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COVID-19

COVID-19 Pandemic and Employment Relations Reset High on the Agenda of the Saint-Petersburg International Legal Forum

How to save one’s business and comply with obligations before the workers? What changes to the labour law are now possible and acceptable? How to settle the legal and other aspects of remote work? These and other issues were discussed at a special...

ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Moves to Teleworking due to COVID-19

In accordance with the ILO Director-General’s decision and as a mitigation measure in the local circumstances, full teleworking arrangement as of 17 March 2020 and until further notice has been introduced to ILO staff stationed in Moscow, Tashkent,...

Meeting of the RSPP committee on the labour market and social partnership

On 5 March, the ILO Moscow Office participated and provided input at a meeting of the Committee on the Labour Market and Social Partnership of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Youth entrepreneurship for rural development in Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation

On 18-19 February 2020, the Astrakhan Region hosted a kick-off conference on the joint Astrakhan Region Public Employment Service (PES) and the ILO pilot youth employment programme.

ILO Takes Part in 2020 Sustainable Cooperation Forum in Moscow

On 17 February 2020, the ILO Moscow office participated in the 2020 Sustainable Cooperation Forum organized by the UN Global Compact Network Russia.

Tripartite social dialogue – promoting inclusive decision-making

Fifty representatives from all 10 countries in the sub-region came together in Moscow from December 11-13 to learn from each other how tripartite social dialogue promotes inclusive decision-making.

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The third international conference “Breakthrough Technologies: Challenges for the Development of Society and Global Governance (EMERTECH 2019)” was held in Moscow on 5 December 2019 by the Primakov National Institute of World Economy and...

The ILO “Employment Academy II” a timely support to the Russian reform of the employment centres

The second ILO Employment Academy organized on 20-22 November 2019 in Moscow in partnership with the Federal Service for Labour and Employment (Rostrud) discussed the achievements and challenges faced during the first year of implementation of the...

Deputy Minister Grigory Lekarev: Russian Ministry of Labour Runs Active Awareness Campaign for HIV/AIDS Prevention at Work

Grigory Lekarev, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection, made this statement at the 5th All-Russia Forum for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment practitioners.

State Secretary-Deputy Minister Andrei Pudov: Russia Is Taking Multi-Faceted Interagency and Interregional Efforts to Develop Social...

Andrei Pudov, State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection, made this statement during the Global Social Protection Week in Geneva, Switzerland.

NIS economic experts meeting

The PERC and the ILO-ACTRAV organized on 6-7 November in Tbilisi an annual meeting of the trade union economic experts from the NIS countries. The meeting continues cooperation of trade union professional experts as a part of the PERC coordinated...

Saratov Hosts ILO Training Course for Labour Inspections

The ILO Training Course “Academy of Labour Inspection” was opened today by Egor Ivanov, Head of Department of State Supervision in the Labour Sphere of ROSTRUD (Moscow).

Russia Has Joined ILO’s Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Programme

The Russian Federation will fund five positions for young professionals of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Ankara, Brussels, Geneva, Moscow and Rome. To that end, the official ceremony for the signature of the Memorandum of...

Russian Regions Discuss Strategic Action Plans for Youth Employment

On 24-25 October, the Republic of Komi hosted a meeting of six Russian regions to discuss action plans for youth employment promotion.

ILO 100

A centenary celebration 100 metres below sea level

Employment specialists from the International Labour Organization visit a mine in the Russian Federation to mark the Centenary of the organization and to promote decent work.

ILO-FNPR Conference and Workshop on the Future of Work and Trade Union Advocacy Took place in Rostov-on-Don

The conference organized by the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) jointly with the ILO opened up on October 16 at the Trade Union House of the Rostov Oblast. It was followed by an advocacy workshop for trade union associations...

ILO Welcomes Latest Researches on Labour Issues by Young Social Scientists

The ILO welcomed researches on labour issues by students at the student conference “People and work as seen by young scientists: Questions of methodology and policy” at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) on 11 October 2019.

UN General Assembly

Our efforts must ensure young people have decent job opportunities and the skills to take them

This call is launched by the participants of a high-level event held on September 23 in New York on the margins of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly. The high-level event was co-organized by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of...

The International Labour Organization Expressed Recognition to State Duma Deputies

In an official letter to the State Duma leadership, Olga Koulaeva, Director of the ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, expressed recognition to Yaroslav Nilov, Chairman of the Committee on Labour, Social Policy and Veterans’ Affairs, and...

Inclusive Future of Work: Russian Federation

Country brief prepared for the 1st EWG under the 2019 Brazilian presidency of the BRICS