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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...
EU and ILO reinforce cooperation for just recovery from crisis and promote decent work
The International Labour Organization and the European Union have reinforced their cooperation to shape the future of work and promote decent work. This will help the EU and the ILO in their responses to the devastating impact of the coronavirus...
Global Compact on Migration
UNECE region reviews Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Africa-EU Partnership
Pandemic reveals gaps in social protection systems
Conclusions of the 15th High-level meeting between the European Commission and the International Labour Organization (2020)
ILO-EU Relations
ILO and European Commission reaffirm mutual partnership at 15th High Level meeting
European Commission – ILO Development Cooperation Overview
The impact of minimum wage and collective bargaining on inequality
The ILO participated in a conference on strengthening fairness and solidarity in the EU social market economy, organized by the European Commission.
The EU-ILO partnership for development cooperation
The EU and the ILO have a longstanding partnership based on a shared vision to achieve social justice and decent work for all. Their collaboration is rooted in the promotion of international labour standards and cooperation with governments as well...
International Labour Rights
ITUC Global Rights Index 2020 shows workers’ rights violations occur too often in Central and Eastern Europe
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released its yearly Global Rights Index in June 2020. This year, the report affirms that the violations of workers’ rights is increasing globally, and is the highest in seven years. For Central and...
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...
Forced Labour
Lithuania renews commitment to combat forced labour
Lithuania has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention becoming the 45th ILO member State to do so
Social dialogue and the Future of Work
Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work
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.
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...
WESO Report 2020
What does the new WORLD EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL OUTLOOK: TRENDS 2020 report say about Central and Eastern Europe?
ILO100
Council of the EU welcomes the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work
The Council calls on the EU Member States to pursue a human-centred approach to the future of work.
CEELex Central and Eastern European Labour Legislation Database
CEELex is a searchable online database offering information on the national labour laws in Central and Eastern Europe. Based on ILO conventions and more than 25 years of working experience in labour legislation in CEE, the database provides selected...
Training for trade union lawyers and leaders on the use of international labour standards and the ILO supervisory machinery
On July 25-27, 2019 in Issykkul region, Kyrgyzstan, a three-day training workshop was organized for trade union leaders and lawyers from Central Asia on the use of international labour standards and the ILO supervisory machinery.
Trade unions
ITUC Global Rights Index shows workers’ rights are frequently violated in Central and Eastern Europe
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released in June its yearly Global Rights Index. For 2019, it shows that Central and Eastern Europe still has a long way to go before workers can access the rights laid down in international labour...