Timeline of ILO in Central and Eastern Europe
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1993
ILO office established
in Budapest 1993
The first tripartite conference ever held in Bulgaria
1995
ILO brought together over 60 Trade union leaders to discuss the impact of multinational companies in the CEE region
1997-2002
ILO established 5 local enterprise development agencies in BiH
2000
Serbia restarted its ILO membership and signed all the 8 fundamental conventions
2001
Ukrainian National Centre for Vocational Rehabilitation opened with ILO support
2003
ILO contributes to amending
Bulgarian labour legislation2004
First Decent Work Country Programmes
signed in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina2006
ILO contributed to First National Reference System for Victims of Human Trafficking in Moldova
2010
National Employment Strategy adopted in BiH
2013
Moldova concluded social security agreements with countries hosting migrant workers
2015
New Labour Code
in Albania2016
2765 out of 3679 labour disputes settled by Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labour Disputes in Montenegro
2017
First register of parafiscal burdens
in Montenegro2017
25% membership growth of Employers Organisation in Moldova
2017
Ukraine: ILO started largest project
ever signed with a donor2018
The Local Employment Partnerships project trained 1600 people and created 550 new jobs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2018
In North Macedonia, ILO put 5300 young, formerly inactive people into employment, education or training
2019
The ILO community celebrated the centenary of the organization
2019
Resource mobilization increased by 15% as compared to the previous biennium
2019
Minimum wage reform in North Macedonia reduced inequality without hampering employment
2020
Resource mobilization increased by 50 % as compared to the previous year
2020
ILO reports show that working-hour losses caused by the pandemic are equivalent to 540,000 jobs lost in the Western Balkans
2020
ILO cash transfer program for 450 dismissed female textile workers in Albania
2021
6 Western Balkan economies signed up for the new EU/ILO Youth Guarantee Scheme
2021
3000 workers covered by the online legal advisory services of Macedonian trade unions
2021
120,000 additional unemployed registered as job seekers with the public employment service of Ukraine