ILO in the media
2013
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World Radio Switzerland
Rising unemployment trends are back, says ILO
22 January 2013
There are 197 million unemployed across the world and nearly 40 million people have given up searching for work. And the under-25 age group is the hardest hit in Europe and across the globe. The ILO's Director-General Guy Ryder talks to Tony Ganzer of Swiss radio's English service WRS, about these employment trends and how to get people back to work.
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BBC World Service
Long-term youth unemployment a growing problem, says ILO
22 January 2013
With unemployment on the rise again, young people have been worst hit, with nearly 13% of people between the ages of 15-24 unemployed globally. The ILO Chief of Employment Trends, Ekkehard Ernst, spoke to BBC World Service about the problem of long-term unemployment for young people and the benefits of apprenticeship schemes.
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BBC Business Report
Unemployment set to rise again, warns ILO Director-General
22 January 2013
The worst of the financial crisis is not yet behind us and global unemployment is still rising, says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder at a press conference for the ILO's Global Employments Trends 2013. The BBC cites report estimates that 5.1 million more people will become unemployed in 2013, and a further 3 million in 2014. The report also warns of an alarming skills mismatch affecting most countries, where employers can't find workers with the necessary skills.
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BBC World News
Disturbing rise in global unemployment, says ILO
22 January 2013
Global unemployment is on the rise again, according to the ILO's Global Employment Trends 2013 report. 4.2 million more people joined the unemployed in 2012, and another 5.1 million more are expected to become unemployed in 2013 . With consumers not spending, firms not investing and banks not lending sufficiently, the weakness in aggregate demand is having a negative effect on the labour market. Austerity programs have also limited opportunities for employment growth, says Moazam Mahmood, Director of the ILO Economic and Labour Market Analysis Department, in an interview with the BBC.
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Al Jazeera
Numbers of domestic workers have increased, but working benefits have not kept up, says the ILO
09 January 2013
The ILO estimates that 30% of the nearly 53 million domestic workers worldwide do not enjoy any legal protection, and 45% of them are not entitled to any weekly rest or paid leave. ILO's Malte Luebker told Al Jazeera English that Asia has the least protection for domestic workers and stressed the importance for those countries to ratify the newly adopted ILO convention on domestic workers.
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BBC Business Edition
The ILO calls for tough legal protection for domestic workers
09 January 2013
Only 10% of the world's 53 million domestic workers enjoy adequate labour rights. Over half of them have no legal limit on their working hours and do not receive a minimum wage. In addition, 45% of domestic workers worldwide are not entitled to rest periods. In a live interview on the BBC's "Business Edition", ILO's Martin Oelz, explained how domestic workers are more vulnerable to exploitation as their jobs are often not even considered as work and their workplaces are households beyond the usual reach of labour inspection systems. Oelz stressed that legal protection is key to achieve decent and better conditions for domestic workers.
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Bangkok Post
Force for labour
08 January 2013
During his visit to Thailand, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder talked to the Bangkok Post about Thailand’s 300 baht minimum wage, migrant workers’ rights and what motivated him during his career and campaign to lead the ILO.
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Euronews
Increases in child labour over past four years a worrying trend, says ILO
04 January 2013
Euronews reports on efforts to tackle child labour in Benin and India. Recent increases in child labour in Africa are a major concern, and despite progress in addressing child labour in South Asia, it remains the area with the greatest concentration of child labour globally. With 215 million child labourers worldwide and over half in the worst forms of child labour, ILO expert Patrick Quinn says we need to make more progress to get all children out of work and into school.
2012
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CNBC World Wide Exchange
ILO Chief: US needs 10 million new jobs to get to pre-crisis levels
10 December 2012
In the US, three million jobs are needed just to replace the pre-crisis loss, and additional seven million will be needed to absorb the people coming into the job market, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said in a special CNBC World Wide Exchange. Such ambition is required to go along with a better job creation, added the ILO Chief concluding that we will see quite a lot of employment relocation, especially in the manufacturing sector and that countries like the US need to be ready to exploit new opportunities as they arise.
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NBC
Wage growth still far below pre-crisis level, warns the ILO
07 December 2012
The continuing crisis is having a negative impact in the labour market in a number of ways, and particularly on the evolution of wages according to the ILO's Global Wage Report 2012-13. US television network NBC reports that wages grew at a lower pace than labour productivity over a decade in the majority of countries for which data are available.