ILO to launch new Global Report on Wage Trends during the crisis
GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Office (ILO) will launch the second edition of its Global Wage Report which provides a global analysis of wage trends during the crisis using the latest world, regional and country-level estimates.  The “Global Wage Report 2010/11 – Wage policies in times of crisis” is to be issued under embargo on Monday, 13 December, for publication on or after 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, 15 December. (30 November 2010)

World AIDS Day 2010 – Workplace policies to tackle HIV and AIDS
In June 2010 the Government, Employer and Worker representatives that make up the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the first international labour standard to focus specifically on HIV and AIDS. The Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the world of work 2010 (No.200) takes a rights-based approach to the pandemic and contains comprehensive measures to improve access to prevention, treatment and care, and to eliminate stigma and discrimination in the work place. On World AIDS Day 2010, ILO Online spoke to Dr. Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO Global Programme on HIV and AIDS and the world of work, about progress made on giving effect to the Recommendation since adoption in June. (30 November 2010)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ratify Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006)
On 9 November 2010 the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines deposited its ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) with the International Labour Office (ILO), making it the eleventh (11) maritime country to ratify. On the same occasion the Government deposited three other important ratifications: the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122); the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), and the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144). (30 November 2010)

Maritime and labour inspectors trained on ILO's Maritime Labour Convention, new international shipping regulation
Thirty-five officials, including maritime and labour inspectors,  from Port Authorities, Maritime Administrations and Labour Ministries from across the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, met at a three-day workshop on 10-12 November 2010, to discuss the International Labour Organization's Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) and how to apply its provisions. The workshop, held in Kingston, Jamaica, was co-organized by the ILO Caribbean Office, the Maritime Authority of Jamaica and the Caribbean Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (CMOU). (26 November 2010)