Past events

March 2022

  1. Webinar on Career Guidance for Building Young People’s Future: The Role of Employment Services

    2 March 2022

  2. Zero tolerance for child labour, forced labour and human trafficking

    2 - 3 March 2022

    A meeting organized by Alliance 8.7's pathfinder countries to demonstrate that "zero tolerance" of the worst forms of human exploitation is a shared responsibility.

  3. Joint ILO-WTO Webinar on Gender, trade and labour market outcomes in Covid times

    2 March 2022

    The Webinar will bring together academics, experts from international organisations, including from the WTO and ILO to discuss gender, trade and labour market outcomes with a specific emphasis on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected employment, wages and other decent work indicators and on how trade can help make the recovery more inclusive.

  4. Regional e-conference “Ageing and Long-Term Care with a Focus on National Transfer Accounts”

    1 March 2022

    This is the third webinar of a series of events aiming to foster exchanges and promote mutual learning among countries in the Asia Pacific region and beyond, on strategies, progress and remaining challenges on the extension of social health protection.

  5. How to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the recovery process: Lessons from the ILO Monitor Series

    1 March 2022

    EMPLOYMENT Seminar #37. The seminar will discuss how to monitor and analyse labour market changes in a timely and cost-effective manner in times of crisis, drawing lessons from the ILO Monitor Series.

February 2022

  1. Friday is the New Saturday: the economic case for the four-day working week

    28 February 2022

    Friday is the New Saturday makes a compelling, provocative and timely case for societal change. Drawing on an eclectic range of economic theory, history and data, Dr Pedro Gomes argues that a four-day working week will bring about a powerful economic renewal for the benefit of all society. It will stimulate demand, productivity, innovation and wages, whilst reducing unemployment and crushing populist movements. The arguments come from both the left and right of the political spectrum to show that a polarised society can still find common ground.

  2. Policy dialogue on fair foreign employment process and good practices of migrant workers in Baluchistan

    25 February 2022

    The ILO’s Project “Governance of Labour Migration in South and South East Asia” (GOALS) funded by Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) in collaboration with Ministry of Overseas Pakistani and Human Resources Development (MOP&HRD) and Department of Labour Baluchistan and with its constituents, will organize a policy dialogue in Quetta to identify the pathways to promote fair recruitment for foreign migrant workers and minimize the role of subagents/intermediaries in foreign employment recruitment in Pakistan. The participants will deliberate on the key challenges, encountered by Pakistani migrant workers during foreign employment process and discuss other related policy recommendations.

  3. Panel discussion and report launch: Making universal social protection a reality for people living with, at the risk of, and affected by HIV or Tuberculosis

    24 February 2022

    This webinar will launch the ILO paper "Making universal social protection a reality for people living with, at the risk of, and affected by HIV or Tuberculosis’"

  4. Effects of a transition for environmental sustainability on labour and trade: literature review

    23 February 2022

    The working paper reviews the extant theoretical and empirical literature on the environment, labour, and trade. It gives an overview of the evidence of the impacts of climatic change on labour and trade, of the concept of a green economy, environmental policy measures and introduces some questions arising from the calls for a ‘just transition’. It reviews theoretical literature on the channels through which policies promoting an environmental transition affect labour and trade, and which empirical strategies are commonly used to study this relationship. It also provides an overview of existing empirical evidence on the relationship between labour and environmental transitions, trade and environmental transitions, and labour, trade and the environment. Finally, it identifies the gaps in the literature and concludes.

  5. Responsible digital wage payments

    22 February 2022

    The Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work and the Better Than Cash Alliance organized a side session during the "2022 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector".