Minister of Labour recommends 10 points as a basis for discussing decent work in Cambodia in 2024-2028

Heng Bitter, Minister of Labour and Vocational Coaching, on Monday, November 20, 2023, made 10 suggestions to the Nationwide Tripartite Consultative Workshop on “Preparation of a First rate Work Programme for Cambodia 2024-2028” as a foundation in addition to an enter for the workshop for dialogue to make sure the very best pursuits of Cambodia.

The workshop was attended by Oktavianto Pasaribu, Deputy Director of the Workplace of the Worldwide Labour Organisation (ILO) in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos; Sam Soeun, President of the Nationwide Commerce Union Council for an honest work programme in Cambodia (NTUC); and Oknha Sok Piseth, President of the Cambodian Federation of Employers and Enterprise Associations (CAMFEBA).

The ten suggestions embody: (1) constructing belief from all stakeholders on the effectivity of the ministry’s operators; (2) establishing compliance with working situations and well being situations (OSH); (3) strengthening the effectiveness of labour dispute decision mechanisms (Arbitration councils); (4) enlargement of the Social Safety Fund; (5) migrant staff; (6) elimination of great types of baby labour; (7) obligations to coach apprentices to extend the effectiveness of trainees; (8) vocational technical coaching by way of vocational and technical coaching packages for 1.5 million goal youth; (9) selling the gender of feminine staff in accordance with the rules of fairness; and (10) strengthening the tripartite mechanism.

For the Minister, 10 suggestions can be improved within the fields of employment, social safety, and vocational coaching within the Kingdom of Cambodia, according to the objectives of the Royal Authorities introduced initially of the mandate.

Earlier than concluding, the Minister anticipated that the Nationwide Tripartite Consultative Workshop on “Preparation of a First rate Work Programme for Cambodia 2024-2028” can be primarily based on discussions that profit the roughly 10 million staff in Cambodia as a foundation for entry into the Royal Authorities’s nationwide plan. AKP