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MOST OF WORLD LACKS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
ILO launches World Labour Report 2000
06-20-2000
Seventy-five per cent of the 150 million people unemployed around the world lack any unemployment insurance protection, says a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO)... more
Pioneering ILO Global Report Calls
For More Widespread Respect for Rights at Work
05-25-2000
“Intimidation, threats and even murder still await many workers who attempt to organize in a number of countries around the world,” says a new ILO report... more
Ninety Percent of World Excluded from Pension Plans
Problems Foreseen in Coping with Aging Populations and Diversifying Risk
04-27-2000
Some 90 percent of the world’s working-age population is not covered by pension schemes... more
WORLD MIGRATION TOPS 120 MILLION, SAYS ILO
67 countries are now major receivers of immigrants
03-01-2000
Far from reducing international migration flows – by moving products instead of people – globalization will give rise to increased migration pressures... more
Americans work longest hours among industrialized countries,
Japanese second longest. Europeans work less time,
But register faster productivity gains.
09-06-1999
US workers put in the longest hours on the job in industrialized nations... more
Despite Decade-long Reform Programs
Social Progress Risks Stalling in Latin America, Caribbean
Unemployment and Low Pay Persist
08-22-1999
Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean is rising fast and is expected to affect an average 9.5 percent of the region’s regular workforce this year... more
ILO to Consider Sweeping Universal Ban on Worst Forms of Child Labor
New legal instruments would require immediate action against slavery,
Sexual exploitation, sale, trafficking, and hazardous work by children
05-24-1999
The International Labour Organization (ILO), at its annual conference here in June, is expected to adopt a new international convention aimed at an immediate, universal ban on the worst forms of child labour... more
Small scale mining on the increase in developing countries
Health and safety risks imperil miners, women and children
05-16-1999
Small scale mining is expanding rapidly and often uncontrollably in many developing countries, employing large numbers of women and children... more
Asian Labor Market Woes Deepening
Unemployment, Poverty Up Sharply in Region
12-01-1998
The Asian economic crisis has worsened dramatically, with unemployment tripling in some nations... more
New encyclopedia lists main threats to worker health worldwide
11-13-1998
The International Labour Office (ILO) has published the latest edition of its Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety, which shows that workers today face many of the same dangers that existed in 1930... more
ILO World Employment Report, 1998
Global Financial Crisis Will Trigger Jump in World Unemployment
09-23-1998
The number of unemployed and underemployed workers around the world has never been higher... more
Sex Industry Assuming Massive Proportions in Southeast Asia
08-18-1998
Prostitution in Southeast Asia has grown so rapidly in recent decades that the sex business has assumed the dimensions of a commercial sector... more
Violence on the Job – a Global Problem
Taxi drivers, health care workers, teachers among those at highest risk
07-19-1998
France, Argentina, Romania, Canada and England have reported the highest rates of assaults and sexual harassment on the job... more
Worker Disability Problems Rising in Industrialized Countries
05-19-1998
Claims for disability benefits are surging in industrialized countries... more
More than 120 Nations Provide Paid Maternity Leave
Gap in Employment Treatment for Men and Women Still Exists
02-15-1998
More than 120 countries around the world provide paid maternity leave and health benefits by law... more
Child Labor Risks Growing In Africa
OAU and ILO Convene Tripartite Meeting
02-04-1998
The growing army of child laborers in Africa is expected to swell by at least one million new children per year... more
Women Making Progress in Management
But ‘Glass Ceiling’ Separates Women From Top Jobs
12-10-1997
American and Canadian women have made the most progress of all females worldwide in breaking through the “glass ceiling” to management positions... more
Africa Undergoing Economic Revival
Jobs Policy Can Ignite Further Growth
12-07-1997
Sub-Saharan Africa, long beset by economic adversity and civil disorder, is showing the first signs of an economic resurgence... more
ILO Highlights Global Challenge to Trade Unions
11-03-1997
Trade-union membership dropped sharply during the last decade... more
ILO UNITES WITH INDUSTRY GROUPS TO COMBAT CHILD LABOR
02-14-1997
The International Labor Office (ILO) today formed a partnership with the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with the goal of eliminating child labor in the soccer ball industry in Sialkot, Pakistan, during the next 18 months... more
Global Unemployment Crisis, Wage Inequalities Rising
Renewed International Commitment to Full Employment Needed
11-25-1996
Nearly one billion people around the world, approximately 30 percent of the entire global work force, are unemployed... more
Globalization Changes the Face of Textile,
Clothing and Footwear Industries
10-28-1996
The geographical distribution of production in the textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) industries has changed dramatically in the past 25 years... more
WOMEN SWELL RANKS OF WORKING POOR, SAYS ILO
Lower wages, longer hours, hinder women's progress
07-29-1996
Women work longer hours and are paid on average 25 percent less than men... more