ILO Director-General points to growing awareness of the importance of employment-centred strategies to strengthen the recovery.

Agencies state that this would be a slight decrease in relation to 2012, owing to a slowdown in the labour participation rate.

Workers in Jordan’s Qualified Industrial Zones have held numerous strikes over the past years to protest against what they perceive as labour rights violations. A new collective bargaining [...]

With unprecedented levels of unemployment and declining investment, a new ILO report describes the socio-economic situation of the country as “critical”.

A new ILO report shows free trade agreements with measures relating to labour standards are on the rise and recommends measures to improve their effectiveness.