Resources on social protection

  1. ILO Monitor on the world of work. 11th edition

    31 May 2023

    A global employment divide: Low-income countries will be left further behind without action on jobs and social protection

  2. Meeting Minutes of International Conference on the Future of Social Security for New Forms of Work

    29 July 2022

  3. Relevance of ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) to Strengthen the Social Security System in China

    07 February 2022

    This Brief provides an overview of the main provisions and minimum requirements found in ILO’s Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102). The importance for China ratifying Convention No. 102 is presented in the light of the national context.

  4. Nine Business Practices for Improving Safety and Health Through Supply Chains and Building a Culture of Prevention and Protection

    01 October 2021

    Explore the new briefing note from the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Global Compact: “Nine Business Practices for Improving Safety and Health Through Supply Chains and Building a Culture of Prevention and Protection”.

  5. Research brief 3: Social Security of Platform Workers in China: findings and recommendations from two studies (2018-2019)

    04 February 2021

  6. Research brief 2: Institutional constraints for the extension of social insurance coverage to informal economy workers in China

    20 November 2020

  7. ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 6th edition

    23 September 2020

  8. Research brief 1: Beyond the goal of eradicating absolute poverty in China: Relative poverty indicators and social security policies

    31 July 2020

  9. Employment Protection throughout the World: A roundup of a decade of reforms (2009-2019)

    01 July 2020

    Key points: - Since 2009, the ILO has been monitoring legal changes in employment protection for over a hundred countries, recording the information in the ILO EPLex database. - Using these data, this brief shows that the past decade was rich in reforms of employment protection in case of individual dismissals. Some countries decreased their level of employment protection, while others increased it. - Overall, the world has moved to a more uniform level of employment protection. - Despite this, there remains a variety of legal approaches for achieving such seemingly similar levels of protection.

  10. ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 5th edition

    30 June 2020