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ILO calls for urgent Jobs Pact to tackle employment crisis
The Global Job Pact, designed to mitigate the impact of the financial crisis, was adopted by the Ministers of Labour, worker and employer representatives and other leaders in Geneva (June 15-17) during a Global Jobs Crisis Summit organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Faced with the prolonged global increase in unemployment and continuing collapse of enterprises, the Pact proposes a range of realistic and workable templates and strong support for an enhanced involvement of the ILO in the G20, in follow-up to its meeting in London last April which, with regard to employment and social protection.
The main objective of the Pact is to guide national and international policies aimed at stimulating economic recovery, generating jobs and providing protection to working people and their families.
At the same time, the Pact also emphasized the importance of public job-creation schemes such as infrastructure development, as well as help for the unemployed, training and skills development to sustain enterprises and to accelerate economic recovery.
The need for effective and coherent tripartite cooperation between governments, unions and employers was highlighted in the Pact, which demands the measures to be translated into national level, creating real jobs and contributing to economic recovery.
The Global Jobs Pact amounts to the most urgent and wide-ranging response to an economic crisis ever adopted by the ILO, which marks its 90th anniversary this year.
For more information, http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_108482/index.htm
