ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—The Grenada authorities mentioned Tuesday it had filed 18 studies with the Worldwide Labour Organisation (ILO) in September final yr and is shifting in direction of a complete evaluate of the labor code within the first quarter of 2025.
Labour Minister Claudette Joseph informed Parliament that the federal government supposed to have the evaluate this yr, however that was not potential as a result of the intention was to conduct consultations with the assorted stakeholders earlier than the modification was offered to legislators.
Claudette Joseph
She mentioned that Grenada, as a signatory to the ILO conference, has did not adjust to the reporting necessities. Within the means of placing the studies collectively, a number of weaknesses had been recognized in home laws.
“I’m happy to announce to this Honourable Home that on sixteenth September 2024, we filed 18 studies that had been excellent, a few of them had been overdue by a decade,” mentioned Joseph, explaining that these studies vary from issues about workmen compensation in agriculture to occupational security and well being; freedom of affiliation and the fitting to arrange in addition to public contracts, safety of wages and the fitting to collective bargaining.
“One of many advantages of submitting these studies is that they permit states to readily acknowledge gaps in home laws…So in getting ready the studies for submitting, we had been capable of establish sure gaps that we hope to fill once we do the great modification to the labor code, which we purpose to perform earlier than the tip of the primary quarter in 2025,” she informed Parliament.
Based on Joseph, the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, which got here into workplace in June 2022, inherited a state of affairs on the Ministry of Labour by which the nation defaulted on its obligations below the ILO conference.
She mentioned Grenada wanted to adjust to Article 22 of the ILO Structure, which states that every member nation agrees to make an annual report back to the ILO on the measures it has taken to provide impact to the provisions of Conventions to which it’s a celebration.
“Grenada’s final report we filed was in 2015, so the nation was in default. The ILO conventions cowl a large space of social and labor points, together with primary human rights, minimal wages, industrial relations, employment coverage, social dialogue, social safety, and different points,” she added.
