News about digital labour platforms (Non-standard forms of employment)

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Teaching and the teaching profession in a digital world- Zambia

22 July 2022

Zambian constituents of the International Labour Organization have adopted a roadmap towards a human-centred digital future in education.

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The 2nd Employment Working Group G20 Meeting: “Improving the Employment Condition to Recover Together”

16 May 2022

The ILO supports the G20 Presidency of Indonesia which is committed to advocate collective action on three main pillars on global health architecture, sustainable energy transition and digital transformation.

Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank

Invest in a greener and more inclusive human-centred recovery ILO tells World Bank and IMF

21 April 2022

In statements to the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, emphasized the urgency of fostering a human-centred recovery amid a fragile outlook for 2022.

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ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call: winning proposals from Ecuador and Comoros start their innovation journey

05 April 2022

Winning entries of the 2nd and 3rd Skills Challenge Innovation Calls were successfully launched in Ecuador and Comoros, with winning teams, partners and their networks expressing their commitment to support e-formality through skills development in Latin America and the Caribbean and around the prevention of forced labour through skills and lifelong learning in Africa.

Informal ministerial meeting of the Ministers of Labour (EPSCO)

The impact of digital and climate transitions on the labour market

15 February 2022

In a video statement to the EU labour ministers of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO), ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, addresses the “need to accelerate and to steer the transition to a greener, more sustainable, more digital economy”.

Skills stories

Strengthening digital TVET in Ukraine

10 February 2022

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Science, the ILO project, “E-TVET in Ukraine: Training continuity and modernization during COVID-19 and beyond,” helped to develop quality e-Learning solutions for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutes across the country.

Occupational safety and health in teleworking

Crucial changes needed to protect workers’ health while teleworking

02 February 2022

New analysis from the ILO and WHO sets out recommendations for safe and productive hybrid and teleworking.

2021 Labour Overview

ILO: After two years of the pandemic, labour market recovery has been insufficient in Latin America and the Caribbean

01 February 2022

With an unemployment rate of 9.6 per cent and one in two workers in informality, the region must face the prospect of a prolongation of the COVID-19 crisis in employment, says a new regional Labour Overview report by the ILO.

Digitalization and the finance sector

Improve the policy environment to reap the benefits of digitalization in the finance sector, says ILO

31 January 2022

A better framework would harness the full potential of technological innovation in the financial sector, which provides jobs for more than 50 million people, and help achieve decent work and sustainable enterprise development.

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Digital platform workers talk about their experience

12 January 2022

Find out about the world of digital labour platforms and the people who work on them, via our interactive map.