On 5 December 2014, Turkey notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 5 December 2014 a safeguard investigation on “transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus (cellular) portable telephone”.
The new edition of the ILO’s Global Wage Report reveals a substantial gender wage divide across a sample of 38 countries, and calls for equal pay for work of equal value to ensure inclusive growth for all.
The ILO Global Wage Report 2014 warns of stalled wages in many countries and points to the labour market as a driver of inequality. Senior ILO Economist, Patrick Belser explains. (Closed captions available)
Wage growth around the world slowed in 2013 to 2.0 per cent and has yet to catch up to the pre-crisis rates of about 3.0 per cent, according to the ILO's Global Wage Report 2014/2015. A modest wage growth was driven by some emerging economies where wages increased by 6.7 per cent in 2012 (...)
Agriculture negotiators speaking in a 4 December 2014 meeting of the full WTO membership welcomed the previous week’s General Council decision unblocking work on the current talks and pledged renewed energy to meet two deadlines in (...)
As in other parts of the world, Arab countries have seen an increase in – mainly female – migrant domestic workers, who have become the primary care providers in the household. This is the result of many contributing factors including the lack of affordable and well-regulated social care (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in his address to the African Union Conference of Ministers of Trade on 4 December in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said that African nations stand to benefit from the recent WTO decisions on the Bali agreements, including on the Trade Facilitation Agreement, which (...)
The government of Germany has pledged a donation of EUR 1 million (CHF 1,202,000) to the WTO Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund for 2014. This donation will finance a wide range of trade-related technical assistance activities to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) to (...)
برگزاري كارگاه آموزشي 2 روزه توسط كانون عالي انجمنهاي صنفي كارفرمايي ايران پس از سلام، همانگونه كه مسحتضريد كانون عالي انجمنهاي صنفي كارفرماياي ايران با دعوت از آقاي آرنوت دي كاسنر مدير بخش كارفرمايي مركز تورين (ACT EMPT) (زير مجموعه قسمت امور كارفرمايي سازمان بينالمللي كار) مستقر در تورين - ايتاليا، و گوتابا داساناياكا، كارشناس (...)