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  • April 1998 

    • Thai Premier Opens ILO Meeting on Social Crisis in Asia
      22 April 1998 - BANGKOK (ILO News) - Warning that "sustained development cannot co-exist side-by-side with social inequalities and the deterioration of our human resource," Mr. Chuan Leekpai, Prime Minister of Thailand has called for equal importance to be given to national and international economic and social development policies.
    • Changes in global employment in the postal and Telecommunications services
      20 April 1998 - GENEVA (ILO News) ­ Increasing competition from private enterprises, new means of communication, elimination of monopolies and the growth of such new media as the Internet pose major challenges to workers in postal administrations and telecoms around the world, and will prompt increasingly rapid changes in the nature of jobs held by millions workers world wide, especially women, according to a new ...
    • ILO calls for new policy responses to the crisis in asia
      15 April 1998 - HONG KONG (ILO News) ­ The pain inflicted on Asian societies will continue to grow in 1998 largely as a result of inadequate policy responses to the financial crisis, says the International Labour Office (ILO) in a new report offering a series of proposals aimed at mitigating its disastrous social consequences.

  • March 1998 

  • February 1998 

    • Nominations close for top ILO post
      23 February 1998 - GENEVA (ILO News) – Two candidatures were submitted for election to the post of Director-General of the International Labour Office as nominations to the ILO top job officially closed today.
    • Global employment in refining industry remains stable, but pressure on jobs grows
      23 February 1998 - GENEVA (ILO News) – Increasing competition, excess refining capacity and the mounting cost of investments needed to meet tightening environmental standards threaten the profitability of the oil refining industry and cast a shadow over the job prospects of oil refinery workers, particularly in OECD countries, a new ILO report says.
    • ILO Calls for More Democracy and Social Justice in Asia
      21 February 1998 - LONDON (ILO News) ­ Pointing to the huge social costs of the unfolding crisis in Asia, the Director-General of the International Labour Office, Mr. Michel Hansenne, has called on the governments of the leading industrial nations of the world to place the promotion of democracy and social justice at the heart of their international economic strategies.
    • More than 120 Nations Provide Paid Maternity Leave
      16 February 1998 - GENEVA (ILO News) – More than 120 countries around the world provide paid maternity leave and health benefits by law, including most industrialized nations except Australia, New Zealand and the United States, says a new report (Note 1) by the International Labour Office (ILO).
    • Conference calls for abolition of child labour in Africa
      07 February 1998 - KAMPALA (ILO News) – Delegates from 22 African countries called today on African countries to commit themselves to the total abolition of child labour as prescribed in the ILO Minimum Age Convention (No. 138, 1973) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. ...
    • ILO Director-General warns of "tragedy" of child labour in Africa
      05 February 1998 - KAMPALA (ILO News) – The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Mr. Michel Hansenne today called upon African nations to take urgent action to reverse the growing trend toward child labour on the continent and to take immediate steps to eliminate child labour in its most intolerable forms.
    • Child Labour Risks Growing in Africa OAU and ILO Convene Tripartite Meeting
      04 February 1998 - KAMPALA (ILO News) – The growing army of child labourers in Africa is expected to swell by at least one million new children per year if current economic and social trends persist, the International Labour Office warned today in a report prepared for a tripartite meeting of workers, employers and governments in Kampala, Uganda. ...
    • Fighting Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Workplace New Study Cites Problems and Solutions
      03 February 1998 - GENEVA (ILO News) – Moderate drinkers who have had "one too many" actually cause more alcohol-related workplace problems than their less numerous, but heavier-drinking colleagues. Many heavy drinkers have developed "a physical tolerance and social mechanisms", that mask the impact of their drinking behaviour, says a new report prepared for the International Labour Office.

  • January 1998 

    • Child Labour Meeting in Uganda Kampala, 5-7 February 1998
      23 January 1998 - GENEVA (ILO News) – The Organisation of African Unity with the active support of the International Labour Organisation is organising an international meeting on child labour in Africa, to be held in Kampala, Uganda from 5-7 February. The meeting is hosted by the Ugandan Ministry of Labour.
    • Cooperation Agreement between the IOC and the ILO
      19 January 1998 - GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have formally agreed to join efforts "in promoting social justice and human dignity" and in encouraging activities "which contribute to the elimination of poverty and child labour" around the world.

  • December 1997 

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