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Within the framework of the second phase of Azerbaijan’s state programme for ensuring decent work new mechanisms and standards to determine a minimum wage will be established, Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alakbarov said in his opening remarks to the international conference entitled “The role of the state employment service in ensuring decent work: modern approaches and priorities.”
The programme’s first phase took place from 2007 through 2010.
Alakbarov noted that his ministry was interested in studying and applying best practices in the fight against informal employment.
“The ministry conducts an active struggle against illegal employment using effective mechanisms in order to improve citizens’ social welfare and future retirement benefits,” he said.
The conference took place in Baku on October 26 and was organized by the Azerbaijani Labour and Social Protection Ministry and the International Labour Organization.
It brought together representatives of employment services from the CIS member-states, Eastern and Northern Europe, in particular, Croatia, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Denmark and Sweden as well as ILO experts.
The international conference was aimed at studying experience of decent work promotion in Eastern and Central Europe, and at strengthening regional cooperation and knowledge exchange.
Source: newsazerbaijan.ru/
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