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How to ensure decent work and job quality for essential workers
Whilst key workers generate considerable benefits and kept our societies and economies afloat during the pandemic, they lack decent working conditions. A joint Eurofound-ILO event discussed this.
ILO participates in Trinidad and Tobago Industrial Court Symposium
Event explored pandemic effects on policymaking, employers and workers
World Employment and Social Outlook
Ensure decent work for key workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how societies have undervalued essential workers, as well as the importance of giving such workers adequate pay and decent working conditions.
WESO Trends 2023
Economic slowdown likely to force workers to accept lower quality jobs
Faltering global employment growth and the pressure on decent working conditions risk undermining social justice, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2023 report.
Faltering global employment growth and the pressure on decent working conditions risk undermining social justice
According to the ILO report "World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2023", workers may be forced to accept lower quality jobs as a result of the economic slowdown, insufficient global employment growth and the difficulty of promoting decent employment may put social justice at risk.
New ILO report on working time arrangements
It looks at the two main aspects of working time: working hours and working time arrangements, and the effects of both on business performance and workers' work-life balance.
Working time around the world
Flexible working hours can benefit work-life balance, businesses and productivity
According to a new ILO report, innovative working time arrangements, such as those introduced during the COVID-19 crisis, can bring benefits for economies, businesses and workers, including greater productivity and improved work-life balance.
Working time around the world
ILO to release report on working time, working hours and work-life balance
Social justice
International labour standards as human rights
Tim de Meyer, Senior Advisor in the ILO’s International Labour Standards Department (NORMES), explains how rights and standards in the world of work are linked to human rights and why they are essential for establishing social justice and decent work for all.
Greening workplaces
Enterprises must be key actors in the green transition
Greening workplaces will play an increasingly important role in the green transition, as well as being an aspect of work life that matters greatly to both workers and employers.
ILO discusses the socio-economic impact of the pandemic in the European Parliament
At a hearing in the European Parliament, the Director of ILO-Brussels shared some key learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, and discussed how its socio-economic consequences can be tackled.
Greening workplaces
Enterprises must be key actors in the green transition
Greening workplaces will play an increasingly important role in the green transition, as well as being an aspect of work life that matters greatly to both workers and employers. Read the new ILO report launched during COP27.
ILO Monitor on the World of Work
Global labour market to deteriorate further as Ukraine conflict and other crises continue
Unemployment and inequality both look set to rise because multiple and overlapping economic and political crises are threatening labour market recovery worldwide, according to the latest edition of the ILO Monitor on the World of Work.
ILO Monitor on the World of Work
Global labour market to deteriorate further as Ukraine conflict and other crises continue
Unemployment and inequality both look set to rise because multiple and overlapping economic and political crises are threatening labour market recovery worldwide, according to the latest edition of the ILO Monitor on the World of Work.
Voices
How work gave me purpose after Beirut blast
On August 4, 2020, large parts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, were devastated by a massive explosion in the port. For Hani Baltaji, the rebuilding of a municipal police station has not only helped towards Beirut’s recovery, but also his own.
Part-Time Work
Kazakhstan ratifies the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175)
ILO Monitor on the World of Work
ILO: Labour market recovery goes into reverse
Recovery in the global labour market is threatened by multiple and interlinked global crises, as well as increasing inequalities, according to the latest ILO report on the world of work.
Better Work
Report shows rebound of Jordan’s garment sector amid ongoing labour concerns
Better Work Jordan’s 2022 annual report showed improving business conditions in the sector and progress on working conditions. Exports partially rebounded in the country’s garment sector from the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ILOSTAT blog
Over 2 million moms left the labour force in 2020 according to new global estimates
New global data covering 189 countries and territories expose the motherhood penalty faced by millions of women around the world in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Occupational safety and health in teleworking
Crucial changes needed to protect workers’ health while teleworking
New analysis from the ILO and WHO sets out recommendations for safe and productive hybrid and teleworking.