Promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment, decent work and income-generation opportunities

OBJECTIVES This course aims to strengthen trade union understanding, policies, strategies and actions in promoting workers’ rights, decent and quality jobs, and inclusive growth in these difficult times. By completing the elements of the training programme, participants will be able to: 1. understand and appreciate the changed realities, including the challenges, opportunities, and impact on labour markets, employment and labour relations. 2. analyse the weaknesses and policy deficits of emerging industrial relations practices conditioned by recovering the pandemic. 3. analyse policy deficits of emerging industrial relations and challenges vis a vis the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. 4. understand the changing nature of industrial relations (i.e. bipartite social dialogue). Addressing industrial relations in the context of the changing nature of labour markets (i.e. greater flexibilization, outsourcing, digital labour platforms, greater informalization and so on). 5. use ILS, ILO tools and databases as well as other instruments to develop policy recommendations and demands towards a coherent regulatory framework for promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment, inclusive structural transformation , skills development, decent work and income-generation opportunities, which trade unions can bring in tripartite and bipartite discussions and public policy debates at the national, sectoral levels and enterprise levels. CONTENT - ILS, ILO tools and other instruments to develop policy recommendations and demands towards a coherent regulatory framework for promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment. - Employment trends by region (the global labour market at a glance, trends in labour income, hours worked, inequalities and providing an overall outlook for the global labour market in the aftermath of COVID-19. - Promote coherent macroeconomic and sectoral policies for a human-centred recovery, inclusive structural transformation and creation of decent jobs. - The post-pandemic policy context: from emergency assistance to "building back better". NUMBER OF HOURS: 40