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ASIST Bulletin no. 10, January 2000 Employment creation without extortion Labour policies and practices workshop, Zambia By Tomas Stenström, ASIST, Harare In employment-intensive investment programmes (EIIP), the issue is how to manage large workforces in order to provide workers with decent working conditions and achieve satisfactory levels of productivity. National rules regulating the temporary employment of workers and small contractors working in employment intensive programmes are often either irrelevant, or need to be developed from the ground up The workshop held in Zambia between 30 November and 1 December 1999 was the first in a row of workshops planned at national level in countries employing labour-based methods. Some 25 participants representing government, employers and workers organisations, as well as donor organisations attended the tripartite workshop. The aim was to promote the application of labour standards in EIIPs, and share experiences on how unorganised workers and small-scale employers can best be served by existing national institutions, and how relevant labour standards can be progressively introduced. The immediate objectives for the two days were: to get the subject matter understood and to make an inventory of achievements and constraints in the case of Zambia and secondly to develop a concrete action plan with clear roles for the stakeholders to overcome the constraints that were identified. The workshop, recommended that: i) a task force look into the issue of how temporary workers in EIIPs could best be represented, and ii) a forum with all major stakeholders be established by March 2000, to discuss further the relevance of current legislation and conditions of contracts. |
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