Emcoz presidium re- elected at AGM
the social partners. It was legislated in 2019.
“As you would recall when we got into our first term, our focus was on rebranding Emcoz under the theme “Adjust and Adapt” and the key area of focus for us was social dialogue,” he said in an interview.
“We identified social dialogue through the Tripartite Negotiating Forum as a key enabler for engagement for business, labour and government not only to resolve socioeconomic challenges but also to have a medium-to-long-term view of how we should do things so that we achieve the objective of the National Development Strategy 1 which is to have an upper-middle-class economy by 2030. As we go into the next term we are going to continue on social dialogue among social partners.”
He said the three social partners have started getting some traction in negotiations at the TNF “We would like the momentum to continue and have discipline among social partners particularly the government,’ he said.
“When the government has major policy interventions, they must come to the TNF so that whatever policy interventions are put in place to deal with socio-economic issues, there is ownership by all social partners, there is also accountability and there is consensus building.
I think that is how we should build our country going forward.”