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Social Protection Floors. Volume 3. Governance and Financing
The volumes on “Social Protection Floors” present best practices and experiences from countries that are useful for South-South learning, for practitioners and to provide the basis for more informed policy-making.
Social Protection Floors. Volume 2. Innovations to Extend Coverage
The volumes on “Social Protection Floors” present best practices and experiences from countries that are useful for South-South learning, for practitioners and to provide the basis for more informed policy-making.
Including HIV in public and private sector insurance policies and products
This brief is to help public and private sector insurance/social protection providers as well as other stakeholders engaged in the HIV response to work together for expanding the insurance coverage for PLHIV.
ACI 2: Jobs and skills for youth -Thematic funding for 2014-15 (SIDA-ILO Partnership Programme 2014-17) - (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project: GLO/14/72/SID - Evaluation Consultant: Rafael Muñoz Sevilla
Jobs in Latin America
Latin American and Caribbean unemployment to rise in 2016
The evolution of labour markets in the region will be analyzed at ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, to be held in Mexico this month.
Informal economy
Transition to the formal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Based on the recent developments that took place in the region, the main aim of this report is to depict the regional patterns in policies and outcomes and obtain lessons from them to enrich the discussion on better policies to handle the...
Public Employment Services: Uruguay
Decent Work for Youth - A course for policy makers
Turin, Italiy 29 June - 10 July 2015
Note on Public Employment Services in Uruguay
Uruguay
Job evaluation and design of an occupational certification process in the construction industry - Uruguay: Public-Private Partnership
In coordination with employers’ and workers’ representatives, and funded by the Fondo Social de la Construcción, the ILO Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (ILO-CINTERFOR) embarked on an initiative entitled “Job...
Latin American Network to Combat Child Labour: Public-Private Partnership
This partnership between Fundación Telefónica and the ILO created a strategic regional alliance to more efficiently combat child labour in Latin America. It strengthens institutions and provides the required tools to disseminate good practices and...
International Youth Day: 12 August 2015
Formal employment: A critical way to engage young people
The theme for International Youth Day in 2015 is youth civic engagement, which includes economic and social engagement. Young workers who are part of the formal economy have a greater chance of having access to decent work as adults.
Latin America and the Caribbean assume the commitment to completely end child labour
The Focal Points Network of the “Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour”, launched its first face-to-face meeting in Brasilia
Notes on Formalization
Reduction of informal employment in Uruguay: policies and outcomes
Since 2005, informal employment in Uruguay has declined as a result of a number of public policies implemented in a context of strong economic growth. This decline can be explained by the reactivation of collective bargaining; tax reforms and...
Occupational Safety and Health
Uruguay ratifies the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176)
Uruguay has ratified 15 occupational safety and health Conventions
Job evaluation and design of an occupational certification process in the construction industry
In coordination with employers’ and workers’ representatives, and funded by the Fondo Social de la Construcción, the ILO Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (ILO-CINTERFOR) commenced an initiative entitled “Job...
Domestic workers negotiate new collective agreements in Uruguay and Italy
40th. Meeting of the Technical Committee
Information note
Facing the crisis in Europe: reflections on the case of Uruguay
Labour in the Global South: Challenges and alternatives for workers
“Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide.” −Edward Webster,...