ILO's Director-General: In the media
February 2016
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CNN's "Quest Means Business"
Guy Ryder talks youth unemployment with Richard Quest
01 February 2016
40% of young people around the world don't work or work but are still stuck in poverty. Guy Ryder, the Director-General of the ILO, says growing economies remains the key to tackling youth unemployment.
January 2016
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Huffington post
3 Ways We Can Tackle Youth Employment
19 January 2016
October 2015
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CNN's "Quest Means Business"
Guy Ryder talks migration with Richard Quest
09 October 2015
The migration crisis in Europe highlights the challenge of integrating refugees into host countries. Guy Ryder, the Director-General of the ILO says integrating migrants into the labour force will be key to creating a win-win situation for countries and migrants alike.
July 2015
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CNBC Europe
Creditors need to focus on growth in Greece, says ILO Head
03 July 2015
Creditors need to focus on growth in Greece, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, told CNBC Europe. He added that there needs to be a proper conversation with the private sector, which is fundamental to the future of the country.
April 2015
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Al Jazeera America
Rethinking the employer-worker relationship
02 April 2015
The digital, on-demand economy has meant consumers can obtain all kinds of services, from across the world. As people connect directly with freelancers, there are implications for the traditional employer-worker contract that provides a guaranteed income and other social benefits. ILO Director-General Guy Ryder spoke to Al Jazeera America about the evolving employer-employee relationship.
January 2015
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BBC World Business Report
Action needed to tackle global unemployment, says ILO Head
20 January 2015
Three million more people will join the ranks of the unemployed in 2015, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, told the BBC. The global economy isn't growing fast enough, he said, to create the jobs that we need. The BBC reports on new ILO figures from the flagship report: "The World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2015", which shows that more than 212 million people will be out of work by 2019, up from the current 201 million.
September 2014
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CNN's "Quest Means Business"
Get jobs back to centre of agenda, says ILO chief
22 September 2014
Governments should put jobs at the centre of the policy agenda, said the ILO's Director-General Guy Ryder in an interview with CNN's Richard Quest. This includes putting in place active labour market policies, getting investment moving again, focusing on education, and finding greater consensus to tackle workplace disputes that affect jobs. The Director-General is attending the UN General Assembly and participating in several high level events about climate change, indigenous peoples and an ILO-Ford Foundation event on employment and Decent Work.
July 2014
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CNN's "Quest Means Business"
Inequality a drag on economic growth
07 July 2014
ILO's Director-General Guy Ryder discussed income inequality with CNN's Richard Quest, noting how the share of national income that goes to workers globally has gone down by 20 percentage points aggravated by tax policies that lead to less well off people paying more. Ryder praised those governments who are introducing minimum wages and called for businesses to raise salaries in order to keep business alive.
April 2014
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CNN's "Quest Means Business"
A sea change in inequality
11 April 2014
"Inequality is not the price to pay but the obstacle in the way of economic success, according to ILO Director General Guy Ryder, and that's a sea change in the way we think about it". He spoke to Richard Quest on CNN's Quest Means Business during the 2014 IMF World Bank Spring meetings in Washington DC.
February 2014
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CNN's "Quest Means Business"
Ending child labour: "We know what works"
27 February 2014
Ending child labour in the cocoa industry takes work on the industry, government and community levels and the ILO knows what works, according to ILO Director General Guy Ryder. Appearing on a special edition of CNN's "Quest Means Business", Ryder joined in a vigorous panel debate about CNN's "Cocoanomics" documentary. In it, Richard Quest visits the Cote d'Ivoire to see what progress had been made in fighting child labour in the cocoa industry.