Africa-Press – Eswatini. Business Eswatini is attending the 10th International Labour Conference taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.
The session comes at a time when Business Eswatini had just hosted a Bipartite Dialogue on job creation where there were different participants, which included ILO, Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), Federation of Eswatini Business Community (FESBC) and the Federation of Swaziland Trade Unions (FESWATU).
The country is represented by the Commissioner of the Ministry of Labour, Mthunzi Shabangu and Business Eswatini Chief Executive Officer, E Nathi Dlamini.
The chief executive officer said the issues to be discussed were wide-ranging with equally wide-ranging implications on the world of work and on workers and employers alike.
“The pandemic in particular and the fourth industrial revolution that came knocking at our doors earlier than previously envisaged, have changed everyone’s perspective, including mine, on many things and of late all eyes are unsurprisingly fixated, almost firmly, on what they refer to here as a “human-centred,” approach to economic recovery,” he said.
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He stated that they were yet to engage and debate these matters in the next few days, and he was looking forward to participating in any manner permissible by his status as a vote-bearing official delegate.
“The bottom line is that whatever is officially adopted here becomes law everywhere, almost literally.
This means that we, as delegates, must always have our eyes peeled and ears alert so that the legitimate interests of our country or alternatively, the interests of the three social partners in the country are not ridden roughshod over,” he said.
Dlamini further mentioned that the ILO had been very good to Business Eswatini and they valued their partnership and commitment, especially in the past four years.
“As I attend these meetings here in Geneva I cannot help but wax lyrical about our relationship with this organisation. I do so as the prospects of yet another project, which I have on my mind looms ever so large; a project which will need partners of substance such as the ILO,” he said.
The ILO Conventions covers a wide area of social and labour issues including basic human rights, minimum wages, industrial relations, employment policy, social dialogue, social security and other issues.
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