Timeline of ILO in Central and Eastern Europe

Presentation | 21 May 2018
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    1993

    ILO office established
    in Budapest

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    1993

     

    The first tripartite conference ever held in Bulgaria

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    1995

    ILO brought together over 60 Trade union leaders to discuss the impact of multinational companies in the CEE region

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    1997-2002

     

    ILO established 5 local enterprise development agencies in BiH

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    2000

    Serbia restarted its ILO membership and signed all the 8 fundamental conventions

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    2001

     

    Ukrainian National Centre for Vocational Rehabilitation opened with ILO support

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    2003

    ILO contributes to amending
    Bulgarian labour legislation

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    2004

     

    First Decent Work Country Programmes
    signed in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina

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    2006

    ILO contributed to First National Reference System for Victims of Human Trafficking in Moldova

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    2010

     

    National Employment Strategy adopted in BiH

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    2013

    Moldova concluded social security agreements with countries hosting migrant workers

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    2015

     

    New Labour Code
    in Albania

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    2016

    2765 out of 3679 labour disputes settled by Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labour Disputes in Montenegro

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    2017

     

    First register of parafiscal burdens
    in Montenegro

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    2017

    25% membership growth of Employers Organisation in Moldova

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    2017

     

    Ukraine: ILO started largest project
    ever signed with a donor

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    2018

    The Local Employment Partnerships project trained 1600 people and created 550 new jobs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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    2018

     

    In North Macedonia, ILO put 5300 young, formerly inactive people into employment, education or training

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    2019

    The ILO community celebrated the centenary of the organization

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    2019

     

    Resource mobilization increased by 15% as compared to the previous biennium

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    2019

    Minimum wage reform in North Macedonia reduced inequality without hampering employment

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    2020

     

    Resource mobilization increased by 50 % as compared to the previous year

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    2020

    ILO reports show that working-hour losses caused by the pandemic are equivalent to 540,000 jobs lost in the Western Balkans

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    2020

     

    ILO cash transfer program for 450 dismissed female textile workers in Albania

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    2021

    6 Western Balkan economies signed up for the new EU/ILO Youth Guarantee Scheme

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    2021

     

    3000 workers covered by the online legal advisory services of Macedonian trade unions

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    2021

    120,000 additional unemployed registered as job seekers with the public employment service of Ukraine