FIJI’S Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations Jone Usamate paid a courtesy visit to the ILO Director-General Policy Deborah Greenfield while attending the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and provided an update on Fiji’s labour relations.
Mr Usamate also highlighted the Fijian Government’s strategic national objective through its National Development Plan and its focus to reduce unemployment to below 4 per cent.
“With our COP23 Presidency, Fiji is glad to be able to link ILO into the climate change discussions through the participation of ILO in technical groups giving advice on Just Transition and Decent Work,” Mr Usamate was quoted saying in a Government statement issued today.
“Our National Employment Policy which is now in the final text has 10 key policy areas, which include youth employment, green jobs, gender equality and strengthening good faith relations.”
“Additionally, our Decent Work Country Programme is also in final text and we hope to be able to implement this at the earliest.”
Mr Usamate said our tripartite labour relations mechanism was continuing with the Employment Relations Advisory Board new term appointments, and also the National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Board and National Employment Centre Board which are also tripartite in nature.
“Further to that, the Labour Law Review is continuing through a tripartite technical committee.”
Mr Usamate assured the ILO Director-General Policy that Fiji was committed to following through with the Joint Implementation Agreement signed by the tripartite partners.
