All resources: Republic of North Macedonia

Meet the Specialists: Iulia Drumea, Employers' organizations

Iulia Drumea, Employers' Organizations Specialist explains how she supports ILO work with Employers organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. Employers organizations work to create a business-friendly environment for their members. The ILO...

Policy innovations responding to the pandemic

Three essential questions to Mihail Arandarenko, Professor at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics

Welcome to our first issue of short interviews with important researchers and practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe on burning questions concerning labour and social policies. The interviewee is Mihail Arandarenko, a leading researcher on...

Protection of workers

Non-standard forms of employment: assets or liabilities?

Temporary employment, part-time work, temporary agency work, fixed term contracts, disguised employment: non-standard forms of employment can help enterprises adjust quickly to market dynamics and tackle labour shortages. However, when misused to...

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in North Macedonia: Market Assessment

Barriers for Access to Finance for MSMEs in North Macedonia: Stock of existing data and knowledge

Policy Proposal for Entrepreneurial Culture: Start-up and enterprise support services

Meet the Specialists: Magnus Berge, Workers organizations

Magnus Berge, Senior Specialist for Workers' Organizations explains how he supports ILO work with Trade Unions in Central and Eastern Europe. He promotes Trade Unions so that they can work more effectively to improve working conditions of workers...

Meet the Specialists: Daniela Zampini, Employment creation

Daniela Zampini, the Employment Specialist of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe explains what she does to create more and better jobs, how she works with governments, employers, workers, civil society organizations or municipalities, and...

ILO Working paper 32

Digital Work in Eastern Europe: Overview of Trends, Outcomes, and Policy Responses

This paper presents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe over the period 1999-2019. It presents the profiles of digital workers, their working conditions and discusses how these are shaped by the business models of...

Non-standard forms of employment in selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe. A critical glance into regulation and implementation

This volume aims to offer a retrospective look into the implementation of some non-standard forms of employment (NSFE) in selected Central and Eastern European countries. It captures independent critical views on national regulations and their...

International Training Centre of the ILO

New challenges for TVET and skills development - what do you want to learn today?

The importance of learning new skills has never been as evident as in the last year. Almost overnight, all of the global workforce had to admit they faced challenges with their digital skills. We had to switch to new ways of managing work and doing...

Evolving challenges and expectations facing Macedonian enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic

ILO support to Employers' organizations during the pandemic

North Macedonia extends wage support to enterprises as Covid-19 pandemic enters the third wave

In the last quarter of 2020, the ILO supported the Organization of Employers of Macedonia (OEM) and Business Confederation of Macedonia (BCM) in conducting a second countrywide enterprise survey with the aim to track business challenges and needs...

Towards a comprehensive and resilient social security system

Social security and COVID-19: Which measures were effective in protecting workers?

The recent ILO report reviews the national social security measures in response to the COVID-19 crisis, analyses their effectiveness, and discusses future challenges in improving the social security systems. The report covers seven countries in the...

My labour, my rights

Do you know your labour rights? Web-based solutions developed by ILO keep youth and workers informed in North Macedonia and Moldova

Youngsters tend to be inseparable from their phones, spending hours connecting with friends, searching for information, or playing games. This habitual use of smartphones is what the ILO built on when it launched the national competition for...

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...

Global Compact on Migration

UNECE region reviews Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

COVID-19 and the World of work

Health and safety at work in the COVID-19 pandemic: A key to reviving the labour market and the economy

The ILO has been supporting its constituents in the region since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure health and safety at the workplace. Without the protection of workers, the recovery of the economy cannot be possible.

North Macedonia: Trade unions provide new legal services for workers during the current COVID-19 labour market crisis

Through the EU-funded project Strengthening Social Dialogue, ILO is supporting trade union initiatives to provide much needed legal services for members at a time when rights are infringed too often.

Enterprises during the pandemic

Rapid assessments on the impact of COVID-19 on enterprises in four Western Balkan countries reveal significant disruption and job loss but...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures caused significant losses and disruptions for enterprises in the Western Balkans. To assess the challenges and needs of the business sector and identify relevant support...