Geneva: The UAE is participating in the 103rd session of the International Labour Conference which is being convened at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and the headquarters of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Labour Minister Saqr Gobash will attend the plenary session of the International Labour Conference, scheduled on June 4 at UNOG, and the 47th session of the coordination meeting of the Labour Ministers’ Council of Cooperation Council for Gulf Arab States (GCC).
The conference brings together more than 5,000 delegates representing 185 of the organisation’s member states.
A UAE delegation led by Gobash includes Humaid Bin Deemas Al Suwaidi, Assistant Undersecretary for Labour Affairs; Khalifa Khamis Mattar Al Ka’abi, member of the UAE delegation to the ILO; Mohammad Al Shamsi, Chairman of the UAE Coordinating Assembly for Occupational Societies; and others.
On Monday, the UAE will be part of the upcoming ILO Board of Directors’ nominations, running as board director of the Asia and Western Pacific group. The UAE’s nomination receives large support from the group.
The ILO conference which runs until June 12 will discuss three vital reports prepared by the organisation’s technical committees on the transformation from informal economy to formal economy, promoting actions aimed at putting an end to forced labour, as well as sustainable employment recovery policies.
The conference already discussed general survey of reports relevant to Convention No 131 of 1970 on the determination of and recommendations on minimum wages, as well as two reports by the ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on fair migration and the situation of workers in the occupied Arab territories.
