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New ILO report urges efforts to strengthen responsible business practices in Thailand's automotive sector

Findings reveal opportunities to enhance decent work conditions and tackle disparities, emphasizing collaboration for industry-wide improvements.

Ensuring safety and health at work in a changing climate

Climate change is a real threat to worker safety across the Asia-Pacific region. To mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2024, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa explains what needs to change.

Integrated approaches for formalization in Asia and the Pacific

This report highlights why the multi-faceted dimensions of informality demand an integrated approach to formalization, outlines the nature of an integrated approach to employment formalization, reviews the extent that countries in Asia and the Pacific are applying integrated approaches to formalization, and provides examples and an action-oriented outline for advancing integrated approaches to formalization in the region.

ILO Financial Education brochure

This brochure introduces the main objectives and characteristics of the ILO Financial Education programme including the key elements of the ILO approach, the major results achieved by the programme as well as its key features and implementation modalities. It provides an overview of what makes the ILO Financial Education programme uniquely positioned to reach vulnerable communities and provide them with vital financial literacy skills.

Migrant workers

Support to Development of ASEAN Declaration on Skills Mobility, Recognition and Development for Migrant Workers

ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN and SKILLS teams are supporting the ASEAN Senior Labour Officials’ Meeting Working Group (SLOM-WG) to develop the ASEAN Declaration on Skills Mobility, Recognition and Development for Migrant Workers. The process is led by the ASEAN Secretariat and supported by the ILO and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The ASEAN Declaration will be adopted at the 44th and 45th Summits in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic in October 2024.

Staff list of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific

Staff list of the ILO Country Office for Thailand, Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic

ILO Financial Education brochure

This brochure introduces the main objectives and characteristics of the ILO Financial Education programme including the key elements of the ILO approach, the major results achieved by the programme as well as its key features and implementation modalities. It provides an overview of what makes the ILO Financial Education programme uniquely positioned to reach vulnerable communities and provide them with vital financial literacy skills.

2022 International Day of Persons with Disability event

The ILO, through the Young Futuremakers Thailand-Phase II project, organized a booth at the “2022 International Day of Persons with Disability” event.

Promoting youth employment in Songkhla and Yala, Thailand

What’s baking in the oven?

Through the Young Futuremakers Thailand-Phase 2 project, the ILO organized the "Bakery" training course for youth with disabilities in Bangkok. From the 8 to 12 January 2024, 20 youth with disabilities participated in the Bakery training course at the Thungmahamek School for the Deaf.

Targeted support towards youth employment in Thailand

Organized by the Young Futuremakers Thailand project, the "Labour market trends, COVID-19 impact, policy considerations and targeted support towards youth for a human-centred recovery in Thailand" event provided a platform for stakeholders to discuss youth employment in Thailand, including policy considerations and opportunities for targeted support towards youth. It also served as an opportunity to launch the ILO's report on “Trends, characteristics and COVID-19 impact on youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in Thailand”.

Cooking for the future

The ILO, through the Young Futuremakers Thailand-Phase 2 project, organized the "Thai fusion cuisine" training course for youth in Bangkok from 2 to 6 October 2023. Twenty youths (aged 15-29) participated in the course and learned various savoury and sweet Thai dishes.

Celebrating future baristas!

The ILO's Young Futuremakers Thailand - Phase II project hosted a barista training course for youth with disabilities at the Thungmahamek School for the Deaf from November 13-17, 2023. Supported by the Standard Chartered Foundation, the project is dedicated to empowering disadvantaged young women and men through the provision of demand-led technical skills training, employability workshops, career guidance and job placements.

Young people in Thailand’s Songkhla and Yala provinces struggling to enter the labour market

New ILO report shares insight into the current youth employment situation and the need for greater support for young people to find decent work.

Key achievements and highlights of the Young Futuremakers Thailand - Promoting Youth Employability project.

This study analyses the design, operation and achievements of the health insurance schemes of the Cambodian National Social Security Fund (NSSF), and proposes options and ideas for improvement of the healthcare system

Labour migration

New EU-UN ‘PROTECT’ project supports women migrant workers and children in Southeast Asia

A new initiative launched by the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) will help strengthen the rights of women migrant workers and children in Southeast Asia, while reducing their vulnerabilities.

ILO Working paper 110

Measuring labour market transitions of youths in Thailand: Evidence from rotation groups (2012–21) in the Labour Force Surveys

This study analysed data covering a full decade of Thai economic activity. It is critical to recognize just how much has changed in the country over the intervening decade. Demographic change has resulted in overall population decline as well as a reduction in the number of people entering the labour force.

We are just like everyone else

Arpasara Sutdamriwong joined the “Barber” training course organized by the Young Futuremakers Thailand project supported by the Standard Chartered Foundation. The course was delivered to 20 young people with hearing impairments (aged 15 -24) at the Thungmahamek School for the Deaf in Bangkok.

ILO Working paper 110

Measuring labour market transitions of youths in Thailand: Evidence from rotation groups (2012–21) in the Labour Force Surveys (epub)

This study analysed data covering a full decade of Thai economic activity. It is critical to recognize just how much has changed in the country over the intervening decade. Demographic change has resulted in overall population decline as well as a reduction in the number of people entering the labour force.