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It’s World Day of safety and health at work!

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work (28 April) serves to raise awareness about occupational safety and health and gives us an opportunity to talk about the causes of work-related injuries, diseases, and fatalities, and measures to prevent them. This year, on Occupational Safety and Health Day, the focus is on the impact of climate change.

Guidelines for reinforcing the role of labour inspectors in addressing undeclared work

Regional Peer Review Report of the Labour Inspectorates of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (entity Federation of BiH-- Sarajevo Canton and entity Republika Srpska), Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia

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Meet the Technical Specialist: Magnus Berge, Workers' organisations

Magnus Berge, Technical Specialist of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe explains how the ILO assist trade unions so that they can promote better working conditions and rights for workers in the sub-region.

Migration

Shaping migration narratives: Insights from the ILO/OSCE E-MINDFUL project

The E-MINDFUL project, which closed in December 2023, developed evidence-based and action-oriented guidance, including innovative instruments, that can orientate future communication efforts on migration and migrants.

Data mining and machine learning: Supporting labour inspectorates to address undeclared work

Reflections on the introduction of Universal Labour Guarantee in selected Central and Eastern European countries

Workers’ representatives in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Filling a gap in labour rights protection or trade union competition?

Child labour

ILO supports an improved normative framework and better capacities to combat child labour in Serbia

The ILO project “Measurement, awareness-raising and policy engagement to accelerate action against child labour and forced labour” (MAP16) funded by USDOL generated critical knowledge to inform policies and supported concrete measures to address child labour in Serbia, also paving the way for further action.

Manual on grievance mechanisms

Staff news

Retrospective on challenges and successes - Interview with Markus Pilgrim, Director of ILO Central and Eastern Europe stepping down

Markus Pilgrim retires after long and successful service at the ILO. During his tenure as Director, the ILO Central and Eastern Europe Office managed to further raise its profile as a specialised technical agency on world of work issues and to expand its portfolio.

SERBIA NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR SURVEY 2021

This report presents the results of the first Child Labour Survey conducted by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia in 2021 with technical support from the International Labour Organization (ILO) through the MAP16 project. The survey is based on the latest international standard on child labour measurement and its main objectives are to estimate the prevalence of child labour and of hazardous child labour in Serbia.

Fact sheet

At a glance - SERBIA NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR SURVEY 2021

The factsheet presents the key results of the Child Labour Survey 2021 and provides an overview of the child labour situation in Serbia.

Trade unions

Workers’ rights in Europe in decline, says ITUC Global Rights Index 2023

In July 2023, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released its 10th Global Rights Index. The report paints a grim picture of workers’ rights around the globe. According to ITUC, Europe is no longer a bastion of workers’ rights.

ILO Budapest Newsletter 2023 July

The newsletter covers the support the ILO CEE Office gave to Ukraine during the war, recent results in Albania, the Youth Guarantee in the Western Balkans, and new projects recently signed by the office. It is an important development that the Office also serves Georgia as of July 2023. In addition, we introduce fresh publications and newly joined staff.

Youth employment

VIDEO Meet the Manager: Quick intro on the Youth Guarantee in the Western Balkans

Daniela Zampini, Senior Employment Specialist of ILO Central and Eastern Europe explains what the Youth Guarantee is and how this policy framework ensures that young people up to the age of 30 integrate into the labour markets of the Western Balkan economies.

Publication

A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining

ILO Budapest Newsletter 2023 March

This issue, among others, reports on the ILO response to the crisis in Ukraine caused by the aggression of the Russian Federation, after one year of war. The newsletter also introduces programme results and new projects, including an EU- and SIDA-funded 5-million EUR project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and new collaborations with SECO and GIZ. Fresh publications and new staff are also featured in the newsletter.

Decent work outcomes in supply chains

Fair global supply chains: In Serbia, ILO and GIZ collaborate to improve grievance mechanisms

Violations of human rights, as well as social and environmental standards continue to occur in global supply chains. Workers are often unable to report breaches of labour rights or industry practices detrimental to occupational safety and health. The Initiative for Global Solidarity of Germany wants to change this by developing complaint mechanisms in German companies’ supply chains. The ILO, with support from German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), will work on improving the system of mediation and grievance in Serbian enterprises.

Three essential questions

What are the proven means to reduce informality?

In our series of interviews with leading researchers, economists and policymakers, we interviewed Professor Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, Romania on how informality (including “envelope wages”) affects workers and society, and what measures work best in reducing it.