ILO / GLOBAL UNEMPLOYMENT

Despite falling unemployment levels in some developed economies, new analysis shows the global job crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging economies. ILO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:58
• Production Date: 19 January 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION - ILO
• Subject Topical: UNEMPLOYMENT
• MAMS Id: 1549387
• Parent Id: 1549387
• Alternate Title: unifeed160119e

Description

STORY: ILO / GLOBAL UNEMPLOYMENT
TRT: 01:59
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 19 JANUARY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“On the basis of the disappointingly low growth promises for the global economy, the global economy is not generating enough jobs to reverse the continuing increase in the alarmingly high unemployment situation in the world.”
3. Close up, report
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“In the course of 2015 global unemployment increased by 0.7 million, to take it to a total of 197 million in the world. I think the most worrying aspect of all this is the projections for the coming years, for the coming two years, where we offer statistics, are for a further increase in global unemployment, a further increase of 2.3 million for next year, for this year, excuse me, for 2016, and at 1.1 million for 2017.”
5. Wide shot, press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Vulnerable jobs, self-employed, own account workers, unpaid family contributors: our figure for that is that there are 1.5 billion – let’s go from millions to billions – there are 1.5 billion people very nearly, working in these vulnerable situations. That represents 46 percent of the global workforce.”
7. Wide shot, press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Grosso modo these figures reflect a deterioration of the unemployment situation, particularly in the emerging world, and in the developing world, and a marginal improvement, I would say, in the industrialized countries. But that improvement is insufficient of course to compensate for the slowdown and the job losses being felt.”
9. Wide shot, press conference

Storyline

Despite falling unemployment levels in some developed economies, new analysis shows the global job crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging economies.

SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“On the basis of the disappointingly low growth promises for the global economy, the global economy is not generating enough jobs to reverse the continuing increase in the alarmingly high unemployment situation in the world.”

Continuing high rates of unemployment worldwide and chronic vulnerable employment in many emerging and developing economies are still deeply affecting the world of work, warns a new ILO report.

SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“In the course of 2015 global unemployment increased by 0.7 million, to take it to a total of 197 million in the world. I think the most worrying aspect of all this is the projections for the coming years, for the coming two years, where we offer statistics, are for a further increase in global unemployment, a further increase of 2.3 million for next year, for this year, excuse me, for 2016, and at 1.1 million for 2017.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Vulnerable jobs, self-employed, own account workers, unpaid family contributors: our figure for that is that there are 1.5 billion – let’s go from millions to billions – there are 1.5 billion people very nearly, working in these vulnerable situations. That represents 46 percent of the global workforce.”

The final figure for unemployment in 2015 is estimated to stand at 197.1 million and in 2016 is forecast to rise by about 2.3 million to reach 199.4. An additional 1.1 million jobless will likely be added to the global tally in 2017, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2016 (WESO).

SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Grosso modo these figures reflect a deterioration of the unemployment situation, particularly in the emerging world, and in the developing world, and a marginal improvement, I would say, in the industrialized countries. But that improvement is insufficient of course to compensate for the slowdown and the job losses being felt.”