News on informal economy (Employment promotion)

News

The dreams and reality of a waste picker

21 December 2016

During “The Potential of Cooperatives & the Role of Waste Pickers in the Recycling Sector” workshop in Ankara, Turkey, on 20-21 December 2016, ILO COOP spoke to Fehmi Celikok, a waste picker from Turkey, about his life as a waste picker

News

Step forward for waste pickers in Turkey

21 December 2016

A workshop “Understanding the Role of Waste Pickers and their Cooperatives in Waste Management and Recycling”, organized by the ILO and the Ministry of Customs and Trade was held in Ankara, Turkey, on 20-21 December.

News

ILO COOP NewsUpdate, Issue No. 6

20 December 2016

Non-standard forms of employment

Improving the quality of non-standard jobs helps women

19 December 2016

Non-standard employment is not spread evenly across the labour market. Women are more likely to be employed in non-standard jobs, especially in part-time jobs, as compared to men.

Panorama Laboral 2016

Unemployment increased sharply in Latin America and the Caribbean

15 December 2016

The average unemployment rate reached 8.1 per cent, according to the annual report. There are 25 million people who are looking for work without success. The quality of employment has also deteriorated because of an increase in informality and self-employment. The impact on young people is of particular concern.

Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators

Association of Individual and Organized Recovery in Local Economic Markets

08 December 2016

“Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators” is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, ILO interviewed Mr Samuel Le Coeur, a founder and the President of AMELIOR in France since 2012. AMELIOR’s case was presented at a seminar “The Potential of Cooperatives & the Role of Waste Pickers in the Recycling Sector” held in Turkey in December 2016.

Formalizing Domestic Work

New strategies to reduce informality in domestic work

05 December 2016

A new ILO report calls for a combination of incentives and compliance to reduce high levels of informality in domestic work.

Labour market regulation

Making non-standard jobs decent jobs

18 November 2016

Today there is greater variation in the labour market, with many workers in part-time, on-call, or temporary employment, in employment arrangements with multiple employers, or in disguised employment or dependent self-employment. The ILO refers to these arrangements as “non-standard forms of employment”.