India to collaborate with ILO on global skills gap mapping, future of workA tripartite Indian delegation, led by labour secretary Sumita Dawra, to the 112th International Labour Conference being in held in Geneva,...
10 Jun, 2024, 09.16 PM IST
India plans to shift from minimum wage to living wage by 2025Living wages – a minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs, factoring in key social expenditure by an individual such...
25 Mar, 2024, 06.07 AM IST
Govt to make unique identifier mandatory for construction workers: Labour SecyThe government will make unique identifier mandatory for construction workers nationwide, aimed at safeguarding migrant laborers' rights. L...
29 Nov, 2023, 04.01 PM IST
Technical and vocational training in many countries inadequate: StudyAccording to the report, the need for well-performing TVET is even greater today in the context of rapidly changing labour markets and evol...
14 Jul, 2023, 03.32 PM IST
Global unemployment to fall to 5.3%; low-income countries fall back in recovery process: ILOILO projects that low-income countries in Africa and the Arab region are unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels of unemployment this ye...
31 May, 2023, 08.57 PM IST
Election of new ILO chief wide openObservers say that former Togo prime minister Gilbert Houngbo appears to be in a strong position, with backing from most of the Africa and ...
25 Mar, 2022, 02.39 PM IST
Qatar not reporting all work-linked deaths, ILO saysQatar is not adequately investigating and reporting worker deaths including unexplained fatalities among seemingly healthy labourers, the I...
19 Nov, 2021, 02.50 PM IST
India recommends ILO member nations to adopt labour standards“Member countries should adopt labour standards of ILO in respect of work from home options keeping in view the emerging pandemic and incre...
25 Jun, 2021, 09.28 PM IST
One in six young people out of work due to pandemic: ILO“The COVID-19 economic crisis is hitting young people, especially women, harder and faster than any other group,” ILO director general Guy ...
27 May, 2020, 08.39 PM IST
International Labour Organisation writes to PM Modi, says India should uphold labour lawsThis comes after 10 central trade unions lodged a joint complaint with the international body over some BJP-ruled states allowing complete ...
25 May, 2020, 09.04 PM IST
International Labour Organisation outlines four-pronged strategy to address informal workers' woesThe ILO estimates that the lockdown measures across the globe will worsen poverty and vulnerabilities among the world’s two billion informa...
07 May, 2020, 09.46 PM IST
Unemployment in India lower than in China and Asia Pacific, says minister quoting ILO reportAs per the ILO report, unemployment rate stood at 3.5 per cent in India, against 4.7 per cent in China and 4.2 per cent in Asia Pacific, he...
03 Jul, 2019, 06.04 PM IST
Cabinet nod to anti-child labour ILO conventions historic: SatyarthiThe Cabinet approved ratification of ILO convention 138--Minimum Age Convention and Convention 182--Worst Form of Child Labour Convention.
04 Apr, 2017, 11.01 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi’s labour reforms gets thumbs up from ILOILO has estimated that 600 million new jobs will have to be created in the next 15 years to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Developmen...
07 Jul, 2016, 07.12 PM IST
Labour laws: Modi government's effort to unilaterally push through reforms delaying processMore than a year after coming to power, the National Democratic Alliance government is struggling to amend laws, especially labour legislat...
09 Sep, 2015, 03.02 PM IST
International Labour Organisation echoes unions' reservation against labour law amendmentsILO has put its weight behind trade unions in India which hold that certain proposed amendments to labour laws would go against the interes...
21 Jun, 2015, 12.47 PM IST
- Financial crisis could cost 20 million jobs by end 2009
The population of working poor living on less than a dollar a day could grow by 40 million and those on two dollars a day by over 100 milli...
20 Oct, 2008, 08.37 PM IST