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Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, calls on the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers at their meeting on Covid-19 to co-ordinate a global response with G20 support and leadership: on global funding for social protection; on global cooperation and coherence on support to non-essential global ...

Dans le cadre de sa réponse à la crise du Covid-19, l’OCDE a récemment publié deux notes d’orientation sur le commerce international, dressant la carte des soutiens gouvernementaux et esquissant certaines actions pour soutenir le commerce international. Le point de départ est que ...

As part of its response to Covid-19 crisis, the OECD has recently released two policy briefs on international trade, mapping government supports and sketching some actions to keep trade flowing. The starting point is that trade flows are severely hit by the crisis. Already before the pandemic, the ...

UNI Global Union and affiliated unions filed a specific instance with the France National Contact Point of the OECD.  UNI Global Union is the umbrella organisation for the service sector representing 20 million workers in 150 countries.  The submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational ...

John Evans, former General Secretary of the TUAC, writes about the covid-19 crisis and draws some lessons from the 2008-2009 crisis, including: Countries which preserve jobs and value workers will be the most resilient to this and future shocks Policies and their financing must be socially fair ...

The following findings illustrate the need for tailored policies that look at the delivery of learning (including resolving connectivity issues), the well-being of students and the challenges faced by households depending on their employment status (during confinement), income and demographics ...

Version en français ci-dessous The G7 has to lead on a coordinated response to the rapid and wide spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 and support international cooperation and coordination. Citizens need protection under their right to health and safety, including exposed frontline workers ...

The OECD released a new web portal in response to the Covid-19 virus outbreak, “Tackling the coronavirus – Contributing to a global effort” including useful policy analysis and listing short-term policy solutions to cushion the impact of the crisis. In what follows the TUAC provides a ...

In a joint statement, the TUAC and Business at OECD (BIAC) are calling for OECD policy leadership and international cooperation as a response to the COVID-19 global crisis. Now more than ever, the OECD must deliver the best policy advice on both short-term collective response measures, as well as ...

As health systems are facing the biggest health crisis in a century, countries are scrambling to find effective policies to combat the spread of the COVID-19 disease. The dramatic situations across OECD countries created by the pandemic if any show the crucial need for well-funded public health ...

(Version française ci-dessous / Versión en español a continuación) Executive summary The crisis caused by the coronavirus is proving deeper than initially expected, leading the OECD to constantly revise growth estimates downwards. Representing above all a health emergency, the COVID-19 crisis ...

(traduction française ci-dessous) Meeting in London, the Council of Global Unions, including the TUAC, the International Trade Union Confederation and Global Union Federations adopted a statement calling for urgent action by governments and employers on the COVID -19 Crisis. Among others, Global ...