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Garment factory managers find significant benefits from improved social dialogue in the workplace

In order to improve compliance with labour standards and promote competitiveness in global supply chains, the ILO-Better Work Indonesia Programme has been supporting many garment enterprises in Indonesia in implementing the ILO core international...

Australia and ILO announce new programme of training support to Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment (SEPFOPE) of...

Australian Ambassador to Timor-Leste Miles Armitage, and Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment Policy, Ilidio Ximenes, today (16/7) formally launched a new program of support to the skills and training sector.

Australia: Overview of progress towards decent work. Updated June 2013

Partnership

ILO and BDA ink partnership to support peace building in Mindanao

The International Labour Organization and the Bangsamoro Development Agency today signed an agreement that will contribute to peace building efforts through local economic development, decent work and sustainable livelihoods in Mindanao.

Partnership

Australian Aid and ILO support sustainable livelihoods in the Philippines' worst typhoon-hit areas

Almost five months after typhoon Pablo (Bopha) hit the province of Davao Oriental in eastern Mindanao, Philippines, disaster-affected families in the municipalities of Baganga, Cateel and Boston still need help.

Concept Note - Joint Government of Australia/ILO side event at the 57th Session of the CSW

International perspectives on women and work in hotels, catering and tourism

This working paper highlights structural and cultural issues that often determine the roles that women play within the hotel, catering and tourism workforce and the strategies which can make a difference to their status and opportunities within the...

Australia

ILO: Better Work Indonesia Strives to End Workplace Harassment

A worker is offered better hours or more money in return for sexual favours; a manager pinches the bottom of a worker; a worker spreads malicious rumours about a fellow co-worker. These are all forms of harassment, and are common in one form or...

ILO: Better Work Indonesia Programme Launch Phase 2

The Indonesian garment industry has enjoyed rapid growth, significantly contributing to the national economic growth by providing more than one million jobs and accounting for one of the primary state revenues.

Policy guide

Strengthening the role of employment injury schemes to help prevent occupational accidents and diseases

The aim of this guide is to provide policy recommendations for future direction in the area of employment injury schemes. The guide is targeted at national authorities dealing with occupational safety and health (OSH).

Plan safe, plan healthy: Guidelines for developing national programmes on occupational safety and health

This guide will serve as a useful source of information for those involved in preparing national programmes on occupational safety and health (OSH) and, consequently, will deliver an improvement in working conditions and a reduction in work-related...

Comparative study

Good practices and challenges on the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183) and the Workers with Family Responsibilities...

The working paper presents ten national case studies on Conventions No. 183 and 156. It identifies opportunities for stepping up ratification and implementation of these Conventions, as requested in the 2009 International Labour Conference...

Two Indonesian boys in an Australian prison

Indonesian boys were jailed with adult prisoners in an Australian prison. It has been months since they were arrested as criminals in the country. Their road to freedom is complicated.

Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022

The Australian Strategy provides a framework to drive improvements in work health and safety in Australia. It promotes a collaborative approach between the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, industry and unions and other organisations to...

Pacific ratifications help to bring ‘Seafarers Bill of Rights’ into effect

The ILO has received the 30th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), fulfilling the final condition for the first global standard spanning continents and oceans, to go into effect in a year’s time

Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering...

Opening address at the green jobs mapping project sector consultation

By Ms Lourdes Kathleen Santos, delivered on behalf of Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the green jobs mapping project sector consultation, Manila, Philippines, 26 July 2012

A green plumber for a greener economy

The transition towards a greener economy is expected to affect about half of the global labour force or roughly 1.5 billion people. This means changes in terms of job types and workers’ skills – a topic that is high on the Rio+20 agenda.

A new social contract for Europe?

Questions and answers with Vasco Pedrina, author of “The Eurocrisis and the European trade union movement.