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ILO / GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
STORY: ILO / GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
TRT: 2.31
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGO UNTIL 2300 GMT 24 JANUARY 2011
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 21 JANUARY, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
DATELINE: 21 JANUARY, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
DECEMBER 2010, DROGHEDA, COUNTY LOUTH AND DUBLIN, IRELAND
1. Med shot, Patricia McHugh gardens at home in Drogheda, County Louth
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia McHugh, Jobseeker:
“I have a lovely garden here. I spend a lot of time in the garden because I just feel it takes my mind off the stress and the worry about bills coming in and never knowing if I have enough money to pay for them.”
3. Wide shot, Patricia McHugh holds trowel and bucket in her garden
4. Wide shot, fruit and vegetable stallholder, a woman, calls out to customers and puts bananas into plastic bag
5. Med shot, vegetable stallholder, a man, with red peppers and onions in foreground
21 JANUARY, 2011, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Kapsos, Economist, ILO:
“We are projecting global unemployment of 203, over 203 million in 2011. That’s not significantly different than the picture in 2010. So what we’re seeing is an ongoing macroeconomic recovery but very much a delayed labour market recovery. And one of the warnings that we issue in the report is that this type of situation can actually represent a threat to economic growth and a broader recovery going forward.”
7. Wide shot, people walk across Ha-penny Bridge
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eimear Brogan, Jobseeker:
“There’s nearly half a million people unemployed in Ireland at the moment so with all of them looking for a job I myself I don’t think that the prospects for me finding one soon is very good.”
DECEMBER 2010, RASTAAT AND BÜHL, GERMANY
9. Close up, UHU products on pallet
10. Wide shot, UHU employee tapes up box
11. Wide shot, UHU warehouse worker operates forklift
21 JANUARY, 2011, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Kapsos, Economist, ILO:
“Unfortunately what we’re seeing is unemployment rates that are remaining ‘sticky’, they are not coming down as one would like. Now this can have negative consequences for the global economic recovery going forward. And what we also have to remember is that we have large pools of discouraged workers that have left the labour force altogether that aren’t even counted among the unemployed.”
DECEMBER 2010, CAIRO EGYPT
13. Wide shot, four young men walk along pavement
14. Close up, hands handle dates
15. Wide shot, dates stallholder, customers in foreground, women and children sit on edge of pavement next to dates stall
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Magdy, Jobseeker:
“I depend on my father for help, my brother helps. If I get stuck, my friends are around, thank God things are rough and that’s it.”
DECEMBER 2010, RASTAAT, GERMANY
17. Close up, hands manipulate electronic board in Siemens factory
18. Close up, face of woman at work in Siemens factory, whose hands are shown in previous shot
19. Wide shot, Siemens workers at their work stations with some empty work stations
21 JANUARY, 2011, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Theodoor Sparreboom, Economist, ILO:
“The part-time employment rate continues to be much higher than you would expect on the basis of pre-crisis trends, which means that labour markets continue to be in distress that employers continue to have difficulties.”
21. Close up, Eimear Brogan looks into distance
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Eimear Brogan, Jobseeker:
“I feel that a lot of the governments around the world have put a lot of energy into the banking systems and supporting them and they haven’t put enough into job creation.”
23. Wide shot, bridge over River Liffey in Dublin, truck with “Target express” sign crossing bridge
SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia McHugh, Jobseeker:
“I have a lovely garden here. I spend a lot of time in the garden because I just feel it takes my mind off the stress and the worry about bills coming in and never knowing if I have enough money to pay for them.”
Patricia McHugh spends more time in her garden these days than she would like. She hasn’t worked for six years. When the economic crisis hit, her husband’s construction work disappeared as well.
More than 200 million people are out of work and global unemployment is at a record high for the third straight year. According to a report from the International Labour Office, the prospects for job recovery in 2011 remain weak.
SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Kapsos, Economist, ILO:
“We are projecting global unemployment of 203, over 203 million in 2011. That’s not significantly different than the picture in 2010. So what we’re seeing is an ongoing macroeconomic recovery but very much a delayed labour market recovery. And one of the warnings that we issue in the report is that this type of situation can actually represent a threat to economic growth and a broader recovery going forward.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Eimear Brogan, Jobseeker:
“There’s nearly half a million people unemployed in Ireland at the moment so with all of them looking for a job I myself I don’t think that the prospects for me finding one soon is very good.”
According to ILO economists unemployment remains a sticky problem; high unemployment rates persist despite the fact that GDP, private consumption and world trade now surpass pre-crisis levels.
SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Kapsos, Economist, ILO:
“Unfortunately what we’re seeing is unemployment rates that are remaining ‘sticky’, they are not coming down as one would like. Now this can have negative consequences for the global economic recovery going forward. And what we also have to remember is that we have large pools of discouraged workers that have left the labour force altogether that aren’t even counted among the unemployed.”
More than 77 million young people are unemployed; a rate nearly three times higher than adults. Millions more have actually given up looking for work, and are not even counted in that number.
Growing numbers, over half the world’s labour force, do not earn wages but work in vulnerable, unprotected jobs and one out of every five, live with their families in extreme poverty.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Magdy, Jobseeker:
“I depend on my father for help, my brother helps. If I get stuck, my friends are around, thank God things are rough and that’s it.”
For the first time in years, the number of people in industrial jobs declined, especially in Developed Economies and the European Union. And low-labour demand can be seen in the high levels of part-time employment in those countries.
SOUNDBITE (English) Theodoor Sparreboom, Economist, ILO:
“The part-time employment rate continues to be much higher than you would expect on the basis of pre-crisis trends, which means that labour markets continue to be in distress that employers continue to have difficulties.”
Reducing fiscal deficits in the face of a jobless recovery means people already out of work, will have to wait longer to find a job.
SOUNDBITE (English) Eimear Brogan, Jobseeker:
“I feel that a lot of the governments around the world have put a lot of energy into the banking systems and supporting them and they haven’t put enough into job creation.”
The aim is to target a job-rich recovery that bridges the gap between economic growth and job creation.
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