USAMATE UPDATES ILO ON LABOUR RELATIONS IN FIJI

Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations paid a courtesy visit to the ILO director-general policy, Deborah Greenfield, while attending the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland and provided an update on Fiji’s labour relations. Jone Usamate highlighted the Government’s strategic national objective through its National Development Plan and its focus to reduce unemployment to below four per cent.

“With our COP23 Presidency, Fiji is glad to be able to link ILO into the Climate Change discussions through participation of ILO in technical groups giving advice on Just Transition and Decent Work,” Mr Usamate said.

“Our National Employment Policy which is now in final text has ten key policy areas which include youth employment, green jobs, gender equality and strengthening good faith relations.

“Additionally, our Decent Work Country Programme is also in final text and we hope to be able to implement this at the earliest.”

Mr Usamate added that our tripartite labour relations mechanism is continuing with the Employment Relations Advisory Board new term appointments, and also the National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Board and National Employment Centre Board which are also tripartite in nature.

“Further to that, the Labour Law Review is continuing through a tripartite technical committee.” >DEPTFO News