Tag: ILO
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ILO raises alarm about global unemployment in 2024
Global unemployment is expected to rise in 2024, with growing inequality and stagnant productivity also a cause for concern on the economic horizon.
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Getting descent jobs in 2023 likely to be harder – ILO
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said finding decent and well-paid jobs is likely to be harder in 2023, thanks to the continuing global economic downturn.
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COVID-19 impact on jobs worse than expected- ILO
Jobs recovery is stalled worldwide, and disparities between advanced and developing economies are threatening the whole global economy, the International Labour Organisation warned on Wednesday. The agency is projecting that global hours worked this year will be 4.3 per cent below pre-pandemic levels, the equivalent of 125 million full-time jobs. This is a dramatic revision…
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Long working hours increasing deaths from heart disease, stroke – WHO, ILO
World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Monday, said long working hours led to 745, 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000. WHO and ILO stated this in a study published in Environment International Today. In a first global analysis of the…
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Avoiding a blind debate on the ILO and politics, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa IT was unfair, except for purposes of clarification, elucidation and mass education, for Nigerian human rights lawyer, Femi Aborishade, to engage in a debate on the International Labour Organisation, ILO, and politics with former Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Promise Adewusi who also incidentally, is a lawyer. This…
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COVID-19 Pandemic: 195 million jobs at risk globally – ILO report
A report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has predicted that the novel coronavirus [COVID-19] disease may wipe out as much as 195 million full-time jobs or 6.7 per cent of working hours globally in the second quarter of the year. The report highlighted some of the worst affected sectors and regions, and outlines policies…
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Nigeria and May Day in centenary of the ILO – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. The 2019 May Day is on Wednesday. May Day is both a distress call and a battle cry by workers. This year’s commemoration also marks the centenary of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which has become the universal symbol of Labour. But just as May Day was born in the quite bloody…
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Women have less access, take low-quality jobs – ILO report
In spite of notable progress on closing gender gaps over the past 20 years, women have less access to jobs, the World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends for Women 2018 Global snapshot, said. The report, released for the 2018 International Women’s Day, authored by the UN International Labour Organisation (ILO), said women were more likely…
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ILO projects unemployment, decent work deficit to remain high in 2018
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has projected that the global unemployment rate and decent work deficit will stay at persistently high levels in many parts of the world in 2018. ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said this in a report titled the “World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2018” in Geneva. He said the World Employment…
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Unemployment rate hits over 210m globally – ILO
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has said that over 210 million people are unemployed globally and that by 2030 the world would need 600 million jobs extra. Mr Luc Cortebeeck, Vice-President of Governing Body of ILO said this at the just concluded Training Course for Media Professionals on “Communicating Labour Rights” in the International Training…