2023-05-01 22:41:41
Like the international community, workers in Niger celebrated, yesterday Monday 1is May 2023, Labor Day which consecrates the 137th anniversary of the Chicago events universally regarded as the 1is milestone in the conquest of rights by workers. On this occasion, the Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Protection, Dr. Ibrah Boukary delivered, on Friday April 28, 2023, a message in which he specified that this holiday is eminently symbolic for workers around the world. .
For the Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Protection Dr Ibrah Boukary, this highly symbolic celebration for the world of work is, for the Government and the social partners, an opportunity to take a retrospective look at the state of professional relations over the past year and to evaluate the major social projects carried out in partnership with professional organizations of employers and workers. It is also an opportunity for the workers’ union centers to submit their grievances to the Government, by handing over these notebooks to the Ministry of Employment.
Dr. Ibrah Boukary recalled, in his message, the commitment of the President of the Republic, HE Head of State. Mohamed Bazoum, to create the conditions for an active partnership between all the players in the world of work so that, through permanent consultation and negotiation, suitable solutions can be found, whenever necessary, to the many problems which inevitably , arise in the relationship between employers and workers. The Minister then congratulated himself on the conduct, by his ministerial department, of several projects falling within his specifications, during the past year, namely, employment, labor and protection social.
In the field of employment, he continued, there are the impressive results recorded by the Youth Employment and Productive Inclusion Project (PEJIP) with the training, supervision and equipment of 41,115 young people out of the 40,000 planned by 2023; the establishment of an electronic database allowing better control of the number of migrant workers; the modernization of the labor market intermediation system, through the establishment of an electronic platform at ANPE level.
In the field of labor and social dialogue, the Minister underlined the monitoring of the implementation of the memorandums of understanding signed between the Government and the trade unions; improving the environment and working conditions in companies; the signing and popularization of the new Interprofessional Collective Agreement of the Republic of Niger signed on April 19, 2022 among others. In terms of social protection, the Minister mentioned the materialization of the institutional mechanisms for the management and monitoring of Social Protection by the signing of decrees establishing, attributions, composition and functioning of the Interministerial Committee for the Orientation of Social Protection and the Committee National Technical of Social Protection by the Prime Minister etc.
With regard to the actions in perspective, said the minister, there is, among other things, the forthcoming adoption of the new National Employment Policy (PNE), the renewal of the Youth Employment and Productive Inclusion Project for a second phase; the development of cooperation in the field of Nigerien work abroad through recruitment agreements in order to ensure regular employment; the project to finalize the National Action Plan to combat child labor (PAN); the establishment of the new National Commission for Professional Elections (CONEP) with a view to organizing the 2nd edition of professional elections; the draft revision of the Labor Code of 2012; the recruitment of labor executives to strengthen the labor inspection services and the central labor administration; the popularization of the list of tables of occupational diseases.
Aminatou Seydou Harouna(one)
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