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ILO Global Commission Calls for Urgent Action to Shape a Fair Future of Work
The International Labour Organization's (ILO) Global Commission on the Future of Work has released its final report, urging immediate action to address the pressing challenges and opportunities facing the world of work. The report emphasizes the importance of lifelong learning, smooth transitions between jobs, comprehensive social protection, and global collective action.
The Commission advocates for lifelong learning frameworks that ensure workers can continuously upgrade their skills to adapt to technological changes and labor market shifts. It calls for public investment in skills development programs that are accessible across the workforce, with a focus on future-oriented and inclusive skills training.
Regarding work transitions, the Commission recommends policies that facilitate moving from informal to formal employment, protect workers in platform economies, and support those displaced by automation or economic restructuring. These include expanding social dialogue, improving working conditions, strengthening collective bargaining, and implementing a global framework for decent work that addresses new challenges like digitalization and automation.
In social protection, the Commission stresses expanding coverage to all workers, especially those in informal or precarious jobs, ensuring access to healthcare, unemployment benefits, and protections against workplace hazards. It encourages governments to adopt comprehensive social protection floors and integrative strategies to reduce informality and promote decent jobs.
The ILO's #Timetoact campaign amplifies the urgency for governments, employers, and workers to collectively implement these reforms swiftly to secure a fair and inclusive future of work. The campaign calls for coordinated efforts to operationalize these recommendations through national policies and international cooperation as a response to technological disruption, demographic changes, and widening inequalities in labor markets.
Alain Dehaze, representing the world's leading HR solutions partner, was a member of the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work. He found the Commission to be a shining example of the kind of collective action needed to make the future work for everyone.
Our group, which supports the ILO's calls for a human-centered approach to the future of work, has launched a campaign called #Timetoact. We believe that the current social contract needs to be reinvigorated to offer adequate and fair security, flexibility, and protection for all kinds of work.
To learn more about our group's position on the ILO Commission's Final Report, please visit [link provided]. Action is needed at policy, industry, and individual levels to ensure workforce skills are always up-to-date and adaptable, as outlined in the Final Report and our group's white paper "Rethinking workforce investments". Enhanced investment in people's capabilities, the institutions of work, and decent and sustainable work is emphasized in the report. Let's work together to shape a future of work that is fair, secure, and sustainable.
- To meet the demands of the future of work, our group supports the ILO's emphasis on lifelong learning, advocating for accessible skills development programs with a focus on reskilling and personal-growth opportunities.
- The ILO's calls for coordinated efforts to expand social protection floor to all workers, including those in informal or precarious jobs, aligns with our belief in ensuring career-development and decent work conditions for everyone.
- As technology continues to disrupt workplaces, the recommendations from the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work underscore the need for lifelong skills-training and education-and-self-development to drive personal growth and foster a fair and sustainable future of work.
