Bureau for Employers' Activities
Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) represent a key asset in any society: its enterprises. Successful enterprises are at the heart of any strategy to create employment and improve living standards. EBMOs help to create the conditions for enterprise success by influencing the environment in which they do business and by providing services that improve their individual performance. As one of the three constituents of the ILO, EBMOs have a special relationship with the Organization.
The Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) is a specialized unit within the ILO Secretariat. Its task is to maintain close and direct relations with Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) in member States, to make the ILO's resources available to them and to keep the ILO constantly aware of their views, concerns and priorities.
ACT/EMP seeks to foster well-functioning EBMOs, which are important actors in shaping an environment conducive to competitive and sustainable enterprises, good governance, political and social stability, democracy and socio-economic development. ACT/EMP assists EBMOs in building strong, independent and representative organizations that respond to their members´ needs and challenges though its technical cooperation programme, which provides assistance to EBMOs in developing and transition countries. How to contact ACT/EMP
News and articles
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A year of progress: Uzbekistan’s textile industry marks first anniversary of landmark labour agreement
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EBMOs to scale up their work on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues
Highlights
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Publication
Navigating Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) Financial Challenges
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Video
Business is not as usual: what Employers' and business member organizations (EBMOs) need to know
Publications
Navigating Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) Financial Challenges
Lifelong learning
Skilling for future in PSEs: An ILO-SCOPE study on skills profiles in PSEs
Women in business and management
Women in Business: How employer and business membership organizations drive gender equality
Regions
Africa
Arab States
Asia and the Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Events and meetings
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Information for web page on ILO-IOE event on Women in business
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Employers' and business membership organizations
Business is not as usual: what Employers' and business membership organizations (EBMOs) need to know
Key areas of work
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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Building effective employer and business membership organizations
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Enabling Environments for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE)
Women in Business and Management
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Productivity and competitiveness
Transforming EBMOs into data-driven organizations
Videos
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Meet the Specialists: Iulia Drumea, Employers' organizations
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Women in business: How employer & business membership organizations drive gender equality