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Building a pathway for economic reconstruction: A rapid market assessment of construction, childcare and e-commerce in Ukraine

This rapid market systems analysis (MSA) provides a snapshot of three high-potential sectors – construction, childcare and e-commerce – which are well positioned to create more and better jobs and better jobs for Ukraine’s vulnerable workers in the...

ILO Director-General discusses bilateral cooperation with the European Commission

During his first official visit to Brussels, the ILO Director-General met the Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, the Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, and the EU Commissioners for Jobs and Social Rights and...

Multilateralism

ILO Director-General warns of threat to social justice at meeting with Chancellor Scholz and other international organization leaders

Social justice, social protection and creating enough decent jobs were discussed during the Director-General’s visit to Berlin, which also resulted in new cooperation agreements with the World Bank and the German government.

ILO COOP Participates in the CECOP Lights On Research Launch Conference in Italian

On November 24, 2022, the European Confederation of Industrial and Service cooperatives (CECOP) launched the Italian translation of the report that documents how workers’ and social cooperatives can assist workers and enterprises in the transition...

Video: Design-thinking workshop on the expansion of labour market inclusion for workers with disability. November 2022, Kyrgyzstan

Design Thinking Workshop Allows to identify needs of persons with disabilities for supporting the design of social protection benefits enabling inclusion into labour market. The project Enhancing disability - inclusiveness of social protection...

ILO partnerships

What does the European Labour Authority do to improve labour inspection and labour mobility?

In September, 2022, the ILO and the ELA collaborated on recommendations on how to reduce the risks of trafficking in persons, labour exploitation and undeclared work, with a focus on Ukrainian refugees in Moldova and the European Member states....

Support for Ukraine recovery−Introducing the ILO service offer 2022

This document presents the service offer of the ILO for contributing to Ukraine Recovery and Reconstruction through decent work promotion. Based on the presence of the ILO in Ukraine since 1993, the paper specifies the technical service offer of the...

ILO Ukraine response November 2022

The two-pager provides information on the impact of the war in Ukraine on employment, incomes and the social protection system, and what the ILO has done so far to support Ukraine.

Care economy

Investing in universal childcare and long-term care services in the EU could generate over 13 million jobs by 2030, says ILO

At the European Employment & Social Rights Forum, the ILO underlined that closing the current policy gaps in care in the EU would yield high returns on investment, boost women’s labour market participation, and reduce gender wage gaps.

Future of work

ILO discusses the future of digital skills at European Tech Futures Summit

During the Summit in the European Parliament, the ILO discussed the societal transformations brought by digital technologies in the world of work and how workers’ digital skills can be trained.

The new EU Directive on minimum wage sets a dual goal

In seeking to reduce working poverty and inequality, it focuses on improving the adequacy of statutory minimum wages as well as the promotion of collective bargaining.

ILO discusses the socio-economic impact of the pandemic in the European Parliament

At a hearing in the European Parliament, the Director of ILO-Brussels shared some key learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, and discussed how its socio-economic consequences can be tackled.

ILO discusses labour reforms in Qatar at European Parliament hearing

Addressing the European Parliament, the ILO stressed that tangible progress has been achieved in Qatar in the past 4,5 years, including the adoption of new labour laws and policies, and reflected on the challenges that remain regarding the...

New EU-ILO action to advance decent work in supply chains through sectoral social dialogue

New trade union services

New mobile application protects workers’ rights in Moldova

The ILO supported the National Trade Union Confederation of Moldova (CNSM) to launch a mobile application at the end of September, 2022 enabling trade union members to report workers’ rights violations to the unions and the State Labour...

ILO Voices | Rural economy

Entrepreneur turns problems into profit

When COVID-19 hit, Merima Kukić Gego’s future looked bleak. Her traineeship had ended and her options in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina looked like unemployment or migration. But instead she found the drive to start a food and tourism business,...

ILO participates in a session on investing in the SSE to improve employment at the 10th edition of the Mont Blanc Meetings

The session on investing in the SSE to improve employment took place at the 10th edition of the Mont Blanc on October 18 in Cartagena, Colombia.

Just transition

ILO underlines importance of skills and training in the green transition at EU Sustainable Investment Summit

At the second EU Sustainable Investment Summit, the ILO discussed the need to train the workforce to achieve the green transition and shared its views on the role of public-private partnerships in this key challenge.

Inside the ILO

ILO Budapest team reunites and plans for future

After almost three years, staff from across the region gathered for a workshop focused on addressing future challenges.​

Care sector

How to make the care sector resilient after the pandemic?

Care workers have a crucial role in safeguarding our health and protecting our societies. But to be able to protect us, they must be protected adequately, including through investments in equal pay and decent workplaces, said Heinz Koller, ILO...