wages - ILO endorses wage indicator project


The International Labour Organization (ILO) has endorsed the wage indicator project, the project-managers told at an international conference this weekend in the Netherlands. This weekend saw the launch of the project in eight new European countries.
"The wage-indicator contributes to labour market transparency," Friedrich Buttler, Regional director of the ILO for Europe and Central Asia, writes in a letter. "In particular in countries with weak collective bargaining structures and a relatively large shadow economy, your approach can help to generate more realistic information about wage levels, wage structure and wage discrimination and provide useful information for social partners and individuals for wage negotiations."
The China Wage Indicator is expected to go online early 2005.