Caribbean Resilience Project

Workshop on Labour Market Contingency Plan for Saint Lucia (POSTPONED due to COVID19)

The Workshop is organized by the Labour Department of Saint Lucia, in cooperation with the Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean. The Labour Market Contingency plans are planning tools to build resilience of disaster-affected and vulnerable populations through a both job-rich and inclusive recovery process anchored on decent work.

Offered through the ILO Caribbean Resilience Project, this workshop will help key stakeholders understand the importance of having contingency plans to anticipate the impact of disasters on labour markets and adopt necessary measures to mitigate them.

More specifically, it will have the following objectives:

Familiarize with disaster risk reduction initiatives in Saint Lucia
Present the results of the desk review on contingency plans in the Caribbean
Map key risks that would affect the labour market in case of disasters
Develop the template for the labour market contingency plan for Saint Lucia, jointly with stakeholders
Identify key contents of the contingency plan

The workshop will have a mix of presentations and group work. Presentations will inform participants about existing policies, practices and needs. Group work will focus on gathering information from different stakeholders to draft the contingency plan. Participants will include representatives from the Government of Saint Lucia, workers’ organizations, employers’ organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

The Workshop on Labour Market Contingency Plan for Saint Lucia is organized by the Labour Department of Saint Lucia in cooperation with the ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean.

This meeting falls under the ILO Caribbean Resilience Project 2019-2020