News on informal economy
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News
Domestic workers in Trinidad and Tobago moving toward enhancing sustainability of their cooperative
21 February 2018
The ILO partnered with the Service Workers Centre Cooperative Society (SWCC) in Trinidad and Tobago to organize a workshop to discuss concrete steps toward enhancing the sustainability of the cooperative.
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Future of Work Focus Newsletter
What can the past tell us about the future of work?
13 February 2018
As we look to the future of work, ILO Historian Dorothea Hoehtker tells us what we might learn from looking at the past.
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Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
Interview with Trebor Scholz – connecting cooperatives to the future of work, digitally
09 February 2018
"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, ILO interviewed Professor Trebor Scholz from The New School, a scholar and an activist who developed the concept of “platform cooperativism”.
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Promoting rural women economic empowerment through cooperatives in Upper Egypt
25 January 2018
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Tripartite conference in Tunisia on the role of Social and Solidarity Economy as a bridge to the formal economy
15 December 2017
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The 2017 edition of the ITC ILO Gender Academy includes an elective and a master course touching upon cooperatives
27 November 2017
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ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No. 8, September 2017
29 September 2017
This latest issue of the ILO COOP Newsletter highlights a number of recent events and developments on cooperatives.
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ILO pilots an orientation tool on cooperation in Cambodia
19 September 2017
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Towards better, improved employment-related social security in Indonesia
08 September 2017
Building greater trust among relevant stakeholders, optimizing benefits adequacy, re-profiling members of social security for workers as well as synchronizing existing regulations were the four recommendations from the joint evaluation seminar conducted by the ILO and the Ministry of Manpower in Jakarta on 7 September.
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Press release
Examining two-year implementation of social security for workers in the digitalization era
06 September 2017
Social security system for workers has been implemented for two years in Indonesia. This system covers four schemes managed by the Employment-related Social Security Provider (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) since 1 July 2015: the Work Accident Benefit, Death Benefit, Old-Age Saving Benefit and Pension.