The International Labour Organization (ILO) has revised upward its unemployment projections in its May Global Employment Trends - Update (pdf). For more inforamation, see the ILO news release.
UN Pulse Permanent Link: ILO unemployment projectionsA Review of International Labor Organization Databases Accessible on the Web
by Stuart Basefsky, MLIS
Martin P. Catherwood Library, School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University
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ILO Databases
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/dblist.htmILO databases are available in the following subject areas and nearly all of them are free and unrestricted.
+ Country and Regional Information
+ Labour Legislation
+ Labour statistics
+ Occupational safety
+ Social security
+ Terminology
+ Vocational training and rehabilitation [Disabilities]
+ World of workMicrofinance is the provision of financial services to the poor on a sustainable basis. Financial services that the working poor need and demand include different types of credit, savings, guarantees, insurance, transfer payments, remittances and other transactions. Microfinance is addressed to the poor and those excluded from market transactions. It seeks to broaden and deepen the market by emphasizing that ultimately microfinance institutions have to be sustainable, i.e. self-financing.
Microfinance that is oriented towards decent work is “social” finance. This emphasizes the finality and unique angle of the ILO’s interest and involvement. Social finance is the ILO’s accepted and recognized brand in this field, signalling its distinctive position and identity, andcommunicating to donors and the outside world in general the ultimate purpose of the ILO’s conceptual and policy work on microfinance.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/resource/subject/microf.htmThe International Labour Organization (ILO) recently issued World of Work 2008: Income inequalities in the age of financial globalization (full text, pdf, 1.4 MB). According to the report, income inequality grew dramatically in most regions of the world over the past decade and is expected to increase due to the current global financial crisis. The cost of the financial and economic crisis will be borne by people who haven’t shared in the benefits of recent growth.
UN Pulse Permanent Link: World of Work 2008
The International Labour Conference has adopted a declaration and resolution on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (full text of drafts adopted, pdf, 193 KB). According to the ILO press release,
"Through
the Declaration governments, employers and workers from all member States call
for a new strategy to sustain open economies and open societies based on social
justice, full and productive employment, sustainable enterprises and social
cohesion. The Declaration acknowledges the benefits of globalization but calls
for renewed efforts to implement decent work policies as the means to achieve
improved and fair outcomes for all."
UN Pulse Permanent Link: Social Justice for Fair Globalization
UN Pulse Permanent Link: Workers in the Occupied Territories
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has issued a new report, SHARE report: Saving lives, protecting jobs (full text, pdf, 3.74 MB). SHARE, the Strategic HIV/AIDS Responses in Enterprises, is an ILO programme that aims to implement the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDs and the world of work through overcoming discrimination, changing behaviour and facilitating access to services and treatment. UN Pulse Permanent Link: HIV/AIDS and the workplace
The latest report of the
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Key Indicators of the Labour Market Fifth Edition analyses national
labour markets and presents the current trends in and relations between the
productivity and poverty levels and decent work deficits.
To download the report, visit the ILO Web site. UN Pulse