Decent employment, panacea for socio-economic, political challenges -ILO DG.

The Director-General, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, has told government across the world that gainful employment and decent jobs are the only key to tackling socio-economic and political challenges facing humanity.

Speaking at the ongoing 105th International Labour Conference (ILC), in Geneva, Ryder told more than 5,000 government workers and employer delegates from the ILO's 187 member states, that world leaders must assume the responsibilities of the ILO's social justice mandate if the benefits of transformative change at work were to be realised.

He warned them that, inequality, marginalisation and division were not phenomena to which the world of work must react but the consequence of what we do, how we behave, what we decide.

Ryder noted that the world had entered an era where technology was generating innovate disruption of productive life...