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April 2020
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COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
Young workers will be hit hard by COVID-19’s economic fallout
15 April 2020
The COVID-19 emergency is affecting almost everyone in the world, regardless of age, income or country. However, young people are likely to be particularly hard hit by the economic fallout of the crisis. Find out five reasons why.
March 2020
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COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
Precarious workers pushed to the edge by COVID-19
20 March 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all workers in some way. Those on precarious contracts or in non-standard employment are even harder hit, as many have no access to sick pay, unemployment insurance or other critical protections.
June 2016
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News
Belgium ratifies the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167), and the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175)
08 June 2016
November 2015
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Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2015 KILM
6. Part-time workers
16 November 2015
The indicator on part-time workers focuses on individuals whose working hours total less than “full time”, as a proportion of total employment. Because there is no internationally accepted definition as to the minimum number of hours in a week that constitute full-time work, the dividing line is determined either on a country-by-country basis or through the use of special estimations.
October 2011
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Video News Release
Generation scarred by youth employment crisis
19 October 2011
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned of a "scarred" generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world.
December 2010
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Video News Release
Germany: Keeping Their Wages Through Kurzarbeit
15 December 2010
The global economic crisis has cut wage growth worldwide in half. That’s one conclusion of the ILO’s Global Wage Report. When people have less to spend, businesses suffer, and they in turn have to look at ways to cut costs, wages, and even jobs. But in Germany’s tightly run manufacturing sector, employees and employers worked together with the government to protect jobs and maintain wage levels during the darkest days of the crisis.