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How is AI reshaping entry-level jobs for young people?
From gaps between education and labour market needs to technological change, the ILO Future of Work podcast explores the challenges facing young people in accessing decent work.
🎧Listen: ow.ly/GAEz50ZZYJR
New country studies from Ethiopia, Ghana, Lebanon, the Maldives, Senegal and Sri Lanka confirm the serious and lasting impact of heat stress on workers, enterprises, economies and societies.
Read more: ow.ly/5yak5102lwB
15 years ago, @ilo Convention No. 189 established international standards for decent work for domestic workers.
Yet new ILO estimates show that millions still work informally, often without effective labour and social protection.
Learn more: ow.ly/vOef5101AT9 #RatifyC189
International Labour Organization retweeted
By 2030, the number of care recipients is predicted to reach 2.3 billion.
💙 Everyone deserves access to quality care — and care workers deserve respect, protection, fair pay, and #DecentWork. 🤝
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#DayOfCareAndSupport
Domestic work is overwhelmingly performed by women: 77% of domestic workers worldwide are women.
Valuing this work means advancing decent jobs and effective protection.
Read more: ow.ly/RcKx5101fB3 #RatifyC189
Long working hours remain widespread: 35% of domestic workers work 49 hours or more a week, new ILO estimates show.
Reasonable hours and rest are essential to #DecentWork.
New estimates: ow.ly/Oacq5101fA9 #RatifyC189
🔴 LIVE NOW!
Join @ilo @UNHumanRights @UN_Women as we mark the International Day of Care and Support and put the rights of care workers at the heart of the conversation.
Watch live 👇
ow.ly/Ltr650ZWaC8 #CareAndSupportDay
International Labour Organization retweeted
Sweden committed to continue to combat all forms of discrimination, violence and harassment in the workplace and promote a safe and healthy work environment for all. @ilo @arbetsmarkdep @SweMFA #ILO
I warmly welcome Sweden’s ratification of @ILO Conventions on Violence & Harassment and Safe & Healthy Working Environments.
Together they reinforce our shared commitment to a world of work where everyone can work in safety, dignity, and respect, free from violence & harassment.
ALT ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, stands next to Ambassador Magnus Hellgren, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations Office in Geneva, as they hold the documents of ratification. Photo: ILO/Ndiaye
International Labour Organization retweeted
I am deeply saddened by the news of the railway accident in Spain. My thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones and those injured.
ILO commends the ongoing efforts of rescue workers and stands in solidarity with its Spanish constituents, the people and Gvt of Spain.
Investing in care and support advances gender equality and social justice.
#CareAndSupportDay #DecentWork #SocialJustice
She couldn’t find the childcare she needed. So she created it.
On #CareAndSupportDay, meet Mariana Grigorenco, whose childcare business in #Moldova helps parents return to work, with support from @ilo training and a grant.
Her story: ow.ly/yjBF5101AOh
On #CareAndSupportDay, the @ilo calls for investment in comprehensive, rights-based care and support, and for all care workers to be adequately protected and remunerated.
It’s time to make decent work a reality for all care workers.
On International Day of Care and Support, let us commit to make decent work a reality for all care workers.
Care work, including domestic work, is essential for our societies and our economies.
And all care workers deserve decent work, dignity, and respect.
#CareAndSupportDay
International Labour Organization retweeted
I warmly welcome Sweden’s ratification of @ILO Conventions on Violence & Harassment and Safe & Healthy Working Environments.
Together they reinforce our shared commitment to a world of work where everyone can work in safety, dignity, and respect, free from violence & harassment.
ALT ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, stands next to Ambassador Magnus Hellgren, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations Office in Geneva, as they hold the documents of ratification. Photo: ILO/Ndiaye
Domestic workers earn, on average, just 53.3% of the monthly wage of other employees, new @ilo estimates show.
Valuing domestic work means paying fairly and strengthening wage protection.
Read more: ow.ly/B3mZ5101fus #RatifyC189
International Labour Organization retweeted
Domestic workers “[make] millions of lives possible.”
Yet in 2025, four in five domestic workers worldwide were informally employed, according to @ilo. They are twice as likely as other employees to lack effective labour and social protection.
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How is heat stress affecting jobs and productivity?
Join us on 29 October for findings from six country studies on its current and future impacts on the world of work.
➡️ow.ly/jpjB50ZZfiE #ClimateChange
It’s time to turn recognition into action for care workers.
This #CareAndSupportDay, join @ilo @UNHumanRights and @UN_Women to explore the way forward.
📅 29 October
🔗 ow.ly/BHGi50ZVip0
International Labour Organization retweeted
Our latest data show progress in reducing informality among domestic workers but 4 in 5 still work informally, often without effective labour and social protection.
I urge all Member States to ratify and implement @ILO Convention 189 to advance decent work for domestic workers.
International Labour Organization retweeted
60M people work for nature-based solutions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems.
Let's take action for nature & create opportunities for decent work by implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
If we value care, we must value those who provide it.
Women make up over three quarters of domestic workers and face particularly low pay and demanding hours, according to new @ilo data: ow.ly/yWNh5101fkn
#RatifyC189
