Labour Minister, Nelisiwe Oliphant, is to jet off on her first international engagement when she attends the 310th session of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Governing Body meeting in Geneva tomorrow, 19 March.
The Minister will arrive in the city to deal with a hectic programme of back-to-back meetings dealing with the review of annual reports focusing on the ILO’s declaration on the fundamental principles and rights at work developments on the question of the observance by the government of Myanmar of the forced labour convention complaints about the non-observance of the right to freedom of association by the same government and the complaint against the government of Venezuela on the flouting of the freedom of association.
The meeting will also receive reports from the committees on freedom of association, working party on the functioning of the Governing Body and the International Labour Conference, the financial and administrative programmes.
The agenda will also include unleashing rural development through productive employment and decent work, giving effect to the Global Jobs Pact looking at global wage trends and wage policy developments in selected countries. The latter will look at the relationship between income policies, productivity, growth and employment.
The meeting ends on 25 March.
Enquiries:
Mzobanzi Jikazana
Ministerial Spokesperson
Cell: 083 641 2355
Source: Department of Labour
