Geneva: The Wage Protection System (WPS) can be a model the UAE can put at the disposal of other countries in the region and the rest of the world.
Michele Klein Solomon, Director of the Migration Policy and Research Department at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), outlined cooperation on contractual work between the UAE Ministry of Labour and the ministries of labour of India and the Philippines.
The WPS report was prepared by Carl Van Dam, an expert in protection of wages, who was delegated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to the UAE earlier this year.
The evaluation was to be followed by a report prepared by Seiji Machida, Director of the Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment at ILO.
Machida's report has to do with the ministry's recent initiative to develop federal standards for occupational safety and health in the construction sector.
Machida hailed the cooperation between the Ministry of Labour and the ILO which he said has reached standards and controls that could match international standards.
Van Dam's report discussed the structure of WPS, hailing it as an "innovative system" that guarantees that labourers receive full due wages on time. The WPS, he added, can be a model that the UAE can put at the disposal of other countries in the region and the rest of the world.
The UAE delegation to the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva organised a workshop on " Protection of Labourers in the UAE", at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). Keynote speakers included Minister of Labour Saqr Gobash, experts and officials of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
