Migrant workers

Cost of recruitment in the Indonesia–Malaysia migration corridor: Employer perspectives from participating plantation companies

15 March 2022

This study looks into the recruitment costs borne by select companies that employ migrant workers in Malaysian palm oil plantations. It examines the companies’ roles and the processes involved in the recruitment of migrant workers; identifies the costs borne by these companies; and identifies good practices and areas for improvement.

Publication

A reference guide to the structure and governance of Employer and Business Membership Organizations

24 February 2022

This reference guide is a companion resource to the Onboarding handbook for board members of small employer and business membership organizations with the aim of providing specific examples and best practices of EBMO structures and governance around the globe. It is hoped that these insights will support EBMO to benchmark their own performance in these areas with a view to improving systems of governance and process efficiencies. It is anticipated that the resource will also be of value to EBMOs member companies with operations overseas and an interest in understanding and connecting with national or sectoral EBMOs in these locations. around three main elements: the workforce; the workspace; and wellbeing. We hope this will help employer and business membership organizations as well as individual businesses, achieving stronger recoveries, greater resilience and growth.

ILO Brief

COVID-19 and multinational enterprises: Impacts on FDI, trade and decent work in Asia and the Pacific

08 April 2021

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their supply chains have been heavily affected by the COVID-19 crisis, with millions of workers suffering adverse impacts. This brief provides evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on FDI and trade in Asia and the Pacific. The brief also discusses the impact on MNEs and decent work and highlights how social dialogue can inform the design and implementation of policies to ensure a human-centred recovery.

EU - ILO comparative review

Individual and collective dispute resolution systems - A comparative review

13 November 2020

The present report investigates specific individual and collective labour dispute resolution practices and institutions in a selected sample of countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The countries were selected to reflect broadly different legal and industrial relations systems with diverse forms and traditions of dispute resolution.

Publication

Assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the socio-economic situation in Uzbekistan: Income, labour market and access to social protection. Overview of crisis measures and ways to improve state policy

03 November 2020

This report was prepared by the joint team from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and national consultants from Republic of Uzbekistan.

Reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Convening actors to reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (CARING GOLD MINING PROJECT): Fact sheet

23 September 2019

The CARING Gold Mining Project’s overall goal is to increase to address child labour and working conditions issues in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) globally and in Ghana and the Philippines, its pilot countries. It does so by pursuing four outcomes, the first three to be carried out in the pilot countries and the fourth one on a global scale.

Publication

Local Resource-Based Approaches in Water Works

27 August 2019

The document brings evidence from 12 projects showing the approach in different stages of the project cycle focussing on water and sanitation, small dams; irrigation systems and adaptation works.

Social partners

The Role of Social Partners in the Nepal Peace Process

25 June 2019

New ACT/EMP report documents how leaders from trade unions and businesses, through their representative organizations, came together to build a new vision for Nepal: one of partnership based firmly on equity, fairness and dialogue after ten years of armed conflict.

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 59

The (missing) link between wages and productivity in the Philippines: What role for collective bargaining and the new two-tier wage system?

07 October 2016

ILO Research paper No. 16

Linking jobs in global supply chains to demand

18 August 2016

This paper presents evidence on the number of jobs in global supply chains for 40 countries, and explores in detail whose demand these jobs depend on in terms of countries and sectors. The paper documents the rapidly increasing number of jobs supported by production linkages between emerging economies, and provides evidence on the so-called servicification of manufacturing. Wage shares drop when a sector increases its participation in global supply chains as a supplier.