Workers and Employers Organizations in Asia and the Pacific

Trade union rally in Indonesia.

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The ILO’s tripartite structure is unique within the United Nations system and gives workers’ and employers’ representatives an equal voice with governments in shaping ILO policies and programmes. Social dialogue between these three parties underpins the ILO’s work, and the ILO helps to develop the capacity of these organizations so they can effectively support and represent their members.

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Key resources

  1. Workers and employers organizations

    Through their organizations, workers and employers make tripartism and social dialogue a real life experience by applying them in practice.

  2. Social Dialogue, Labour Law and Labour Administration

Latest news

  1. ILO supports industry-led skills development for Indonesia’s maritime economy through the pilot development of Sectoral Skills Committees

    31 May 2023

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    Trade unions join efforts to green Malaysia’s chemical and pharmaceutical industry

    30 May 2023

  3. Province of Central Java to establish a Joint Inspection Team for Labour Norms in fisheries sector

    29 May 2023

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Events

  1. Skills for the Indonesian Maritime Sector: The Strategic Involvement of Industries

    31 May 2023

  2. UK Skills for Prosperity Programme TVET Collaboration Dissemination Event

    23 - 24 May 2023

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    National Evaluation Workshop on Green Jobs and Just Transition in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry (Malaysia)

    10 - 11 May 2023

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Publications

  1. ILO Viet Nam’s 2022 Second-Half Update on the implementation of the EU-funded projects in Viet Nam

    19 May 2023

  2. Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) in Afghanistan

    01 May 2023

  3. Policy review on social security for domestic workers in Thailand

    28 April 2023

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Projects

  1. Quality Apprenticeship and Lifelong Learning in China – Phase 2

    1 February 2023 - 31 December 2025

  2. Promoting Gender Responsive Enterprise Development and TVET Systems (ProGRESS)

    1 October 2022 - 30 September 2027

  3. Reduced Vulnerability of Returnee Migrant Workers through Linkages to Employment Opportunities and Integration into Local Economic Development in Response to COVID-19

    1 April 2022 - 31 May 2023

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