Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Employers engaged in anti-union activities, unfair labour practices *Draft national policy addresses archaic labour laws, but employers seen violating labour rights


While there is a need to reform archaic labour laws, enforcement must be strengthened as a matter of priority as workers are increasingly being discouraged from forming trade unions with employers resorting to anti-union activities and unfair labour practices, especially in the export processing zones, while threats to employment surface in the economy, a draft policy document spearheaded by the Senior Ministers’ Secretariat says.

The second draft of the proposed ‘National Policy on Human Resources and Employment’ was shared with a wide-range of stakeholders last week.

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