Provides guidance on ways and means to minimise the negative effects of working with visual display units. Includes selected examples of regulations, guidelines and collective agreements governing their use.

Examines the recruitment of educational personnel, focusing on quantitative and qualitative aspects.

Provides information on the situation in Barbados and Jamaica as it relates to employment, working conditions and labour relations in offshore data service enterprises, against the background of the ILO's Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.

This paper provides an overview of the most important aspects of the employment and working conditions of homeworkers, including home-based teleworkers and of the legal provisions that exist in different countries. It also gives concrete examples of how such provisions can best be applied in...

Based on data from the IX Censo nacional de poblacion y vivienda de 1993 del INEI and the Encuesta nacional de niveles de vida de 1994 (ENNIV) of Cuanto and World Bank, Encuestas de hogares anuales del Ministerio de Trabajo y Promocion Social from 1986 to 1996 (for urban area of Lima), Encuesta...

Describes different forms of labour flexibility and examines legislative reforms and measures related to flexibility in external and internal labour markets and occupational and individual flexibility. Investigates trends in flexible forms of employment across countries during the 1990s and...

Using an international comparative survey conducted by the ILO in 12 countries, examines the legal framework and enterprise practices (e.g. codes of conduct on AIDS, AIDS agreements concluded in important industrial sectors, as well as negative practices), the impact of the measures taken, and...