All resources: digital labour + digital divide + artificial intelligence

DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III message at the ILO Japan project launch

By Secretary Silvestre Bello III of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) at the launch of the ILO Japan Bringing Back Jobs Safely under the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines: Rebooting Small and Informal Businesses Safely and Digitally, 15...

DICT Secretary Gregorio Honasan II message at the ILO Japan project launch

By Secretary Gregorio Honasan II of the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) at the launch of the ILO Japan Bringing Back Jobs Safely under the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines: Rebooting Small and Informal Businesses...

DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez message at the ILO Japan project launch

By Secretary Ramon Lopez of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) at the launch of the ILO Japan Bringing Back Jobs Safely under the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines: Rebooting Small and Informal Businesses Safely and Digitally, 15 July 2021,...

International Journal of Labour Research

Digitalize, adapt and innovate: Challenges and opportunities for trade unions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the recovery period

This article explores the emerging challenges for workers’ organizations that intersect with digital technology deficits at national level and growing informalization, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although specific reference is...

World Employment and Social Outlook 2021. The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work

Worker monitoring and surveillance in digital labour platforms

Presentation by Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews

Algorithms, artificial intelligence and automated decisions concerning workers and the risks of discrimination

Presentation by Dr. Adrián Todolí Signes, University of Valencia

Skills, AI and algorithmic management

Presentation by Konstantinos Pouliakas, Cedefop

Platform labour in search of value: A study of workers’ organizing practices and business models in the digital economy

This report seeks to capture the new strategies being deployed by self-employed workers to reclaim their rights to decent work and a fair share of economic gains in the value networks of the emerging platform economy. Specifically, it focuses on the...

Policy note

Public Employment Services pressing ahead with digitalization should be aware of the digital divide

The internet is becoming a key resource for job seekers, entrepreneurs or those looking to make a career change. The digitalization of public employment services (PES) has accelerated in response to the COVID-19 crisis. To ensure they remain...

ADWA'

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work in Egypt

Training Policy Brief

How to improve working conditions for gig workers in Thailand?

While Thai platform workers enjoy flexibility and independence, they are deprived of security at work resulting from unclear employment status. Given insufficient benefits generated from platforms, gig workers can only be protected under social...

19th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress 2021

Reinvigorate labour market institutions to address present crisis and future challenges

In a speech to the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress, the ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, outlined the steps needed to build a sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in the world...

Social security administration for digital platform workers 数字平台从业人员社保经办管理

ECLAC-ILO Decent work for platform workers in Latin America”, Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, No. 24

The report analyses the effect of this crisis on the main labour market indicators in 2020 and presents the main characteristics of digital platform work relative to key aspects of decent work.

Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 24): Decent work for platform workers in Latin America

This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) analyses the...

Digitally empowering young people in refugee and host communities What is possible? - A mapping study in Kenya

The mapping study conducted by the ILO aims to inform practitioners in the field, including the programme staff and development partners, in the design and implementation of activities. The study seeks to identify good practices, capture lessons...

Employment Working Group

The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work

The digital labour platform business model is transforming the world of work in a number of ways: algorithmic management practices; changing the organization of work and work processes and shifting the responsibility of investing in capital assets...

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