Azerbaijani labor minister to attend High-level Conference on European Social Charter

Baku, October 15 (AzerTAc). Azerbaijani Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population Salim Muslumov will attend a High-level Conference on the European Social Charter to take place in the Italian city of Turin on October 17-18. The conference is aimed at bringing together European policy-makers and reaffirming the importance of social rights in times of crisis. The main subjects to be discussed at the conference include Austerity measures in times of crisis: impact on social rights, participation by citizens, and the European Social Charter’s contribution to overcoming the crisis; The contribution made by the Social Charter’s collective complaints procedure to respect for social rights in Europe; Synergies between the law of the European Union and the European Social Charter. The European Social Charter, an instrument which provides Europe with a social constitution, establishes a system of legal standards which help to reduce economic and social tensions while facilitating sustainable and mutually beneficial development in the States Parties.