Mozambique prepares to chair SADC Employment and Labour sector

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Mozambique prepares to chair SADC Employment and Labour sector

1:44 CAT | 06 Mar 2020

Photo: A Verdade

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Margarida Talapa, said yesterday (Thursday, March 5) that she considered Mozambique’s taking over the leadership of the SADC’s Employment and Labour sector next year a great responsibility, given the challenge of boosting regional economies by increasing employment opportunities, especially for young people.

Speaking during the 2020 meeting of SADC Ministers of Employment and Labour Social Partners in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Margarida Talapa said that although the Mozambican government recognised the complexity of the task ahead, it was comforted by the support that it expected to receive from the members’ troika and other SADC member countries, especially Tanzania, the current leader of the sector.

“We are fully convinced that Mozambique will preside over the SADC Employment and Labour sector successfully in the next term,” she said, congratulating the SADC Secretariat on its commitment to the regular organisation of the meeting of Employment and Labour Social partners, and thanking the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for technical and financial assistance in the preparation of studies and instruments that are the object of debate at the meeting.

SADC ministers will, in the Tanzanian capital between 5 and 6 March, be assessing the degree of implementation of the decisions of the previous meeting, and making strategic decisions in the employment and labour sector in the context of regional integration. They will also prepare for an upcoming session of the International Labour Conference.

At the International Labour Conference, Mozambique will be represented by a tripartite delegation comprising the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, together with representatives of the trade union organizations OTM-CS and CONSILMO and the CTA-Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique employers’ association.

In 2021, the Mozambican capital, Maputo, will host the next meeting of the Ministers of Labour and Employment and Social Partners.

Source: A Verdade