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New ILO regional report warns of the need for measures to help prevent formal employment precariousness and to stimulate the creation of more decent jobs throughout the region.

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Low growth and global crisis slow job recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean

(ILO News) – Latin America and the Caribbean have seen a significant recovery in employment following the COVID-19 pandemic...

The regional unemployment rate reached 7.9 per cent and returned to pre-pandemic levels, but the labour outlook in the region, also affected by the impact of the war in Ukraine, may be complicated by greater informality and working poverty, says the ILO.

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the labour markets of Latin America and the Caribbean has had a greater impact on women...

1 February 2022 (Lima, Peru) – The economic growth recorded in 2021 was insufficient to recover labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean

ILO:Need to design policies for tourism recovery by 20210701 The In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO) has an­nounced the need to de­sign poli­cies aimed at the re­cov­ery of tourism in Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean coun­tries, which will pro­mote one of the most dy­nam­ic eco­nom­ic sec­tors es­sen­tial for the gen­er­a­tion of for­eign ex­change, in­come and jobs. Tourism was hit hard by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, ac­cord­ing to a new re­gion­al ...

December 18, 2020 Over the last ten months, the labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean have regressed at least ten years and the crisis is far from over, according to an International Labour Organisation official presenting the newest annual Labour Overview report “We are entering 2021 with employment in intensive care,” said Vinícius Pinheiro, ILO Regional Director, as he launched the main findings of the 2020 Labour Overview for Latin America and the Caribbean, a re...