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Kuwait removed from least labour law complying nations an achievement - minister |
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Monday, 21 June 2010 23:41 |
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KUWAIT, June 21 (KUNA) -- Minister for Social Affairs and Labour Mohammad Al-Afasi has said it was an achievement that Kuwait was omitted from the International Labour Organization's (ILO) least conforming nations to international labour standards.
Talking to KUNA following the Kuwaiti Cabinet's weekly session late Sunday, the minister said that a report Kuwait had presented to the ILO outlined recent decisions taken on labour and the disabled which received a warm welcome from attendees of the 186-nation conference.
The report illustrated laws namely through which foreign labour in the country can now change their job without having to take permission from their sponsors, and through which employers must determine minimum worker wages and their work hours under tough conditions.
Minister Al-Afasi, who had headed the delegation that submitted the report in Geneva, said that Kuwait's record as a least complying nation with ILO standards was clean.
He attributed the achievement to the wise directions of the Kuwaiti political leadership, and to the cooperation between the executive and legislative bodies in the country.
The Cabinet in a statement issued a night earlier, commended the "crucial and positive role carried out by the Kuwaiti delegation headed by Al-Afasi during the ILO conference." The statement also hailed the delegation's "presentation of Kuwait's true stance towards the varied issues of concern, and its protection of human rights due to its innate faith in such principles." - Kuna
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