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Protocol to pact to protect Tajik labour migrants in Russia signed in Moscow

A protocol to introduce changes to the agreement between the Tajik and Russian governments on Tajik citizens' employment and protection of their rights in Russia, dated 16 October 2004, was signed in Moscow today.

Brussels held up red card to child labour

On the occasion of the UN Day, celebrated on 20 October 2013 by different UN agencies in Brussels, dozens of people held up the ILO Red Card to child labour to support the ILO's worldwide campaign against child labour.

Workers’ resistance against Nazi Germany at the International Labour Conference 1933

Eighty years ago, the delegation of national socialist Germany made an early exit from the International Labour Conference. An attempt to install the German Labour Front as legitimate worker representatives, instead of the free trade unions,had...

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder calls for more regular migration channels in the EU

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder addressed a conference of the European Commission on EU labour law in a video message. Recalling the recent Lampedusa tragedy, he advocated joint efforts of the European Union, the ILO, governments, workers' and...

Russia said to be seeking Tajik approval for new migrant labour rules

Russia is seeking a deal with Tajikistan that would update existing agreements governing the movement of migrant workers between the two countries, the privately-owned Russian news agency Interfax reported on 21 October.

EU migration policy

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder calls for more regular migration channels in the EU

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder addressed a conference of the European Commission on EU labour law in a video message.

Slideshow Un Day Brussels 2013

At the celebration of the UN Day on 20 October in the heart of Brussels, people from all over the world held up the ILO Red Card to child labour, showing their active support to the campaign.

Astrakhan hosts international conference on youth employment

On October 16-18 the southern Russian city of Astrakhan hosted a subregional conference focusing on trade unions’ participation in youth employment policy-making, which was organized with the support of the International Labour Organization.

IMF predicts gowth of unemployment in Georgia

The Fund’s main recommendation is to solve the problem of political instability in order to regain the confidence of investors.

Georgia : A new start to promote ILO Standards and strengthen Social Dialogue

Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC) launched a new program for the promotion and the ratification of ILO Conventions for the period 2013-2017 and strengthening social dialogue.

Georgia to switch pension system based on funded component

Georgian Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri held several meetings in Washington. The Georgian delegation met with Meg Lundsager, U.S. Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund to discuss the situation in Georgia, mainly steps Georgia had to...

ILO - European Parliament

Forced labour remains main challenge of 21st century, says ILO at European Parliament hearing

Jean-Marie Kagabo of the ILO Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labour spoke at a European Parliament Hearing on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in the Sahel Region.

Labour standards and Social Dialogue

Georgia : A new start to promote ILO Standards and strengthen Social Dialogue

Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC) launched a new program for the promotion and the ratification of ILO Conventions for the period 2013-2017 and strengthening social dialogue.

Make it visible: Occupational Diseases - Recognition, compensation, and prevention

Programme: ILO International Safety and Health Conference 2013

6 - 7 November 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany

European Union

ILO welcomes European Commission commitment to include social pillar in economic and monetary union

The ILO welcomes the European Commission Communication on the Social dimension of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), adopted on 2 October 2013. With this Communication, the European Commission proposes to add a scoreboard on employment and...

Dialogue Working Paper 52

Working Paper No. 52, "Addressing labour market segmentation: The role of labour law"

The current paper is one in the series of thematic papers. It discusses on contractual segmentation of labour markets by providing an analysis of theoretical, empirical and normative literature with a view to understanding possible legal causes of...

Working Paper No. 51, "From negotiation to imposition: Social dialogue in austerity times in Spain"

This paper is part of a series of studies funded by the European Commission in the framework of a project of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on “Promoting a balanced and inclusive recovery from the crisis in Europe through sound...

Working Paper No. 50, "Coping with the crisis in Italy: Employment relations and social dialogue amidst the recession"

This study on Italy shows that the initial responses to the economic crisis in Italy were designed with the participation of the social partners and focused on supporting small and medium–sized enterprises (SMEs). At the local level, an agreement...

Trade union training on how to conduct negotiations with employers in Karaganda, Kazakhstan

How to keep disagreements from escalating into riots? Experts from the International Labour Organization – Magnus Berge, Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), and Sergeyus Glovackas, ILO Moscow Senior...

Kazakhstan’s Labour Ministry makes efforts to refine minimum subsistence level

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labour and Social Protection set up a working group of national and foreign experts that will develop initiatives towards refining a minimum subsistence level.