News
March 2022
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Press release
Migrant worker accommodation standards in ASEAN need further improvement
10 March 2022
A new report by the ILO highlights migrant worker living standards in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia and the steps needed to ensure decent and adequate accommodation.
January 2021
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Media advisory
ILO to release report on homeworkers
07 January 2021
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New multimedia platform
‘Voices’: Real people, true stories from the world of work
04 January 2021
The ILO welcomes 2021 with an innovative, multimedia platform that focuses on first person stories that take readers on a journey into the world of work.
December 2020
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Maritime Labour Convention
ILO Governing Body calls for urgent action on seafarer COVID-19 crisis
08 December 2020
Its resolution addresses the plight of hundreds of thousands of seafarers who have been trapped at sea for as many as 17 months or longer because of pandemic restrictions.
June 2020
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Blog
‘Business as unusual’: How COVID-19 brought forward the future of work
22 June 2020
Millions of people around the world have been working remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Could this ‘business as unusual’ be the future of work?
May 2020
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COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes
ILO issues guidance for safe, healthy, return to work during COVID-19
22 May 2020
Return to work policies should be informed by a human-centred approach that puts rights and international labour standards at the heart of economic, social and environmental strategies and ensures that policy guidance is embedded in national occupational safety and health systems.
March 2020
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Blog
Having kids sets back women’s labour force participation more so than getting married
03 March 2020
Around the world, gendered social norms continue to shape women's and men's participation in the labour market, new data by household composition show.
January 2020
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Blog
Measuring job quality: Difficult but necessary
27 January 2020
The quality of our job determines to a great extent our well-being and life quality, but measuring it requires taking into account numerous aspects of our working conditions.
September 2019
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G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting
ILO welcomes G20 commitment to human-centred future of work policies
02 September 2019
The G20 Labour and Employment Ministers have adopted a Declaration committing to human-centred world of work policies. The ILO’s Director-General, who took part in the meeting in Japan, welcomed the statement.
May 2019
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Working conditions
Job quality of concern to all workers
06 May 2019
A joint report by the ILO and the European research agency, Eurofound, provides an unprecedented comparative analysis of job quality around the world, including work hours, gender pay differences, exposure to physical risks and opportunities for skills’ upgrading.