News on International Labour Standards

In times of crisis, solidarity between government, workers and employers is paramount

Statement from ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and India about the evolving COVID-19 response mechanisms in India.

Maritime Labour Convention

Brazil ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Brazil became the 97th Member State of the ILO to have ratified the Convention.

COVID-19: Protecting Workers in the workplace

Managing positive mental health during COVID-19 pandemic in garment industry

The ILO’s Better Work Indonesia developed an online stress management training to create positive working and living environment for workers and management of garment industry during the COVID-19 outbreak.

ILO Policy Brief on COVID-19

Pillar 1: Stimulating the economy and employment

COVID-19 affects both the demand and the supply sides of the labour market and has huge implications for full employment and decent work, pushing many families into poverty, and increasing existing inequalities.

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Helping the “double casualties” of COVID-19

The spread of COVID-19 in fragile states riven by conflict and political insecurity, is turning millions of vulnerable people into double casualties of the pandemic.

COVID-19 in the maritime sector

Seafarers and fishers: Providing vital services during the COVID-19 pandemic

As many countries in the world marked Labour Day, the International Labour Organization called on governments to implement measures to protect seafarers and fishers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Private Employment Agencies can contribute to better working conditions

Private employment agencies should complement the rapidly changing labour market of Uzbekistan and play the role of catalysts for new forms of human resources management services and are called upon to make a significant contribution to improving...

Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Fact Sheet

The fundamental principles and rights at work derive from ILO Conventions and Recommendations, which set international labour standards on a broad range of subjects related to the world of work, including human rights at work, occupational safety...

COVID-19

Five actions you can take to mitigate the economic impact of COVID-19 on your business

Five actions that enterprises can take to ensure your business is in the best possible shape during and after COVID-19

Statement of the Officers of the STC on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Treat seafarers with “dignity and respect” during COVID-19 crisis

Seafarers, ship owners and governments are urging ILO member States to ensure the flow of essential goods, energy, food and medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19: Protecting workers

ILO Standards on COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - FAQs launched

Key provisions of international labour standards relevant to the evolving COVID-19 outbreak

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

New guidelines to help employers support families during COVID-19

New guidelines issued by ILO and UNICEF call on enterprises to do more to support working families during the pandemic.

ILO publishes infographics on the labour market situation of Syrian workers in Turkey

Based on data from the TURKSTAT Household Labour Force Survey from 2017, the infographics present numbers and characteristics of the Syrian labour force in Turkey.

Launch of first SCORE Alumni Network

ILO Pakistan launches its first SCORE Alumni Network event in Karachi through its European Union Funded ILES Project, recognises the completion of the SCORE short course by eight enterprises and certifies six national trainers in its SCORE project.

50 representatives from Government and Social partners gather to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector in Tanzania.

Participants to propose a three years programme to address the decent work deficits in the country

Following international child labour conference in the Netherlands, Jessie Chingoma plans to advocate for increased public funding for...

My name is Jessie Chingoma and I work as the Deputy Director of the Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MTCU), a national trade union centre that promotes the growth of the trade union movement in Malawi. MCTU currently has more than two dozen...

Forced Labour

Lithuania renews commitment to combat forced labour

Lithuania has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention becoming the 45th ILO member State to do so

Promoting key ILO conventions and fair recruitment guidelines related to labour migration in Ethiopia