All resources: Republic of North Macedonia

Policy advice

Is youth employment improving in the Western Balkans? 5 key trends to guide decision-makers in 2020

As the year slowly draws to a close, it also invites a pause for reflection to take stock and look ahead. With electoral tests facing several governments in the Western Balkans in 2020 (North Macedonia and Serbia being cases in point), many policy...

Balkan network of labour dispute agencies

Peaceful settlement of labour disputes is a faster and cheaper way of coming to an agreement

In October 2019, in Zlatibor, Serbia, the Agencies for Peaceful Settlement of Labour Disputes of Montenegro, North Macedonia, the Republika Srpska-Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which sets the basis for joint...

Trade unions

ITUC wage campaign steps up efforts to increase wages in the Balkans

In 2017, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) launched a global wage campaign to support trade union action to increase wages. Most of the activities had taken place in Asia, Latin America and Africa so far. In July 2019, ITUC extended...

Economic and Social Affairs Platform

Scaling up social dialogue in the Western Balkans

The Economic and Social Councils of the Western Balkans, the EU Commission, the Regional Cooperation Council and the ILO met at a high-level meeting to assess the progress made and the challenges ahead in efficient tripartite social dialogue in the...

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...

Enabling environment for sustainable enterprises

What stops businesses from thriving in North Macedonia?

New ILO report spells out where progress was made and identifies remaining key constraints for enterprise development.

The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in North Macedonia

ILO Budapest leaflet

The leaflet describes the mission, geographical focus, resources and interventions offered by the ILO Regional office for Central and Eastern Europe. It enlists its donors and offers testimonies of beneficiaries of the office's interventions.

The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in North Macedonia

Assessment of the economic impacts of the 2017 increase in the minimum wage in North Macedonia

This report is the first ILO publication which specifically covers minimum wages in North Macedonia. We trust that this report will serve as a useful reference, particularly for the tripartite constituents as a means of facilitating an ongoing...

Increase of minimum wage

What did North Macedonia learn from reforming the minimum wage?

The country in the Southeast of Europe went for a bold reform of the minimum wage system in 2017 and asked the ILO for support in assessing the impact of this policy on income equality and employment. A new ILO study provides encouraging findings.

Youth employment

The Youth Guarantee in the Western Balkans: five lessons to learn from the case of North Macedonia

Among the many notches that North Macedonia put on its belt in recent years, there is one for being the first non-EU country bent on introducing a fully-fledged youth guarantee (YG). When the Recommendation of the European Union Council compelled EU...

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...

Staff voices from ILO Central and Eastern Europe

Learn more about key ILO achievements in the region from interviews with ILO staff: Director of regional office and National Coordinators from 7 countries.

Reversing Pension Privatizations. Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America

From 1981 to 2014, thirty countries privatized fully or partially their public mandatory pensions; as of 2018, eighteen countries have reversed the privatization.

Regional cooperation in the Western Balkans for ensuring the right of every worker to safe and fair working conditions developed

In the frame of the ILO project “Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP)”, funded by the EU, the Labour Inspection of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have signed yesterday, 27 of March, in...

Non-standard forms of employment

Strengthening social protection for the future of work—extending the social security to workers in non-standard employment

Europe has been experiencing a growing diversification in working arrangements, as exemplified through the decline of standard employment and the significant growth of non-standard forms of employment. These developments were discussed at a recent...

Decent Work Country Programmes

ILO signs new cooperation agreements with three countries from the Western Balkans

ILO signed three new Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) with Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia on 6-8 March, 2019. The agreements define ILO’s technical assistance for the next four years addressing key labour market and social protection...

New project

Interview with Mr. Nicola Bertolini, Head of Cooperation in the EU Delegation to the Republic of North Macedonia

The EU signed its 2nd grant agreement with the ILO in North Macedonia. The intervention will improve social dialogue as a means to create more and better jobs in the country. The project duration is 30 months with a budget of 1.18 Mio EUR.

Pension reform

ILO advises Ukraine not to move forward with pension privatization

ILO News talked to Fabio Duran-Valverde, Head of the Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistics Unit, Social Protection Department, ILO Geneva, and Kenichi Hirose, Senior Social Protection Specialist, ILO-Budapest, about the global and regional trends...