World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2019 published by ILO (2019).
“Inclusive and well-functioning labour markets are central to the ILO’s mandate of delivering decent work and supporting social justice. This is because paid work is the main source of income for the vast majority of households worldwide, and also because the organization of work can reinforce the core principles of equality, democracy, sustainability and social cohesion. This notion is reinforced during 2019, the ILO’s Centenary, by the powerful vision advanced by the Report of the Global Commission on the Future of Work1 to secure a human-centred agenda for the future of work. The report calls for a human-centred agenda with a renewed focus on people’s wide-ranging capabilities, as well as the potential of labour market institutions, and highlights the urgency of investments in neglected areas of the economy in developed and developing countries. In keeping with this new vision, there is a need to focus on the issues of equality, sustainability and inclusiveness in the presentation and analysis of labour market trends.
New global data collected by the ILO for 2018 point to some progress, but above all reveal the persistence of significant decent work deficits, with the various regions facing challenges of many different kinds. One hundred years since its formation, strong guidance by the ILO remains essential to help address decent work deficits and to enable an informed debate of the ambitious recommendations of the Global Commission on the Future of Work…”
