Lubango - The ministers of Labor and Employment, as well as the Social Partners of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), have been examining the documents drawn up by experts from the member states since Sunday in Angola’s central Huíla province.
Taking stock of the two-day technical meeting of senior SADC officials, the director of Angola’s Legal and Exchange Office of the Ministry of Public Administration, Labor and Social Security (MAPTSS), David Kinjica, said conditions are in place for the experts' recommendations to be assessed and ratified by the ministers.
The documents include the status of the signing and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Employment and Labor, macroeconomic and strategies to promote employment in the organization, as well as the draft model framework for autonomous labor dispute resolution systems in the Community.
The reports of the member states sitting on the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization, the inconsistencies in technical and vocational education and training in the member states, the organization’s action plan on labor migration and the implementation of the code of conduct on child labor are among the topics for discussion.
The Meetings brought standardized models to retain staff in the region.
David Kinjica, the spokesman for the event, said the challenge with regard to labor migration is the national qualifications systems of the various SADC countries, where standardized models have been proposed, similar to what is known as the National Qualifications System (SNQ) in various countries.
He said discussions centered on the NQS and the common standards that SADC could adopt to attract staff and increase their value within the Community, in order to prevent them from "fleeing" to other regions.
Kinjica said many cadres flee from Angola and the region, which is why the challenge they have through the SNQ has facilitated the creation of the National Qualifications Institute (INQ), which aims to create a system that values staff and harmonizes national curricula.
As regards the Code of Conduct on Child Labour, the official said that it was a deontological instruction on what countries should adopt as conditioned work, what is forbidden and what can be allowed for minors, seeking to find standardized minimum norms in the region.
Another aspect of the theme, according to the source, was the discussion of what child labor is, since the issue has a "strong" cultural slant in the societies of each member state, among other discussions for the prevention of child labor in the region. MS/TED/AMP
