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Decent work in an increasingly digitalized financial services sector
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Decent work in an increasingly digitalized financial services sector

Harnessing the potential of digital technologies to achieve decent work in the financial sector: Policies and practices on the impact of...
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Harnessing the potential of digital technologies to achieve decent work in the financial sector: Policies and practices on the impact of...

The ILO report Policies and Practices in the Financial Sector that Address the Impact of Digitalization and Harness the Potential of Digital Technologies to Achieve Decent Work provides a global overview of policies, initiatives and practices...

Statistical profile - Private Security Services Sector
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Statistical profile - Private Security Services Sector

This Profile provides a statistical description of employment patterns and recent trends in the private security sector, including data for the 2020 COVID-19 period.

Digitalization and the future of work in the financial services sector
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Digitalization and the future of work in the financial services sector

Issues paper for the Technical Meeting on the impact of digitalization in the finance sector (Geneva, 24-28 January 2022)

Law and practice on protecting whistle-blowers in the public and financial services sectors

Law and practice on protecting whistle-blowers in the public and financial services sectors

This paper seeks to map out laws and practices and identify measures in place for the protection of whistle-blowers by analysing a representative sample of laws, regulations and international instruments.

Social Finance Working Paper #75: Innovative finance - putting your money to (decent) work

Social Finance Working Paper #75: Innovative finance - putting your money to (decent) work

Social Finance has been working since late 2017 towards exploring further potential to engage with innovative finance stakeholders with the goal to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, in particular, the goal of decent work and...

Challenges and Opportunities of Teleworking for Workers and Employers in the ICTS and Financial Services Sectors
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Challenges and Opportunities of Teleworking for Workers and Employers in the ICTS and Financial Services Sectors

Issues Paper for the Global Dialogue Forum on the Challenges and Opportunities of Teleworking for Workers and Employers in the ICTS and Financial Services Sectors (Geneva, 24-26 October 2016)

Responsible contracting: An approach aimed at improving social and labour practices in the property services sector

Responsible contracting: An approach aimed at improving social and labour practices in the property services sector

Research paper on the property services sector, and in particular on the provision of cleaning and security services, prepared as background for an ILO meeting on Private employment agencies in private services sectors, 18–19 October 2011.

Private employment agencies in Morocco

Private employment agencies in Morocco

Research paper on private employment agencies and temporary agency work in a country having ratified the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), prepared for an ILO meeting on Private employment agencies in private services sectors,...

Promotion of decent work for plantation and rural youth in Sri Lanka
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Youth employment

Promotion of decent work for plantation and rural youth in Sri Lanka

The project contributes to poverty reduction by helping rural youth enter the labour market. By developing the capacity of local staff and institutions, it also improves labour market and employment services. In addition, it works closely with...

Sri Lanka’s working poor
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Sri Lanka’s working poor

This paper presents a profile of Sri Lanka's working poor in terms of stock and characteristics; attributes associated with the probability of being working poor, and the reasons why the employed poor earn too little to overcome poverty.

Promoting employment-intensive growth in Sri Lanka: policy analysis of the manufacturing and service sectors
Promoting employment-intensive growth in Sri Lanka: policy analysis of the manufacturing and service sectors

Promoting employment-intensive growth in Sri Lanka: policy analysis of the manufacturing and service sectors

This paper examines the employment effect of growth in manufacturing sector industries in Sri Lanka covering a period of 17 years from 1990.