EMPLOYMENT ACADEMY

This course aimed at promoting innovation and stronger implementation of employment policies, responding to the demands from constituents to promote a better future of work and social justice for all. It offered a comprehensive training package that provided the core knowledge and skills on employment promotion while tackling the topic from different perspectives, considering the emerging challenges, such as digitalization and climate transition. OBJECTIVES The Employment Academy aimed to: • Foster better understanding of employment policy approaches and how to adapt interventions to respond to the changing world of work; • Identify and debate new emerging challenges such as AI, climate change, transition to formality and their impact on the labour market; • Understand different diagnostic approaches to better understand the link between employment challenges and other issues; • Provide guidelines for the design and implementation of employment policies; • Offer a better understanding of the intergenerational concerns and inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labour market; • Enhance knowledge on gender responsive policy frameworks; • Identify avenues to boost social dialogue and tripartism to achieve better policy outcomes. CONTENT The Academy covered the following topics: Plenaries: • The need for a new economic framework • The hype and reality of AI and its impact on labour markets • Climate change and the labour market • Finding resilience in a crisis-affected world • The eternal quest of formalizing jobs • Moving towards gender responsive policy approaches • Intergenerational concerns and inclusion in the labour market • Social dialogue for more inclusive and effective policy outcomes Thematic tracks: • Driving job creation through pro/employment economic policies • Green jobs and skills in times of climate change and transitions • Digitalization, AI and employment • Conflict, distaters and crises: how employment policies can link humanitarian responses to longer/term recovery