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World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends for women 2017

Gender gaps in the labour market: Australia

106th International Labour Conference

Employment and decent work for the transition to peace: Interview with Andrea Maksimovic

Andrea Maksimovic, Associate Director of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), explains how workers are addressing the challenges of Employment and decent work for the transition to peace and how can the unions promote and implement the...

Launch of the Employment Generation and Livelihoods through Reconciliation (EGLR) Project in Northern Sri Lanka

The Project on Employment Generation and Livelihoods through Reconciliation funded by the Government of Norway was launched in Vavuniya on the 15th of March 2017

Fair Trade Certification for Red Lady Papaya: Vavuniya North Fruit Growers Cooperative achieves another landmark.

Vavuniya North Fruit Growers Cooperative Union has achieved a major milestone by becoming the First Cooperative in Sri Lanka and probably the first organization in South Asia to be Fair Trade Certified for Red Lady papaya. The certification process...

The ILO together with EFC- supported flood relief scheme reflects credible sustainability

The Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) in a bid to reconstruct the heavily damaged homes of the employees of their member corporates in the heavy floods which hit the Western Province early this year collaborated with the International Labour...

Policy summaries on youth employment in Asia-Pacific

Youth employment policy summaries for 13 countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Youth employment policy summary - Australia

Youth employment policy summary for Australia.

Employment services starts with 18 skilled workers securing jobs in Australia

The recently established National Career Counselling & Employment Center (NCCEC) within the TVET section of the Kiribati Ministry of Labour & Human Resource Development has already facilitated the departure of 18 skilled workers for the hospitality...

SPIAC-B Social Protection Gateway IPCUNDP - Australia

The glass industry: recent trends and changes in working conditions and employment relations

At its 317th Session in March 2013, the ILO Governing Body instructed the Office to conduct a research study on technological progress in the glass industry and its impact on employment structure in the industry.

Integrating core work skills into TVET systems: Six country case studies

This report assesses the extent to which six diverse countries have embedded core skills for employability in their TVET and skills systems: Australia; Chile; India; Jamaica; Malawi; and the Philippines. These six case studies have demonstrated that...

Indigenous Peoples in the World of Work in Asia and the Pacific: A Status Report

Concerns for indigenous peoples’ rights and well-being are an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which seeks to tackle poverty and inequality by empowering groups experiencing socioeconomic vulnerability. This report...

Demographic change and private sector disability management in Australia, Canada, China and Switzerland - A comparative study:...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) sees disability management (DM) as crucial to supporting workers whose employment is threatened by illness or accident and bringing people back to work. However, despite the widespread adoption of DM,...

An assessment of the Australian financial services sector

This assessment report is intended to provide a rapid overview of the financial services sector in Australia and to stimulate discussions at the Tripartite Workshop to Promote Social Dialogue on Financial Services Reforms in Selected Asia and...

Promoting decent work for homeworkers in Indonesia: Homeworkers are workers!

Home work is not a new phenomenon in Indonesia and although national statistics on the prevalence of home work do not exist, a number of focused studies in East Java reveal that significant numbers of women and men are engaged in this type of work....

ILO continues farmer empowerment through economic development

Handing Over of the Cooperative Complex to Mulankavil Farmers’ Cooperative Society, Killinochchi District.

INWORK Policy Brief No. 7

The Diversity of "Marginal" Part-Time Employment

Travel Smart - Work Smart: Pre-departure manual for Nauru seasonal workers in Australia

This Pre-departure handbook for Seasonal Workers provides workers that have been selected to take part in the seasonal worker programme with key information about: - Budgeting and Saving - Legal rights and obligations - Staying healthy and safe

“I don’t want to be a labourer forever. I want to be a boss”

Restiana, 42 years old, is a leader of a homeworkers’ group in Mojokerto, East Java Province of Indonesia, with a strong determination to improve the lives of women homeworkers like her.

"I am ready to take action"

After learning the experiences of women homeworkers in India, Sri, a leader of a homeworkers’ group in Mojokerto, East Java Province of Indonesia, is more confident to manage the group and she is ready to take actions.