ANDl employment in Latin America will grow by barely 0.9% in 2023 —2.9 million new jobs— and 1.4% in 2024 —4.6 million—, indicated the global labor market outlook report of the International Labor Organization (ILO). This will mean a sharp slowdown after regional employment growth of 6.4% in 2021 and 4.9% in 2022, underlines the […]
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ILO expects employment in Latin America to grow by barely 0.9%
Employment in Latin America will grow just 0.9% in 2023 (2.9 million new jobs) and 1.4% in 2024 (4.6 million), indicated today the global labor market outlook report of the International Labor Organization ( ILO). This will mean a sharp slowdown after regional employment growth of 6.4% in 2021 and 4.9% in 2022, underlines the […]
Economic slowdown increases lower-quality jobs, ILO warns
The current slowdown in the world economy forces more workers to accept low-paid, precarious jobs and devoid of social protection, accentuating the inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, the International Labor Organization (ILO) warned on Monday. The ILO also forecasts a slight increase in global unemployment this year, of around three million people, to reach […]
CTS could be reduced by unemployment insurance
One of the important issues for the management of the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) is the implementation of unemployment insurance in Peru, which has been working in coordination with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and that it even already has a preliminary proposal that is waiting to be shared and discussed with […]
Since Monday, companies that continue to outsource personnel in essential activities have been fined
As of this Monday, August 22, the Business that did not eliminate labor outsourcing workers in essential activities; that is, the core of the business. This provision was adopted by the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) through supreme decrees 001-2022-TR and 015-2022-TR. In this regard, the former General Director of Labor of the […]
Workers already have an instrument that protects against violence and harassment
From today, workers have an instrument that protects against violence and harassment at work. This is the Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the world of work, which was debated and approved on January 31 last, in the Congress of the republic, at the insistence of the Ministry of Labor and Employment […]
93% of the pending jobs to be recovered in Latin America are for women, according to the ILO
While there has been an economic recovery and jobs lost in Latin America and the Caribbean due to the pandemic, 4.5 million people still need to be incorporated into the labor market to reach pre-COVID-19 figures, of which the 93% of the jobs correspond to womenas reported by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Vinicius Pinheiro, […]
Informality settled in 75% of the recovery of Peruvian employment
By Jackeline Cardenas I. Labor informality in Peru persists with 75% since the pandemic began until the third quarter of 2021, estimated the International Labor Organization (ILO). In this regard, the ILO director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Vinicius Pinheiropointed out that in the case of Peru “The starting point to combat informality is […]
ILO: 4.5 million jobs lost due to the pandemic need to be recovered in Latin America
The COVID-19 pandemic caused up to 49 million jobs to be lost in Latin America, and according to the International Labor Organization (ILO)Until the third quarter of 2021, 4.5 million jobs remain to be recovered. Of this figure, 4.2 million correspond to jobs performed by women. It is important to point out that the gender […]
Congress approved to ratify Convention 190, on violence and harassment at work
The plenary session of Congress approved, with 110 votes in favor, the ratification of Convention 190 of the International Labor Organization (ILO), on violence and harassment in the world of work. The agreement, which contains 20 articles, protects workers from violence and harassment in the workplace in the public or private sector, formal or informal, […]