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GCC is implementing promising national strategy to provide more job opportunities for citizens, Ghobash
Abu Dhabi, June 14, 2011 (WAM) - The UAE Minister of Labour, President of the twenty-eighth session of the Council of Ministers of Labour of GCC, Saqr Ghobash has assured that GCC countries are implementing a promising national strategy to provide more job opportunities for its citizens.
He added that GCC countries are implementing policies to promote national employment opportunities as constitutional obligation on governments as well as facilitate the movement of labour between gulf states within the framework of the Gulf Common Market.
This came in the joint statement of the Council of GCC Ministers of Labour, delivered by Saqr Ghobash in the 100 plenary session for International Labour Conference as a follow-up of Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, held in Geneva.
Ghobash expressed his appreciation for the efforts made by the Director-General of the International Labour Office in preparing the international report, titled "Equality at Work: The Continuing Challenge." He stressed the importance of what the report noted that institutional guarantees of non-discrimination and equality should be strong enough to withstand changes that might appear in economic and social conditions.
He pointed out that GCC countries are keen to fulfil their obligations to the principle of the elimination of discrimination and in conformity with the two international work conventions number 100 and 111, whereas most of GCC countries have ratified convention 111 and some ratified convention 100.
The other countries are determined to complete the procedures of ratification of convention No. 100 He noted that GCC countries have strengthened its programs to develop the role of women and enhance their political, social and economic position and increase their participation in the labour market without discrimination.
At the conclusion of his speech UAE Labour minister said that the report pointed out that GCC countries have allowed temporary foreign labour to get short-term benefits, such as health care programs and that they consider with great attention what have been mentioned in the report regarding the look to the future through the plan to eliminate discrimination. - Emirates News Agency, WAM
He added that GCC countries are implementing policies to promote national employment opportunities as constitutional obligation on governments as well as facilitate the movement of labour between gulf states within the framework of the Gulf Common Market.
This came in the joint statement of the Council of GCC Ministers of Labour, delivered by Saqr Ghobash in the 100 plenary session for International Labour Conference as a follow-up of Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, held in Geneva.
Ghobash expressed his appreciation for the efforts made by the Director-General of the International Labour Office in preparing the international report, titled "Equality at Work: The Continuing Challenge." He stressed the importance of what the report noted that institutional guarantees of non-discrimination and equality should be strong enough to withstand changes that might appear in economic and social conditions.
He pointed out that GCC countries are keen to fulfil their obligations to the principle of the elimination of discrimination and in conformity with the two international work conventions number 100 and 111, whereas most of GCC countries have ratified convention 111 and some ratified convention 100.
The other countries are determined to complete the procedures of ratification of convention No. 100 He noted that GCC countries have strengthened its programs to develop the role of women and enhance their political, social and economic position and increase their participation in the labour market without discrimination.
At the conclusion of his speech UAE Labour minister said that the report pointed out that GCC countries have allowed temporary foreign labour to get short-term benefits, such as health care programs and that they consider with great attention what have been mentioned in the report regarding the look to the future through the plan to eliminate discrimination. - Emirates News Agency, WAM
