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Global Jobs Crisis
 IOE ACTIVITY IN RESPONSE TO THE GLOBAL JOBS CRISIS This section of the IOE website is comprised of all IOE documents related to the crisis, along with information from IOE members, the ILO, World Bank, the OECD and other actors. It also contains all recent high level international statements. In February 2009 the IOE convened an emergency forum to explore the crisis and possible responses. The Organisation issued a statement entitled “Economic Recovery and Employment”, proposing measures to overcome the crisis in the immediate term.
This statement subsequently served as a basis for IOE contributions to various international policy debates. Exploration of the crisis was a major focus for the March session of the ILO Governing Body and the statement helped shape employer responses to the high-level panel which was held with the participation of the IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, together with a number of Labour Ministers. The IOE and its partner organisation the Business and Industry Advisory Council to the OECD (BIAC) presented a joint business statement to the G-8 Labour Ministers in Rome (29 March 2009). At a technical level, the IOE participated at the “Jobs Summit” in London (24 March 2009). Both of these events feed into the policy discussions at the G-20 London Summit (1-2 April). In June the IOE and BIAC presented the business community’s perspectives on the Crisis to a special G8 Meeting hosted by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Most recently, IOE President Wiseman Nkuhlu represented the views of the business community in an open letter to the G20 leaders meeting in Pittsburgh at the end of September. A series of events took place at regional level on how Employers’ Organisations (EOs) are responding to the crisis. In May, the IOE and the Federation of Kenyan Employers (FKE) hosted a special session in Nairobi for African EOs. In May the IOE and CAPE looked at the crisis through the lens of human resource development. The IOE’s annual European meeting, held in September this year in Latvia, was devoted to the crisis and the EO response. In Latin America later in the year the Ibero-American Presidents’ meeting will be devoted to the crisis and recovery plans.
At a global level, the IOE dedicated its General Council (2 June) to the theme of the crisis and how EOs are responding, both in terms of internal issues and larger national roles. The IOE also successfully led efforts to refocus the International Labour Conference to deal with the Global Jobs Crisis. The ILC consequently developed a Global Jobs Pact to assist countries in formulating policy responses to the crisis. The IOE has strongly promoted the Pact to its members. We have developed this section of our website as a resource on the crisis for members in their national debates. We hope you find it of use. For further information please contact: Scott Barklamb: barklamb(at)ioe-emp.org |
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