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Youth, Women Among Most Vulnerable to Job Loss in Southeast Asia During COVID-19
Southeast Asia’s youth and women bore the brunt of job losses during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB)...
Most workers support vaccine and mask mandates for the workplace
According to a new survey, there is widespread support among workers across the world for workplace COVID-control mandates. On average, about three in four...
Workers with HIV-AIDS continue to face stigma, discrimination
“Myths and misconceptions” about HIV and AIDS continue to fuel stigma and discrimination in the workplace, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday.
Despite some improvement in people’s tolerance to the disease in...
Pandemic impact on jobs, worse than expected: ILO
The jobs recovery is stalled worldwide and disparities between advanced and developing economies threaten the whole global economy, warned the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Wednesday.
The agency is projecting that global hours worked this year will be...
United World of Job Seekers and Job Creators Will Boost Recovery
Why is there so much disconnect between entrepreneurial thinking and bureaucratic thinking? Has the world of education, certification, occupation divided us, have the organizational...
The Covid After-Effects and the Looming Skills Shortage
The shock of the pandemic is changing the ways in which we think about the world and in which we analyze the future trajectories...
Cotton sustains more than 100 million families worldwide
A single metric tonne of cotton provides jobs for five people on average, often in some of the world’s most impoverished regions; that adds up around 100 million families across the globe.
To...
Why Are Downtowns Causing Climate Change?
Across the world, so long all roads lead to downtowns, forcing over billion cars to go spinning in and out daily causing climate change as...
Italy: Pro-growth reforms and government support key to a greener and jobs-rich recovery
The post-COVID recovery offers an exceptional opportunity for Italy to tackle long-standing obstacles to job creation and the raising of living standards, according to...
Future of Work: The Nouveau Occupationalism
Future is about technology. Technology is about saving humankind from the daily grinds. Work is about our body moving boxes now replaced by robots. Thinking...