Electronic wage payments can promote decent work by enabling women and men workers to have better control over their wages

The transition to responsible digital wages can enhance sustainable business practices, encourage respect of workers’ rights and broaden financial inclusion

Scaling the transition to responsible digital wages requires engagement of governments, the financial sector, the employers’ and workers’ organizations

Responsible digital wage payments can improve women and men workers’ economic opportunities and resilience

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About the Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work

The ILO established the Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work to accelerate the transition from cash to responsible digital wage payments.

The Global Centre seeks to enable women and men workers around the world to have a better control over their wages and use worker-centric digital financial services for better resilience and economic opportunities. With a focus on gender equality, the Global Centre seeks to enable enterprises in various economic sectors to better respect workers’ rights and formalize employment, to become more productive and to grow. Read more in our Brief on Responsible Digital Wage Payments.


Knowledge platform

Our knowledge platform is a one-stop shop providing knowledge, evidence, technical and policy guidance tools, resources to guide actions for supporting the transition from cash to responsible digital wage payments with a view to empowering workers and broadening their financial inclusion, enhancing sustainable business practices and improving on the respect for labour rights.

Explore our knowledge platform by choosing the types of resources and topics you are looking for!

Partners

We work with countries and institutions committed to or interested in the transition from cash to responsible electronic wage payments. In particular, we engage with governments, regulatory bodies, employers’ and workers’ organizations, financial service providers, technical experts, researchers and like-minded organizations.

Join us in the transition!

The ILO’s Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work offers a place for partners to collaborate and foster the transition to responsible digital wage payments.

Are you considering digitizing your payroll? Are you supporting businesses to transition to electronic wage payments?  Do you have lessons or good practices on wage digitization to share?

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