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Tripartite Advisory Committee advances policy action on informality in Armenia

Armenia’s tripartite constituents convened to prepare for upcoming policy discussions and advance the final phase of the ILO initiative on formalization.

International Labour Review Blog

Do Global Value Chains and new technologies improve job quality in Europe?

Drawing on micro-level data from 22 European countries, this blog from the International Labour Review examines how global value chains and digitalisation affect wages and job quality, highlighting their uneven impact across countries, occupations,...

Kazakhstan’s trade unions adopt strategy to advance safety and health in mines

The workshop supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO) delivers a joint trade union strategy to strengthen miners’ safety across national, sectoral and enterprise levels in line with key occupational safety and health (OSH) and labour...

Uzbekistan and UN partners discuss scaling up just energy transition efforts

The International Labour Organization (ILO) highlights the role of social dialogue, decent work and skills development in Uzbekistan’s just energy transition.

Decent work

Tripartite partners in Tajikistan and ILO sign Action Plan on Decent Work for 2025–2026

The new Action Plan for Cooperation between the Tripartite Partners of the Republic of Tajikistan and the International Labour Organization on Decent Work for 2025–2026 aims to advance decent work, social protection, social dialogue and just...

ILO and UN Women call for greater investment in the care economy to advance gender equality and decent work in Armenia

Strengthening care policies and investing in the care economy are vital to achieving gender equality, improving working conditions and fostering inclusive growth in Armenia.

Decent work

Tripartite workshop sets priorities for Uzbekistan’s next Decent Work Country Programme

Uzbekistan’s Government, employers' and workers’ organizations, together with ILO, define the country’s five-year labour agenda, advancing decent work, social dialogue and inclusive growth.

International Year of Cooperatives

ILO highlights the role of the social and solidarity economy in advancing more human-centred measurement of progress

At an expert roundtable at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the ILO underscored how cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) can inform global efforts to move beyond GDP, ensuring that measures of progress reflect human...

New project

ILO and EU launch a project to strengthen Ukraine’s labour market governance

ILO and the EU are investing €3.8 million to modernise Ukraine’s labour-market institutions, strengthen social dialogue, align legislation with ILS and EU law, and prioritise inclusion of women, youth, veterans, displaced persons and people with...

Just transition

A just transition that works for business is up for discussion in the Western Balkans

Employers’ organizations from Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia joined a peer-learning session in Budapest to explore how the transition to low-carbon economies can drive business competitiveness and growth

Europe charts path for Second World Summit for Social Development 2025

Key European and international stakeholders met in Brussels to outline their expectations and priorities for the upcoming World Social Summit and its follow-up.

Social Dialogue

First summer school on Social Dialogue explores industrial relations and due diligence

Over 60 participants joined the first summer school to exchange perspectives on the future of social dialogue, industrial relations and human rights due diligence.

Podcast

How Europe can adapt to an ageing population

In this episode of the Future of Work podcast, ILO economists Sabrina de Gobbi and Stefan Kühn explore what a shrinking European labour force means for the future of work, and the policies that can help labour markets adapt.

International Year of Cooperatives

ILO highlights cooperatives’ role in advancing cultural rights and decent work at global cultural policy conference event

At a side event during the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development, the ILO underlined the role of cooperatives in advancing cultural rights, decent work, social justice and inclusive development, calling for their...

Impact story

Women lifting other women in the Republic of Moldova

Iuliana Drăgălin became an ILO certified “Start and Improve Your Business” trainer in 2023. Since then, she has opened the door to the business world for many new entrepreneurs, most of them women.

Questions and answers

Generative AI at work: What it means for jobs in Europe and beyond

Pawel Gmyrek, Senior Researcher at the ILO and co-author of Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure, discusses how generative AI could shape jobs across countries and sectors.

Labour statistics

From data to dignity: Valuing unpaid domestic and care work in the Republic of Moldova

By giving unpaid domestic and care work a place in national and international statistics, we can gain a deeper understanding of the real value and contributions of this work to economies and societies.

Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190)

Uzbekistan moves toward a safer working environment with a training on preventing violence and harassment

Labour inspectors and social partners in Uzbekistan build practical skills to prevent and respond to workplace violence and harassment at ILO training.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Interview with Nataša Žugić, Director of the housing cooperative "Pametnija Zgrada" (Smarter Building) in Belgrade, Serbia

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Global Accelerator

Uzbekistan hosts tripartite workshop to develop forthcoming social insurance law

With ILO support under the Global Accelerator, tripartite constituents in Uzbekistan discuss maternity benefit reform to expand social protection coverage.