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).