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OJP Legal provides support in a two-day capacity building workshop on International Labor Standards (ILS)
OJP Legal provides support in a two-day capacity building workshop on International Labor Standards (ILS) with special focus on reporting on the ILO ratified Conventions
In an eventful of end-of-week activity, held at the Family Kingdom Resort, Lumley Beach Road, Freetown, on the 22nd and 23rd August, 2024 the national lead legal consultancy outfit of the International Labor Organization (ILO) - OJP Legal was involved together with all stakeholders in the Labour industry in a two-day capacity building workshop on International Labor Standards (ILS) with special focus on reporting on the ILO ratified Conventions.
Historically, Sierra Leone became a member of the International Labor Organization on the 13th June 1961 shortly after gaining her independence. Between that time to now Sierra Leone has ratified 45 ILO Conventions, and abrogated 8 of such conventions. The conventions that have been ratified by Sierra Leone exemplifies our political will to foster comity, mutual respect with other countries all in a bid to enhance and promote international co-operation between and among other states.
The primary objective of this engagement was to interface with the crucial stakeholders relative to the work of reporting on the different Conventions benchmarking the international standards set by member states of the ILO.
Different statements were made by the Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Security, The ILO representative to Sierra Leone, the Secretary General of Sierra Leone Labour Congress, a representative of the Sierra Leone Employers’ Federation and OJP Legal’s Osman Jalloh esq., who is the Lead National legal Consultant of the ILO.
The key stakeholders within the Labour industry positively accommodated the challenges that accompanied the task, and provided their fullest support during the plenaries to the OJP legal team as we populated the reports based on the unfiltered feedbacks of the stakeholders.
The engagement underscored that the raw data (report, statistics, technical information inter alia) can only be provided by the professionals and labor folks who possessed more than an armchair understanding of labor, industrial, employment and social security matters.
When all these were secured, the reports were harmonized as a mirror image of the true position of Sierra Leone. The engagement advanced a mindset which showed that the report to the ILO was not about the attendants, and the government alone, rather that it was in our collective interest to work together in the interest of Sierra Leone, and that was the sole ambition we had and sought to see bud to fruition. This particular workshop zoomed in on 8 different conventions namely:
1. Maritime Labour Convention 2006.
2. Prevention against Accident (Dockers) Convention revised 1932 - Convention No. 32.
3. Equal Remuneration Convention - Convention No. 100.
4. Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention 1985 No. 102.
5. Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention - Convention No. 111.
6. Fishermen's Competency Certificates Convention (Convention No. 125).
7. Accommodation of Crews (Fishermen) Convention, 1966 - Convention No.126.
8. Labor Statistics Convention, 1985 - Convention No. 160.
The reports gathered at the end of the day provided nothing short a picturesque of our national appreciation of the different conventions that have been ratified and the progress that has been realized over the period.
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