UAE Minister of Labour H.E. Saqr Ghobash announced in Manila yesterday that UAE is launching an initiative to improve the quality of life and work of Asian contractual workers in UAE.
Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Manila, Ghobash outlined the pilot project to survey and document best practices in the management of the temporary contractual employment cycle.
Yesterday, Ghobash told the plenary session of the Forum, which was attended by Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations and Alberto Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines, that the UAE Government took the initiative, in consultation with other GCC member states, to propose to the Governments of India and the Philippines, the setting up of a pilot project to survey and document best practices in the management of the temporary contractual employment cycle. The Forum was inaugurated by HE Gloria Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines on Wednesday.
The three governments have now agreed to collaborate towards the development of such a pilot project with expert input from the Arab Labour Organisation, the International Labour Organisation and the International Organisation on Migration, Ghobash said.
The overall goal of the project is to test a range of practical measures that will serve to improve the quality of life and work of contractual workers. In more specific terms, the project seeks first of all to improve the quality of recruitment, induction and other pre-deployment processes, and then to provide the workers with decent working and living conditions during their temporary contractual employment and residency in the host country.
Three thousand workers from India and Philippines will participate in this pilot project, which will present a model for the future measures to improve the living conditions of all the contractual workers, Ghobash told the press conference that was attended by other senior officials from UAE.
Director General of the International Organization for Migration William Lacy Swing welcomed the initiative and said that UAE pioneered the project in the region. – Emirates News Agency, WAM
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