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  1. Surfing the labour market

    Enhancing youth employability with a new career guidance mobile app in Moldova

    17 January 2019

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    Pension reform

    ILO advises Ukraine not to move forward with pension privatization

    16 January 2019

    ILO News talked to Fabio Duran-Valverde, Head of the Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistics Unit, Social Protection Department, ILO Geneva, and Kenichi Hirose, Senior Social Protection Specialist, ILO-Budapest, about the global and regional trends of pension reform and the current proposal to introduce a mandatory funded pension tier based on individual accounts in Ukraine.

  3. © Dmytro Muravnyets 2019

    Op-ed

    Ukrainian State Employment Service has far more to offer than unemployment benefits

    17 December 2018

    Out of the 45 million Ukrainians, 1.7 million are unemployed, says the Labour Force Survey of March 2018. Less than 21% of them are registered with the State Employment Service (SES). But where are the rest?

  4. News

    ILO Director-General on First Ever Visit to Uzbekistan

    14 December 2018

    Mr. Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), is on his first ever visit to Uzbekistan.

  5. Public sector reform

    Higher salaries under a leaner and more transparent system: Moldova introduces new public pay system

    04 December 2018

    On 1 December 2018, the Government of Moldova introduced a new unitary pay system in the public sector. The aim of this reform was to make the public pay system simpler, more transparent, and fairer. The ILO together with German GIZ and the European Union provided technical assistance and played a critical role in facilitating the process leading up to the adoption of the new law.

  6. Event

    Training for trainers “OSH - risk management (assessment and control) methodologies and labour inspectors’ gesture in Construction”

    Training for trainers

  7. Event

    Training for trainers “OSH - risk management (assessment and control) methodologies and labour inspectors’ gesture in Road Transport”

    Training for trainers

  8. Forced and child labour

    Major progress on forced labour and child labour in Uzbekistan cotton fields

    22 November 2018

    International Labour Organization monitors say that forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has been significantly reduced. As in previous years child labour is no longer a concern.

  9. Event

    OSH risk management (assessment and control) methodologies and labour inspectors’ gesture in Forestry

    Training for trainers

  10. Publication

    Perspectives of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian youth on decent work opportunities and challenges in Kosovo

    05 November 2018

    The study details the perspectives and experiences of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian youth from the municipalities of Gjakovë/Djakovica, Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje and Gracanica/Graçanicë on their challenges and opportunities in finding decent work. The findings and recommendations will serve to underpin the development of gender-sensitive measures for labour market inclusion of the three communities in the three municipalities covered by the study.