ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean launches two new publicatioNS
PORT OF SPAIN (ILO Feature) - The ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean launched two new publications in December 2008 entitled “Caribbean Digest of Legislation on Termination of Employment” and “A Handbook for Peer Educators - Addressing HIV/AIDS in the workplace”. Both publications are outputs of two ILO Projects implemented by the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and are available online.

GLOBAL WAGE REPORT 2008/09 - ILO WARNS OF WAGE CUTS FOR MILLIONS OF WORKERS IN 2009. DECLINES FOLLOW DECADE IN WHICH WAGES FAILED TO KEEP PACE WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH GENEVA (ILO News) – The global economic crisis is expected to lead to painful cuts in the wages of millions of workers worldwide in the coming year, according to a new report published today by the International Labour Office (ILO). (25 November 2008)

ILO has a major role to play in responding to the economic crisis says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
GENEVA (ILO News) ─ United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said decent work was essential to helping people weather the global financial crisis, which had also become ”a jobs crisis”.In an address to the ILO’s Governing Body meeting here, the Secretary-General said the ILO “with its diverse membership and global reach, is promoting the decent work that is essential if people are to weather the bad times we now face. I will be counting on the ILO to expand its contribution to this great effort”. (19 November 2008)