News Archive
1st of May 2020: Not the Labour Day as We Know It
Article by Nand Shani, Team Leader of Employment and Social Affairs Platform Project (ESAP 2), implemented jointly by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), funded by the EU Coronavirus in the Western Balkans: Testing immunity of the world ...
The overall objective of ESAP, implemented from April 2016 – October 2019, is to assist the Western Balkans with the employment and social policy reforms in their EU accession process. ESAP has helped improve the regional cooperation in employment and social policy-making, labour market ...
European Commission has adopted its 2019 enlargement package
The 2019 Communication on EU Enlargement Policy and national reports can be found at: https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/countries/package_en
Sarajevo – “Share ofinformal/undeclared employment in the region varies from 18,1% in Republic of North Macedonia to 33% in Montenegro[1],”said Nand Shani, Team Leader of the Regional Cooperation (RCC)’s Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP). Tackling this widespread phenomenon was ...
The European Commission has published its assessments of the Economic Reform Programmes (ERP) of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia and Serbia. The analysis focuses on structural reform priorities, including economic, business and sectoral key ...
High-level Regional Meeting for Labour Inspectorates in the Western Balkans
In the frame of the ILO ESAP, a High Level regional meeting for Directors of Labour Inspectorates was organised in Tirana, on 27 - 28 March 2019, in which the Labour Inspections of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...
The reports are part of a European wide comparative mapping, first carried out at 2014 and now being gradually up-dated. The new reports have been written by academics who have already previously been engaged in researching social enterprises in the respective countries. More ...
ILO Centenary year 1919 – 2019
To mark the ILO’s Centenary year, ILO is launching a new multimedia, interactive website on 9 January that will take you through the past, present and future of the ILO in a way you’ve never experienced before. The organization’s work over the decades has affected all of our ...
100 years of fighting for Social Justice
To welcome the beginning of the ILO’s century year, ILO looks at the organization’s history and impact – and how it is preparing for its second century.
The regional project Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP), funded by the European Commission, started in April 2016. This document shortly presents the key results achieved in relation to the three Components implemented by the ILO: Component I - Improving the effectiveness of ...
CEELEX Database is made available for network members
In October 2018, a link for the CEELEX Database is made available for network members. The CEELex database is a policy tool made available to national policy makers including social partners. It covers 13 CEE countries, and provides access to systematised up to date comparative data in ...
CEELEX report - Comparative Overview of drivers and outcomes
The landscape of labour law and industrial relations has undergone significant reform in most of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries since the outset of the global financial and economic crisis. Following the development of new international visions on economic governance for ...
ILO ESAP: 2nd Annual Meeting of the Central Eastern European Labour Experts Network
The CEELex database is a policy tool made available to national policy makers including social partners. It covers 13 CEE countries, and provides access to systematised up to date comparative data in the areas of labour law and industrial relations. Within the ESAP project, CEELex is being updated ...
Third Annual Meeting of Sub-regional Network of Agencies for Amicable Settlement of Labour Disputes was organised by ILO, on 4-6 July 2018, in Arandjelovac, Serbia.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
This year, the World Day for Safety and Health at Work (SafeDay) and the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) are coming together in a joint campaign to improve the safety and health of young workers and end child labour.
Enhancing Occupational Safety and Health at the workplace through Social Dialogue in Albania
In its first session of 2018, the National Tripartite Labour Council celebrates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work and adopts the Tripartite Action Plan for Effective Social Dialogue
