Employment and Labour engages stakeholders on draft National Labour Migration Policy and Employment Services Bill, 26 to 31 May

• Published date: 24 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

The Department of Employment and Labour: Limpopo Province is inviting stakeholders to make inputs on the draft National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) and Employment Service (ES) Bill.

This comes after the Minister of Employment and Labour, TW. Nxesi, published the National Labour Migration Policy and draft Employment Services Bill. The gazette is published for 90 days, from March to May 2022.

To ensure that the public is sufficiently consulted, the Department of Employment and Labour in conjunction with the Employment Services Board will also conduct national consultations.

Expected to attend the consultative workshop are: government departments, state owned companies, social partners, municipalities, religious sector, traditional leaders, research and academic institutions, international organisations, non-government organisations, and Constitutional institutions.

The workshop is part of a series of national workshops being held to ensure that the public or stakeholders are sufficiently consulted and provided an opportunity to make inputs on the draft bill and policy as well as seek clarity where necessary. The national consultative series is intended to improve the governance and management of Labour Migration in South Africa.

The workshop has been designed to achieve the following:

Facilitate the sharing of innovative practices related to labour migration governance, in particular putting into practice social dialogue by implementing a tripartite plus approach;

Disseminating information about the Labour Migration Assessment and the draft Policy with the largest possible array of stakeholders within Government, among social partners, within civil society and across SADC stakeholders;

Collect inputs to strengthen the draft policy

Conduct advocacy sessions on the two draft Employment Services...