data for 10 countries to provide greater understanding of the gendered employment profile of large-scale mining and its supply chain. It is drawn from household surveys,...
ILO welcomes renewed EU focus on decent work worldwide for a just transition and a sustainable recovery
The European Commission has adopted a Communication on decent work worldwide, which sets out how the EU will act upon the challenges linked to a just green and digital transition and a sustainable recovery from the pandemic.
Sweden’s State Secretary for International Development Cooperation visits projects on women’s economic empowerment in Jordan
Social Summit in Porto
ILO Director-General addresses EU Social Summit in Porto
Europe must seize its opportunity to increase investment in training, social protection, social dialogue and the jobs of the future, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, told EU leaders at their Social Summit in Porto, Portugal.
Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
Liz Green, Executive Vice President, ICMIF
“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....