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Inauguration Ceremony of Secretariat for Promoting the Realization of Work Style Reform

ILO Research paper No. 13

Corporate Social Responsibility in International Trade and Investment Agreements: Implications for States, Business and Workers

This paper assesses the reference to CSR commitments in trade and investment agreements and finds that CSR language is relatively weak in terms of obligation, precision and delegation. Emphasising the potential to use the mechanisms that are...

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 73

Productivity, wages and unions in Japan

Employment Promotion in Disaster Response Project

Employment-focused disaster risk management and reconstruction in Asia and the Pacific: A comparative analysis of recent disasters in...

This paper examines how employment issues have and have not been mainstreamed in disaster risk management and recovery efforts, focusing on four case study countries, i.e., India, Japan, Nepal and the Philippines.

Interim Report of CEART on Allegations - February 2016

Allegation received from the All Japan Teachers and Staff Union (ZENKYO)

Summary

Summary of the World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2016

The World Employment and Social Outlook is the ILO’s flagship report on world of work issues. Exploring the inter-connected nature of macroeconomic policies on the one hand, and employment and social outcomes on the other, it analyses which policy...

The Situation of Non-regular Public Employees in Local Government in Japan: focus on Gender

Non-regular public employees in the local governments are increasing rapidly in Japan. According to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIAC) (2012b), there were 603,582 non-regular public employees as of April 1,...

Presentation on Session 1: Extension of social security in Cambodia for the Tripartite Seminar for Enhancing Social Protection in an...

Mr Cheak Lymeng, National Social Security Fund, Cambodia, delivered the presentation on session 1: Extension of social security in Cambodia for the Tripartite Seminar for Enhancing Social Protection in an Integrated ASEAN Community during 25-26...

Presentation on Session 1: The report of the state of social protection in ASEAN at the dawn of integration for the Tripartite Seminar for...

Ms Celine Peyron Bista, Chief Technical Advisor, ILO/Japan - MAPS Project and Ms Cheng Boon Ong, Consultation on social protection, delivered the presentation on the report of the state of social protection in ASEAN at the dawn of integration for...

Presentation on Session 3: Labour migration in ASEAN, the reality for the Tripartite Seminar for Enhancing Social Protection in an...

Mr Manuel Imson, Senior Programme Officer and Project Coordinator for ASEAN TRIANGLE, delivered the presentation on Session 3 on Labour migration in ASEAN, the reality for the Tripartite Seminar for Enhancing Social Protection in an Integrated ASEAN...

Presentation on Session 2: Measuring social protection progress: Review of the SDGs and other key indicators for the Tripartite Seminar for...

Dr Suhariyanto, Deputy Director for National accounts and statistical analysis, BPS-Statistics Indonesia, delivered the presentation onPresentation on Session 2 on Measuring social protection progress: Review of the SDGs and other key indicators for...

Presentation on ASEAN for the Tripartite Seminar for Enhancing Social Protection in an Integrated ASEAN Community

Ms Mega Irena, Head, Social Welfare, Women, Labour & Migrant Workers Division, the ASEAN Secretariat, delivered the presentation on ASEAN for the Tripartite Seminar for Enhancing Social Protection in an Integrated ASEAN Community on 25 November 2015

Recommendations of the Tripartite seminar for enhancing social protection in an integrated ASEAN community

This is the recommendations of the Tripartite seminar for enhancing social protection in an integrated ASEAN community during 25-26 November 2015

Opening remarks for Tripartite seminar for enhancing social protection in an integrated ASEAN community

This is the opening remarks delivered by Mr Francesco D’Ovidio, Country Director for Indonesia and East Timor, on behalf of Ms Tomoko Nishimoto, ILO Regional Director, Asia and the Pacific on the Tripartite seminar for enhancing social protection in...

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 64

The regulation of non-standard forms of employment in China, Japan and The Republic of Korea

Fukushima nuclear accidents: Information resources

Following a major 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami which struck north-eastern Japan on 11 March 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plants have experienced equipment failures which caused a series of explosions, fires, injuries to the plant...

Japan Earthquake Project

Research on employment and labour measures in the Post-Great East Japan Earthquake recovery process

The International Labour Organization conducted in-depth research on employment, labour and livelihood recovery measures carried out by the government and civil society in Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. This report...

Nurturing life after Japan’s tsunami

11 March 2011. The TV screen was showing live images of the tsunami as it struck Japan’s eastern coast. From what the reporter was saying, I quickly realized that the images were of my mother’s hometown, where I had spent my summer vacations as a...

Japan and the ILO: A partnership for development

324th session of ILO Governing Body

ILO Governing Body elects Misako Kaji as new chairperson

Misako Kaji, Permanent Representative of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva will head the International Labour Organization’s executive body for the period 2015-2016.