DUBAI, UAE - International Labor Organization (ILO) Deputy Regional Director for the Arab States Peter Rademaker has confirmed that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region could create 10 million new jobs and accelerate GDP to 7.2 percent by 2050 via taking a serious approach to climate action. In...
Child labor on the rise for the first time in 20 years
He emphasizes the need to tackle the underlying causes of child labor by eradicating forced labor, ensuring safe and healthy workplaces, empowering workers to organize and voice their concerns, and eliminating discrimination, given that child labor predominantly impacts marginalized communities.
Global warming raises risk of heat-related deaths among workers
The Occupational Heat Stress conference in Qatar, which focused on climate change and how rising temperatures threaten workers' health, heard that tens of thousands of workers around the world have died from chronic kidney disease and other illnesses linked with extreme heat over recent decades.
Qatar Financial Centre, ILO collaborate to promote ‘decent labor standards’
Doha, Qatar - The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), a leading onshore financial and business center in the region, has partnered with the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Qatar to organize a roundtable on promoting decent labor standards in the supply chain. The roundtable featured speakers from the ILO and QFC...
UN says right environment policies can generate 20 million jobs
“It is critical that as we scale up the use of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) we make sure we do not also scale up decent work deficits, such as the informal work, low-pay and low productivity conditions that many workers in NbS currently face,” said Vic van Vuuren, Director, ILO Enterprises...
ILO says global crises will lead to a fall in labor market
The war raging in Ukraine and other overlapping crises are taking a toll on labor markets worldwide, the UN said, suggesting a "sharp" slowdown was already underway. In a fresh report, the International Labor Organization said the outlook for global labor markets has deteriorated in recent months. ILO warned that...
50 million people stuck in ‘modern slavery’: UN
The United Nations had set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030, but instead the number of people caught up in forced labor or forced marriage ballooned by 10 million between 2016 and 2021, according to a new report. The study, by the UN's agencies for...Global issues slowing down labor market recovery: ILO
Labor incomes have not yet recovered for the majority of workers. In 2021, three in five workers lived in countries where labor incomes had not returned to the level seen in Q4 2019. The gender gap in hours worked also grew during the pandemic.
Qatar, France look to enhance cooperation in labor
The deal was signed on Sunday, March 27, in cooperation with the International Labor Organization.
ILO selects Qatar as member of fair recruitment panel
Qatar is one of the five countries the ILO has as a member of the Advisory Committee of its Fair Recruitment Initiative. The move is said to have been made in appreciation of Qatar’s efforts and reforms undertaken in the labor sector.
UAE private sector asked to pay employees through Wage Protection System
The UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MoHRE) called on private sector establishments to commit to timely paying the wages of their workers through the Wage Protection System (WPS). "The establishments’ commitment to pay wages on time would enhance the stability of the contractual relationship between its parties, and...
