Bureau for Employers Activities

Bureau for Employers' Activities

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Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) represent a key asset in any society: its enterprises. Successful enterprises are at the heart of any strategy to create employment and improve living standards. EBMOs help to create the conditions for enterprise success by influencing the environment in which they do business and by providing services that improve their individual performance. As one of the three constituents of the ILO, EBMOs have a special relationship with the Organization. 

The Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) is a specialized unit within the ILO Secretariat. Its task is to maintain close and direct relations with Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) in member States, to make the ILO's resources available to them and to keep the ILO constantly aware of their views, concerns and priorities. 

ACT/EMP seeks to foster well-functioning EBMOs, which are important actors in shaping an environment conducive to competitive and sustainable enterprises, good governance, political and social stability, democracy and socio-economic development. ACT/EMP assists EBMOs in building strong, independent and representative organizations that respond to their members´ needs and challenges though its technical cooperation programme, which provides assistance to EBMOs in developing and transition countries. How to contact ACT/EMP

 

News and articles

Leadership training for Executive Council builds momentum in Vanuatu
Billboard Chamber of Commerce Vanuatu

Leadership training for Executive Council builds momentum in Vanuatu

A year of progress: Uzbekistan’s textile industry marks first anniversary of landmark labour agreement
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A year of progress: Uzbekistan’s textile industry marks first anniversary of landmark labour agreement

Highlights

Navigating Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) Financial Challenges
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Publication

Navigating Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) Financial Challenges

Business is not as usual: what Employers' and business member organizations (EBMOs) need to know
This way to social justice

Video

Business is not as usual: what Employers' and business member organizations (EBMOs) need to know

Publications

Navigating Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) Financial Challenges

Navigating Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) Financial Challenges

Skilling for future in PSEs: An ILO-SCOPE study on skills profiles in PSEs

Lifelong learning

Skilling for future in PSEs: An ILO-SCOPE study on skills profiles in PSEs

Women in Business: How employer and business membership organizations drive gender equality

Women in business and management

Women in Business: How employer and business membership organizations drive gender equality

Regions

Africa

Africa

Arab States

Arab States

Asia and the Pacific

Asia and the Pacific

Europe and Central Asia

Europe and Central Asia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean

Events and meetings

112th Session of the International Labour Conference
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3-14 June 2024

112th Session of the International Labour Conference

Business is not as usual: what Employers' and business membership organizations (EBMOs) need to know
Business is not as usual video

Employers' and business membership organizations

Business is not as usual: what Employers' and business membership organizations (EBMOs) need to know

Key areas of work

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Building effective employer and business membership organizations
Strengthened Employers Organizations

Building effective employer and business membership organizations

Enabling Environments for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE)
Roads

Enabling Environments for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE)

Women in Business and Management
Women in business

Women in Business and Management

Productivity and competitiveness
Productivity and competitiveness

Productivity and competitiveness

Transforming EBMOs into data-driven organizations
Data driven organizations

Transforming EBMOs into data-driven organizations

Videos

What is the role of ACTRAV and ACT/EMP in the ILO?
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What is the role of ACTRAV and ACT/EMP in the ILO?

Women in business: How employer & business membership organizations drive gender equality
 Women in business: How employer & business membership organizations drive gender equality.

Women in business: How employer & business membership organizations drive gender equality

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