ILO

Income gap between rich and poor is huge and growing, warns UN report

16 October 2008
The gap between high and low wage earners has increased dramatically in most of the world since the early 1990s despite strong economic growth that created millions of new jobs, according to a report published today by the United Nations labour agency.
Professor Joseph Stiglitz (file photo)

Nobel-winning economist and Canadian researcher share UN labour prize

4 June 2008
The United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has selected Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and leading Canadian labour researcher Harry Arthurs as the winners of its Decent Work Research Prize 2008.
Bicycle industry in India

Better managing of risks can reduce work-related accidents, says UN agency

24 April 2008
The United Nations labour agency is calling for better managing risks in the workplace in an effort to reduce the over two million deaths each year resulting from work-related accidents and ill health.

Citing global economic instability, UN predicts 5 million more jobless this year

23 January 2008
The United Nations labour agency predicts that economic turbulence resulting from credit market turmoil and rising oil prices could lead to another 5 million people becoming unemployed this year.