2018

1. Kazakhstan: Parliamentary Hearings on Labour Market and Youth Employment

   28 September 2018

   On 28 September the Kazakhstan’s Parliament held hearings, titled “Problems and prospects of development of the employment sphere,” on 28th September. The participants discussed the current state of the labour market, employment, and formalization of self-employed population in Kazakhstan as well as methods to further develop employment of the country in the current context.

2014

1. 

   Challenges and opportunities for trade unions in 2014

   27 January 2014

   Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), discusses achievements of the global trade union movement in 2013 and new challenges coming up this year. She stresses the role of the ILO in the fight for workers’ rights and says what she expects from the ITUC Congress in May 2014 in Berlin.

2013

1. 

   Myanmar celebrates May Day

   01 May 2013

   Government, worker and employer representatives gather in Yangon one year after the adoption of the Organization of Labour Law.

2009

1. 

   From the right to “combine” to the right to organize

   01 August 2009

   From about 1750 onwards, workers had started to organize in Europe. Governments and employers reacted quickly, and laws and regulations were adopted to restrict such activities.