Women workforce safety & health issues likely to worsen
Even before the onset of the pandemic, gender equality in the workplace remained elusive. Yet, worldwide and across all regions and income groups, the pandemic has hit women's labour market opportunities hardest. This is likely to reverse some of
Managing Skill Development to Augment Workforce Safety
Many people are working in jobs that do not match their level of education. At the same time, many employers claim to have difficulties in finding workers with the skills that they need to expand their business and innovate successfully. This phen
Providing social protection to 4 billion workers globally
Despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected, a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report says. It finds that the pa
Mental wellbeing issues at a hybrid workplace
Mental health has become the concern of the ILO long before the COVID-19 was declared as a global pandemic in March last year. Grace Monica Halim, Technical Officer of the ILO Geneva, highlighted that mental health problems at work cost the globa
Safety of workers in the informal economy, migrant workers and the people with disabilities
The XXII World Congress on Safety and Health ended with a call for the international community to work together to find solutions to the millions of deaths, diseases and injuries that happen every year due to work. When considering general exposur
