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Skills

Skilled Workers Matter. The business case for addressing absenteeism and turnover in Myanmar's garment sector.

A study on absenteeism in the Myanmar garment industry is a contribution to the understanding of one of the important impediments to industry’s steady and continued growth: the high absenteeism and turnover rate of its workforce. Exploring the root...

Future of work

Automation and Digitization in the Myanmar garment sector. A review of the current situation and implications for market strategies,...

This study reviews the current situation and implications for market strategies, investment and skills policies associated with increased automation and technological changes. It recognizes the imperative to act with the goal of shaping a fair,...

Skills

All Aboard! On-Boarding Training Package for Workers in Myanmar Garment Factories.

All Aboard is an induction tool kit for new garment industry workers. It will help Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA) and its members to set up an induction or on-boarding programme at the factory level

Future of work

Voluntary Labour Compliance Assessment for Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association

This tool is a checklist of compliance points with Myanmar labour laws and some elements of the International Labour Standards. The VLCA will provide a thorough, yet non-intrusive assessment of all the aspects related to labour compliance ranging...

Baseline Report: Siraye: Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization

This brief represents a summary of a baseline report prepared and written by Girum Abebe, Gebeyehu Manie and Tigabu D. Getahun of the Policy Studies Institute

Policy Brief

Discussion Note for Policymakers: Interregional dialogues on migration involving countries in the Middle East and Africa

Migration from African countries to the Middle East is increasing. While Egypt continues to dominate the stock of African migrant workers in the region, particularly in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, emerging yet fragmented data...

ILO Working paper 1

"System needs update":Upgrading protection against cyberbullying and ICT-enabled violence and harassment in the world of work

The term ‘cyberbullying’ has been used to describe aggressive conducts carried out through information and communication technologies (ICT), and can involve picture/video clips, emails, or social network sites, among others.

Factsheet

Labour commitments under EU-Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement

A case study of the ILO-UNHCR Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS) in Jijiga, Ethiopia

Building inclusive markets for refugee and host communities

Developing a New Industrial Relations Framework in respect of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (NIRF...

The ILO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific is seeking expressions of interest from a team of experts or from qualified Individual as team leader together with a national consultant as part of the team to conduct an independent final...

Building inclusive markets for refugee and host communities

RBCLAC Proyect

Key messages of the International Instruments Brochure

RBCLAC Proyect

Promotional Project leaflet

Equal pay for work of equal value

Understanding the gender pay gap

The gender pay gap is a measurable indicator of inequality between women and men. Even when women advance to higher paying jobs in management, the gender pay gap is frequently found. This brief examines the causes behind the gender pay gap.

Thematic or issue brief

Women in business and management: How employer and business membership organizations can accelerate the business case for change

Many companies around the world are introducing measures and building the knowledge base on how to advance women in business and management. Business membership organizations have a key role to play in guiding and mobilizing their members, be they...

Thematic or issue brief

Overcoming gender segregation

An explanation to the persistence of the “glass ceilings” in companies are the so-called “glass walls”. These walls epitomise gender segregation within management occupations, as well as in business sectors, mirroring the segregation in the labour...

Sectorial profiles

Women in business and management: Sectorial snapshots

2019 Third-party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

Code of Conduct for Cambodian Private Recruitment Agencies

Fact sheet - Implementing the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention No. 169: Towards an inclusive, sustainable and just future