Major publications
Arab States Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2024: Promoting social justice through a just transition
Preventing and addressing violence and harassment in the world of work through occupational safety and health measures
The report addresses the widespread issue of violence and harassment in the workplace and emphasizes the need for comprehensive measures, including international conventions and safety protocols, to combat these challenges globally.
The road to decent work for domestic workers
Report
Global Employment Policy Review 2023: Macroeconomic policies for recovery and structural transformation
The second edition of the Global Employment Policy Review (GEPR) focuses on the issue of employment-centred macroeconomic policies for recovery and structural transformation.
Joint report
Experiences of violence and harassment at work: A global first survey
The report is the first attempt to provide a global overview of people’s own experiences of violence and harassment at work, including its main different forms – be it physical, psychological or sexual – and respondents’ experiences with disclosing such occurrences.
Full report
Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work
Labour markets are recovering from the COVID-19 crisis in Asia and the Pacific, but now face new challenges like inflation and geopolitical tensions. The report gives the regional labour market context and makes a first-time assessment of regional sectoral estimates to highlight which sectors are growing as sources of jobs, which are shrinking and which harbour opportunities for “decent work”.
Summary
Greening Enterprises: Transforming processes and workplaces [Summary]
Report
Greening Enterprises: Transforming processes and workplaces
Report
Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage
This report was produced through a collaboration between the ILO, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration.
Report
Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022: Investing in transforming futures for young people
Incorporating the most recent labour market information available, Global Employment Trends for Youth sets out the youth labour market situation around the world. It shows where progress has or has not been made, updates world and regional youth labour market indicators, and gives detailed analyses of trends and issues facing young people in the labour market.
Care at work: Investing in care leave and services for a more gender equal world of work
The report provides a global overview of national laws and practices regarding care policies, namely maternity protection, paternity, parental and other care-related leave policies, as well as childcare and long-term care services.
Book
The future of diversity
This book offers new perspectives on the concept of diversity and the role diversity can play in the future world of work.
Report
Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Progress and prospects ten years after the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)
This report assesses the working conditions of domestic workers ten years after the adoption of Domestic Workers Convention in 2011. It highlights the progress made over a decade, as well as the remaining legal and implementation gaps, and provides guidance on policies that can pave the way to make decent work a reality for domestic workers.
Working from home: From invisibility to decent work
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world’s workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades.
First edition
Global Employment Policy Review 2020: Employment Policies for Inclusive Structural Transformation
The Global Employment Policy Review (GEPR) examines trends in employment policies while at the same time presenting new and innovative solutions to the challenges of policy design and implementation. In this first edition, the report focuses on the issue of structural transformation.
Report
Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020: Technology and the future of jobs
Incorporating the most recent labour market information available, this report sets out the youth labour market situation around the world.
Skills and jobs mismatches in low- and middle-income countries
Report
Working on a warmer planet: The effect of heat stress on productivity and decent work
Report
Working conditions in a global perspective
This report provides a comparative analysis of job quality covering approximately 1.2 billion of the world’s workers in the EU28, China, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, the United States (US), Spanish-speaking Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama), Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
Report
A quantum leap for gender equality: For a better future of work for all
This report is the culmination of the extensive and often ground-breaking work undertaken in the ILO’s Women at Work Centenary Initiative. It is closely aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.