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Barbados National Symposium

Just Transition and job creation in the green and blue economy - Drivers, status, considerations and pathways for a just and environmentally resilient future in Barbados

The Symposium targets policy officials and technocrats, private sector actors, labour, academia, NGOs, CBOs, and experts within the just transition framework/value chain in Barbados with a particular interest in employment and labour market issues related to the green and blue economy.

12th ILO Caribbean Labour Ministers’ Meeting

Social justice - the foundation for sustainable Caribbean transformation

The Meeting will address global, regional, and national actions required to accelerate the mainstreaming of social justice for transformative socio-economic development in the current multi-crisis context.

Training workshop on labour inspection strategies: Innovations in planning and implementation for modernization and sustainability

Capacity building workshop on child labour - Trinidad and Tobago

Communication with children at risk of/ in situations of child labour

The workshop will cater for up to 35 officials from the Mol Labour Inspectorate Unit, OSHA, Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) and Children’s Authority.

Zoom Webinar

International labour standards and the ILO Supervisory Mechanisms: Webinar for Caribbean Trade Unions with a Focus on the Public Sector

Organized by the ILO in collaboration with Public Services International (PSI)

2nd ILO-JEF Virtual Seminar for Jamaica employers

Tax Administration: Compliance and Demonstration of Online Capabilities

This thematic virtual seminar organised by the Jamaica Employers Federation (JEF) with support from the ILO Caribbean Office, is the second in the series for November 2021.

1st ILO-JEF Virtual Seminar for Jamaica employers

Understanding the Occupational Safety and Health Bill 2021

The JEF has identified the OSH Bill and NIDS Bill as relevant and priority items on the current national legislative agenda and has agreed to collaborate with the ILO to organize and host a series of virtual seminars on these topics, as part of technical capacity building of its executive and staff, and for information and education of its membership.

Webinar on the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190)

Eliminating violence and harassment in the world of work in the Caribbean

The ILO is now embarking on a global campaign to build support for C190. The end goal is for the Convention to be ratified by legislative assemblies and implemented by governments around the world.

Webinar on “Protecting workers from shocks: (Un)employment insurance schemes”

As part of a series of knowledge sharing sessions under the Joint Programme, this webinar is designed to reinforce the capacities of participants on UI protection schemes. Critical aspects of design, financing and implementation will be discussed through presentations highlighting International Labour Standards on UI, good international practices, and Caribbean experiences. Participants will have the opportunity to make comments, share experiences and put questions to the panelists.

ILO Caribbean Resilience Project

Virtual Training on the Labour Market Contingency Plan (LMCP) and Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)

The virtual training, is aimed at reinforcing the capacities of ILO constituents and key stakeholders on understanding and using ILO developed templates for preparing an integrated LMCP in each country; and understanding PDNAs and how to conduct them, with particular emphasis on the Employment, Livelihoods and Social Protection Sector (ELSP) component.

ILO Caribbean Resilience Project

ILO Caribbean Resilience Symposium

The symposium is designed to ensure that the knowledge developed by the ILO Caribbean Resilience Project is widely accessible to regional decision makers, social partners, technocrats, and development practitioners for practical policy change, advocacy and resource mobilization towards greater Caribbean resilience.

COVID-19 and the world of work

OSH in the construction sector

The webinar will address the key issues related to OSH in the construction sector and will look into practical measures designed to help employers, workers and the self-employed in the construction sector work safely in times of COVID-19.

International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS)

E-discussions with social security organizations

Launch of Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Assessment Report: Jamaica

The Report identifies deficiencies in the conditions affecting the emergence and sustainability of women�owned enterprises and their capacity to access the necessary resources and support for sustainability and growth.

COVID-19 and the world of work

Creating a post-pandemic Future of Work in the Caribbean: Recommendations for achieving resilient labour markets

Registration is required to attend this Zoom webinar

ILO and the Ministry of Labour and Social Partnership Relations, Barbados, virtual training workshop

National Educational Seminar on Actions for Achieving SDG Target 8.7 – Eliminating Child Labour and Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2025

The training will include a mix of live, highly interactive, online sessions hosted via Zoom; and self-paced learning materials and discussion boards.

COVID-19 and the world of work

Strengthening the capacity of workers’ organizations in building back better: Advancing social dialogue for solutions

This meeting is to establish an in-depth virtual discussion roundtable on the importance of the fourth pillar, the existing conditions of social dialogue there are in the Caribbean during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially during the phase of building back better, while strengthening the trade union movement in light of the guidelines of the ILO Centenary Declaration.

ILO and the Ministry of Labour, Trinidad and Tobago, virtual training workshop

Training workshop on child labour for Labour Inspectors/Officials and Members of the National Steering Committee

The training will include a mix of live, highly interactive, online sessions hosted via Zoom; and self-paced learning materials and discussion boards.

International Youth Day 2020

#MyFutureofWork

Young people and their look to a future that is #postCOVID in Latin America and the Caribbean. What comes after the crisis? The International Labour Organization (ILO) is calling for an urgent conversation: we want to hear youth voices through social media and invite them to a large virtual meeting on August 12.

Virtual Roundtable (COVID-19 webinar series)

Saving jobs, creating new ones and making people more employable. Shaping good labour market policies for post COVID-19 response

This virtual roundtable will present some of the underlying principles and current practices on how governments and social partners can engage and undertake measures aimed at preserving jobs and creating new ones. It will also focus on how they can contribute to increasing the employability of people who have been dismissed.