All resources: digital labour + digital divide + artificial intelligence + gig economy + data protection + algorithmic management

ILO Working paper 32

Digital Work in Eastern Europe: Overview of Trends, Outcomes, and Policy Responses

This paper presents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe over the period 1999-2019. It presents the profiles of digital workers, their working conditions and discusses how these are shaped by the business models of...

ILO Caribbean Resilience Symposium

Labour experts call for greater investments in digital, blue and green economies, skills development and reduction of inequalities to...

Government Ministers, employers’ and workers’ representatives as well as academic researchers and development agencies gather for ILO Caribbean Resilience Symposium

Digital Transformations in the World of Work

Extending social protection to Indonesian digital workers

Digital and gig economies have created enormous opportunities and enhanced productivity of workers, businesses and the overall society. Yet, they also pose serious threat to decent work and fair competition.

Young people and the gig economy (Luis Pinedo Caro, Niall O’Higgins and Janine Berg)

Is the future ready for youth? Youth employment policies for evolving labour markets

Refugee work in the digital economy

Digital refugee livelihoods and decent work - Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy [Full report]

The digitization of the world of work is fundamentally transforming how refugees can make a livelihood and obtain employment. A rapidly expanding global digital economy harbours countless new opportunities but it also poses a range of challenges and...

EII principles and challenges for the coverage of platform workers 平台从业人员工伤保障原则和挑战

Platform work and employment relationship 平台工作与雇佣关系

Building employment injury protection for platform workers

The ILO Country Office in Beijing and MOHRSS organized a Research Seminar on Employment Injury Insurance for Workers in the Platform Economy aimed at sharing experiences and providing recommendations for a national regulatory framework for...

The first ILO Skills Virtual Fair calls on policy-makers and training institutions to build partnerships and promote innovations to bridge...

The first ILO Skills Virtual Fair, held on 21-22 April, brought together participants from 132 countries for a series of thematic and regional sessions, as well as exhibition stands to establish skills partnerships and promote innovation in the...

Girls in ICT Day

Pursuing passion in technology: The journey of a female tech entrepreneur

A young Indonesian female engineer and tech entrepreneur, Fransiska Hadiwidjana, shares her inspiring journey to pursue her passion and to encourage more women to enter the digital world.

Digital acceleration in the context of learning and skills development

A learning event, organised by UNICEF and the ILO under the PROSPECTS Partnership, examined digital solutions to learning and skills development to support forcibly displaced children and youth as well as host community members in response to...

Executive summary: Digital refugee livelihoods and decent work - Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy

Digital refugee livelihoods and decent work - Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy [Summary]

This report offers the first comparative global assessment of the emerging field of digital livelihoods and digital work among refugees. The insights are based on eight unique case studies that are authored by leading experts in their respective...

ILO Voices | Digital labour

Time to deliver: Decent work in digital labour platforms

For digital platform workers, considered to be essential in many countries, the COVID-19 outbreak increased their vulnerability and lack of protection. The silver lining: with decent work, the pandemic could drive a positive digital transformation.

Digitalization in teaching and education in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania

Our impact, their voices

Taking the harassment out of ridesharing in Nepal

Ridesharing motorbike taxi services provide employment to thousands in Nepal, especially young people. A new partnership pilot between ILO and Fight Back Pvt. Ltd is helping raise awareness on occupational health and safety as well as sexual...

ILO Working paper 27

Platform work and the employment relationship

This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198). It finds that this...

Brief

From potential to practice: Preliminary findings on the numbers of workers working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic