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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Sunday, May 24, 2009

The Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) presents the Progress on Labor Matter to the Organization of American States (OAS)

The Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare organized, altogether with the OAS, the Workshop about Successful Models of Labor Inspection, on May 19th in Washington D.C., in the Headquarters of this international organism.

In the Workshop participated representatives of the Ministries of Labor of more than 20 countries, international organisms and the union and enterprise advisory committees. The General Director of Federal Inspection of the STPS, Rafael Avante, presented the measures that Mexico has adopted to obtain effectiveness, impact and cover of the labor inspection, as well as the strategies to optimize the monitoring and supervision.

The representatives of the Ministries of Labor of the OAS, concluded that to face the crisis it is required to be alert to guarantee the respect of the rights of workers and to assure the conditions of safety and health at workplace to avoid risks.

During the meeting, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) highlighted the measures assumed by the Mexican Government to control the bud of influenza A (H1N1) that affects more than 40 countries nowadays.

This Workshop was part of the activities of the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor (CIMT) of the OAS, in which Mexico owns one of the three presidencies. Besides the Workshop, the CMIT celebrated the Second Meeting of Work Groups from May 20th to 22nd, which discussed the effects that the economic crisis has had in the employment and the labor conditions, as well as the paper that the Ministries of Labor must assume to surpass the crisis.

Within the framework of this dialogue, the STPS presented the components to support the employment, contained in the National Agreement in favor of the Familiar Economy and Employment to Live Better, subscribed on January 7th, 2009.

Also, the STPS presented to the rest of the Ministries of Labor of the Continent the Guide of Recommendations to Execute the Emergency Plan at Workplace because of the influenza, authorized by the National Consultative Commission of Safety and Health at the Workplace (COCONASHT), as an experience of mechanism of Social Dialogue developed in México to face the sanitary contingency at workplace.

About this point, the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor (CIMT), made a special mention to Mexico in the attention of the sanitary crisis provoked by the bud of influenza A (H1N1).

 


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