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March 2022
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Asia-Pacific labour market insights
E-formalization: A Korean success story
25 March 2022
An ILO report Digital solutions and formalization: E-formalization case study on the Republic of Korea highlights the role digitalization has played in Korea’s formalization success story and provides a series of valuable experiences for other countries in the region.
January 2022
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Publication
The evolution of labour law: Calibrating and comparing regulatory regimes
13 January 2022
Using a newly-created data set which measures legal change over time, the authors present evidence on the evolution of labour law in Germany, France, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their analysis casts light on the claim that “legal origin” affects the content of labour law regimes. While some divergence between common law and civil law countries is found at the aggregate level, a more complex picture emerges from consideration of specific areas of labour law. The authors discuss the potential significance of this relatively new measurement-based approach to understanding the forces that shape the evolution of labour law.
June 2021
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© Alex Proimos 2022
Domestic work – Convention C189
10 years on, domestic workers still fight for equality and decent work
15 June 2021
On the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Domestic Workers’ Convention, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed continued vulnerabilities of domestic workers in the labour market.
December 2020
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International Labour Review, Vol. 159 (2020), No. 4
Introduction: Transnational futures of international labour law
18 December 2020
This Special Issue on transnational labour law is placed in the context of the ILO centenary and the challenge of achieving the objective of decent work in a new century, under distinct transnational pressures. The author argues that international labour law, as the normative core of transnational labour law, can play a crucial role – in conjunction with a wide range of actors and the ILO in its standard-setting and convenor capacities – in addressing this challenge and in reshaping the transnational legal architecture.
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Video
How labour law applies to small enterprises
11 December 2020
Self-employed and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises account for two thirds of jobs worldwide. To ensure that all workers are equally protected, governments are implementing policies that extend the application, compliance, and enforcement of labour law to all enterprises regardless of their size, including those the informal economy and in self-employment.
November 2020
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© ILO 2022
World Children’s Day
Child labour is an affront to our common values
20 November 2020
The universal ratification of the ILO’s Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour is a positive step for Africa’s children says Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa.
July 2020
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International Day of Cooperatives
How cooperatives can help Brazil’s waste pickers build back from COVID-19
03 July 2020
This year’s International Day of Cooperatives on 4 July will focus on climate action. Waste pickers’ cooperatives in Brazil are examples of how cooperatives can help combat climate change, while facing the challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 2020
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© P.Q. Hung / UN Women Viet Nam 2022
Our impact, their voices
Viet Nam’s new Labour Code moves from protecting to empowering women
07 March 2020
Vietnamese women have long played an important role in the economy. Now the new Labour Code aims to ensure they receive a fair reward for their contribution, by tackling gender equality and workplace discrimination.
June 2019
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© Better Work 2022
Our impact, Their voices
Closing the retirement gender gap in Viet Nam
06 June 2019
Women in Viet Nam spend fewer years working, have lower pensions, yet live longer. To counter the problems brought by this retirement gender gap, the ILO is helping Viet Nam bring its labour laws closer to international labour standards.
July 2015
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© Bruce Strong /Together Liberia 2022
Decent Work Bill
Liberia’s new labour law commits to decent work
24 July 2015
Liberia has made history by adopting a new labour law, as it is the only one in the world that directly refers to the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda in its title.