What's new
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Digitalization of safety at work
Laying the foundation for safer workplaces in Moldova - Labour Inspectorate and ILO launch a new IT platform on work accident reporting
08 December 2021
The Moldovan Labour Inspectorate with ILO assistance developed a new IT-platform for reporting work accidents. This new platform should help the country to overcome the widely spread underreporting of work accidents. Current statistics report a rate of non-fatal work accidents that is 20 times lower than in the EU.
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Western Balkans and the EU Enlargement Standstill
Three essential questions: Interview with Florian Bieber, Director, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz
30 November 2021
In the fifth issue of short interviews with important researchers and practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe on burning questions concerning labour and social policies, we talked to Florian Bieber, Professor and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz and Coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG). We asked him how to make the EU accession of Western Balkans faster and more inclusive.
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ILO Performance at a Glance
Main donors confirm ILO’s improved performance
29 November 2021
A new assessment of the ILO done by a network of its main donor countries recognizes the significant progress of the organization. The comprehensive assessment done over a period of 18 months also included a survey among ILO partners from 16 beneficiary countries including Moldova and Ukraine.
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Impact of the Pandemic on Employment and Wages
Three essential questions: Interview with Maryna Tverdostup, Economist, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
16 November 2021
In the fourth issue of short interviews with important researchers and practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe on burning questions concerning labour and social policies, we talked to Maryna Tverdostup, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. We asked her about the uneven impact of the pandemic on employment and wages.
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ILO Beneficiary story
Elena never gave up and finally found a job she loves. A story of labour market inclusion of people with disabilities in the Republic of Moldova
12 November 2021
“There are many ways you can fulfil your dreams,” Elena believes, “regardless of bumps in the road along the way. Disability is an obstacle, a huge one, but the human spirit is resilient, and one has to keep going forward”. Read the story of Elena Epuri, a worker with a disability at Steinel Electronics in Chisinau, Moldova. She found a great job she loves because of the new Employment Law and a wage subsidy scheme created an opportunity for her. The ILO provided the technical assistance for these reforms and measures.
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Local Employment Partnerships
MEET THE PROJECT MANAGER: Amra Seleskovic, Technical Officer on Strategies for Local Employment Development
11 November 2021
In this video, Amra Seleskovic, Technical Officer on Strategies for Local Employment Development of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe shares details of the work she does to create new labour market opportunities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Local Employment Partnership II aims to reduce unemployment and ensure transition to formality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country characterized by high unemployment. The project, funded by the European Union, works with a unique methodology, wherein local authorities, employers, education institutions, public employment services and NGOs work together to identify the main local labour market issues and to jointly design programmes to address these issues. Local Employment Partnerships were launched in 2016 in BiH. In the current second phase, at least 1,600 people will benefit from job training programmes and 600 new jobs will be created.
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TVET in Ukraine
A virtual immersion into Vocational Training: Preparing students with the help of simulators
10 November 2021
67,000 TVET students in Ukraine will get access to virtual training simulating key technical processes in 4 occupations. The ILO supported the development of four virtual training simulators. These efforts are part of the plans of the Ministry of Education to modernize vocational education and the active integration of modern technologies into curricula in the COVID-19 pandemic context. Students of vocational education institutions will be able to immerse virtually into work processes at a power plant, at sewing workshops, a restaurant’s hot shop, and a car diagnostic and service station. Digital technologies can simulate quite realistically a real work environment, professional equipment and work processes. This allows students to train in a safe context and to internalize work procedures more effectively. All these new learning technologies are available for students through the support of the ILO project “E-TVET in Ukraine: Training continuity and modernization during COVID-19 and beyond”.
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Our impact, their voices
How the nuns of Causeni, Moldova won an ILO business competition?
09 November 2021
This article tells the story of how the nuns of a rural monastery became beneficiaries of the ILO Local Employment Partnerships project, and how they revived their apiary and honey production business.
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New trade union services to workers
Information is power: new web application protects workers’ rights in North Macedonia
09 November 2021
The Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia (SSM) with ILO assistance developed a web application which enables reporting labour rights violations to trade unions and ultimately to the State Labour Inspectorate. Since its launch on 23 April 2021, 3000 workers received legal advice based on the 95 reports sent through the application, mostly in cases related to delayed salaries, overtime work, right to minimum wage, allowances and salary contributions. Meet Martina Angelova, one of the beneficiaries of the new platform.
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Latest labour survey data
Workers’ education level for their jobs: is it a match in South East Europe?
29 October 2021
Many people are working in jobs that do not match their level of education. At the same time, many employers claim to have difficulties in finding workers with the skills that they need to expand their business and innovate successfully. This phenomenon points to a significant disconnect between the world of education and the world of work.