Amid Gaza war, children now work so families can survive: ILO
Details of that development and the “unprecedented devastation” to the Palestinian jobs market and the wider economy beyond Gaza and the West Bank are outlined in a new report from…
Global unemployment to increase in 2024, warns ILO report
Just over five per cent of the world’s workforce is without a job, according to the International Labour Organization’s World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2024 report. This is a…
AI tools like ChatGPT likely to complement jobs, not destroy them: ILO
The study provides a global analysis of the potential exposure of occupations and tasks to generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the possible implications for job quantity and quality. It was…
Economic woes dash job prospects in low income countries: ILO
In its new Monitor on the World of Work report, ILO shows that while in high-income countries, only 8.2 per cent of people willing to work are jobless, that number…
ILO calls for fresh support as job losses grip post-quake Türkiye and Syria
Hundreds of thousands of workers in both countries have lost their livelihoods because of the earthquakes, preliminary findings showed in the new ILO assessments of the disaster’s impact on the…
Urgent investment needed to improve conditions for key workers: ILO
“In a number of countries, key sectors are facing labour shortages, because people are increasingly reluctant to engage in work which is not properly, adequately, fairly valued by society and…