The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Bratislava - Slovakia's jobless rate dropped to 10,1 per cent in the second quarter from 10.5 per cent recorded in the first three months of 2008, according to government data released Wednesday. Unemployment has been falling as foreign investors, mo...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
The Solidarity Community Network (SoliComm.net), a project of the Workers' Activities Programme (ACTRAV) of the International Labour Organization, has launched a search engine for union and union-related sites. Currently 300 of the world's largest labor websites areincluded in the SE's...
The Eagle (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
By ELAINE L. CHAO America is transitioning to a knowledge-based economy. The good news is it plays to a distinct advantage of the American workforce co ...
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The Workers' Activities Programme of the International Labour Organization has just launched a new search engine and communication device called SoliComm. Here's a description: The Solidarity Community Network (SoliComm.net) is a communications system designed especially for the labour movement. SoliComm...
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Via the UN's bird-flu page, a story from the International Labour Organization dated August 13: ILO organizes training for Thai businesses. Excerpt: Training to help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) protect their workers and businesses from future Pandemic Human Influenza...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Caribbean nations will establish national HIV/AIDS workplace policies as soon as a regional policy modeled after International Labour Organization guidelines is ready, the Jamaica Observer reports.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Some enterprises in Swaziland have been cited as leading examples in bringing the fight against HIV/AIDS to the workplace, according to a new film and report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), to be released Wednesday.
Stevie Wonder's Personal Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
THREE MONTHS AFTER CHINESE EARTHQUAKE, UN CONTINUES TO ASSIST RECOVERY New York, Aug 12 2008 3:10PM United Nations agencies are continuing to help millions of people rebuild their lives in south-western China, three months after the region was devastated by an earthquake that left more than 80,000 people dead or missing. The Wenchuan earthquake not only devastated lives and livelihoods, but also destroyed...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
In a research on where to put your cv when looking for a new job I stumbled upon a research "Global Employment Trends 2008" of the International Labour Organization. Reading this research I found an unemployment figure for last year, 2007, of 32.1 million in the "Developed economies and EU". hmm interesting I thought. So 32,1 mln don't have a job and might be looking for one... But how about the people...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Over 30,000 Liberian women and men have benefited from short-term employment opportunities generated by labour-intensive road rehabilitation projects across the country, a new study reveals.
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Steve Charnovitz (George Washington) has posted on SSRN his article in the American Journal of International Law: The ILO Convention on Freedom of Association and its Future in the United States. Here is the abstract: This paper addresses the status...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Prague - The Czech Republic's unemployment rate was down to 4.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2008, the lowest in more than 11 years, according to government data released Friday. The April-June reading, which was based on EU-wide International L...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Chinese groups and the International Labour Organization on Monday launched a three-year campaign that aims to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention among the country's migrant worker population in the provinces of Anhui, Guangdong and Yunnan, as well as the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China Daily reports (Guan, China Daily, 7/29).
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
) - In a district of the northeastern part of West Java, commercial sex workers are touting for business right outside the mosque. Bandungwangi, a local NGO working against trafficking, says half the women and children it rescues from prostitution in Jakarta come from this district. "The root of the problem is poverty, but in some areas - like that district [child protection agencies have asked that...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
President of the Sierra Leone Labour Congress (SLLC) Thursday appealed for a ratification of more labour laws adopted by the international labour organization.
