Global
Employment and Social Outlook 2022 :
- ILO and findings of World Employment and Social Outlook Covid-19 impact on global employment.
- International Labor Organization (ILO) has released the World Employment and Social Outlook Report 2022.
- The Geneva-based United Nations agency has degrade its predicted for labour market recovery in 2022, projecting a deficit in hours worked globally equivalent to 52 million full-time jobs, relative to the fourth quarter of 2019. The previous year approximate in May 2021 projected a deficit of 26 million full-time equivalent jobs.
- The 2022 report surveyed the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on global and regional trends in employment, unemployment and labour force participation as well as on job quality, informal employment and working poverty.
- World Employment and Social Outlook Report (WESO) analyses key labour market issues, including unemployment, labour underutilization, working poverty, income inequality, labour income share and factors that exclude people from decent .
- International Labour Organization (ILO) Projections of the WESO Report, 2022 Global unemployment is projected to reach 207 million in 2022.
- Global working hours in 2022 will be almost 2% below their pre-pandemic level around 40 million people will not participate in the global labour force 2020 pushed 30 million adults into extreme poverty.
- Low and middle-income countries have low access to vaccines and limited spread to expand government budgets.
- Travel and tourism sectors were highly affected due to Covid-19 and will continue.
- Women are worse hit by the labour market crisis than men since 2020 and it is expected to continue with closure of education and training institutions and digital divide Institutions in news.
- India is founding member of ILO, to promote social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights o It is the only tripartite UN agency o It brings together representatives of governments, employers and workers to jointly shape policies and programmes.
- Aims :
- Promote rights at work.
- Encourage decent employment chances for men and women.
- Increase the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all Strengthen employers, organizations, and trade unions and social dialogue.
- Functions:
- To create international labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations.
- Develop policies and programmes to promote basic human rights, decent work for all women and men.
- To conduct an extensive programme of international technical cooperation, Training, education, research, and publishing activities to help advance all of these efforts.
- Registers complaints against entities that violate international rules. But it does not impose sanctions on governments.
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