09 February 2009 - 13 February 2009, Lisbon, Portugal 8th European Regional Meeting The 8th European Regional Meeting (ERM) will provide the space for governments and worker and employer organisations, from across Europe and Central Asia, to come together and shape the ILO's future strategy in the European and Central Asian member countries of the ILO. There will also be a high level panel discussion with Prime Ministers from several European countries and representatives from worker and employer organisations.
04 December 2008 - 05 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Seminar on ‘Employment and unemployment:
Revisiting the relevance and conceptual basis of the statistics’
This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of the Resolution.
November 2008
06 November 2008 - 21 November 2008, Geneva, Switzerland 303rd Session of the Governing Body - 6-21 November 2008 Amid growing concern over the impact of economic turmoil on workers, employers and governments, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) took the first steps toward forging employment and social policy responses through social dialogue aimed at meeting the challenges of the deepening global economic crisis.
24 November 2008 - 05 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians has been convened by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office in its 300th Session (November 2007) to discuss and adopt international statistical standards on two topics, Child Labour and Working Time. ...
08 September 2008 - 10 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Tripartite Meeting of Experts on the Measurement of Decent Work The meeting of experts is expected to discuss and make recommendations on a methodology to measure progress toward decent work that involves the identification of quantitative and qualitative indicators.
05 September 2008, Oslo, Norway High-Level Forum on “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” The High-Level Forum “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” held in Oslo on 5 September 2008 was the first public international discussion of the ILO Declaration on “Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” (June 2008), and gave rise to new ideas for policy coherence and global governance. The meeting was organized by the Government of Norway and the Financial Times.
22 September 2008 - 26 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Tripartite Expert Meeting to Develop Guidelines for Port State Control Officers Carrying out Inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 The 94th (Maritime) Session of the International Labour Conference, which adopted the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, also adopted a number of resolutions.
Resolution IV, concerning the development of guidelines for port State control, requested
that the Director-General of the ILO convene a tripartite expert meeting to develop suitable
guidance for port State control officers.
15 September 2008 - 19 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Tripartite Expert Meeting to Adopt Guidelines on Flag State Inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 The 94th (Maritime) Session of the International Labour Conference, which adopted the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, also adopted a number of resolutions.
Resolution XIII, concerning the development of guidelines for flag State inspection, requested that the Director-General convene a tripartite expert meeting to develop suitable guidance for flag State inspection.
08 September 2008 - 10 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Tripartite Meeting of Experts on the Measurement of Decent Work In its March 2008 session, the Governing Body approved a Tripartite
Meeting of Experts to provide further detailed advice on the viability of the options, and to provide guidance on the various possible ways of measuring the dimensions of decent work in order to prepare comprehensive recommendations for consideration by the Governing Body.
01 April 2008 - 10 April 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Meeting of Experts on Labour Statistics - Part I: Child Labour Statistics, Part II: Measurement of Working Time The meeting of experts is expected to discuss and make recommendations on two topics, under Report I: Statistics of Child Labour and Report II: Measurement of Working Time, with a view to advising the Office on its preparation of proposed standards for submission to the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (Geneva, 24 November- 5 December 2008).