ILO-Decent Work Team/CO - Pretoria

29/06/2018

Ms Maria Machailo-Ellis the ILO Senior Specialist, Employers’ Activities presents the findings of the EESE Survey and takes time to acknowledge the great work done by the consultant Business Inteligence Africa who understook the survey on behalf of the ILO

24/08/2017

Decent Work Academy

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The Decent Work Academy offers policy makers and development partners the opportunity to explore and debate present and future work challenges on the African continent. The Academy will draw on the experiences of leading international experts on labour rights, social protection, social dialogue, emp...

21/07/2017

ILO Pretoria hosting EPWP task team meeting on Social Protection and Public Employment Programme

ILO Pretoria Director, Dr Joni Musabayana opened and welcomed EPWP colleagues, appreciating the collaboration and partnership ILO has fostered with the Department of Public Works.
Mr Stanley Henderson, DDG at the Dept of Public Works, also thanked ILO for support and good partnership that has been built over the years.

19/07/2017

UN Celebrating International Mandela Day at the Adelaide Tambo School for the Physically challenged in Soweto.

ILO Pretoria Staff, contributing their 67minutes, doing good on Nelson Mandela Day.

06/07/2017

Compliance Strategic Planning Workshop.

The workshop was held at Thaba Bosiu Cultural Village, Lesotho 4 to the 6 July 2017.
The Strategic Compliance Planning for the Labour Inspectorate, is a programme that seeks to make the strategic compliance model actionable for all labour inspectorates, it is a six-step guided process to formulate, sequence, and operationalize, broader thinking and actions, into a winnable path to sustained compliance

Facilitating a prioritisation session during the Compliance Strategic Planning Workshop, is Andrew Christian Labour Administration and Labour Inspection Officer from LABADMIN/OSH from ILO Geneva

Valkyrie Hanson Technical Specialist for Strategic Compliance, from LABADMIN/OSH ILO Geneva with labour inspectors in Lesotho facilitating a resource mapping exercise during the workshop

22/06/2017

ILO Pretoria Consultations with Partners

Presentations shared by Partners, to empower each other on Decent Work, and building better relations.

Presentations, from NEPAD, BUSA, Global Labour University and the National Planning Commission

14/06/2017

Maximising Job Creation through EPWP
KwazuluNatal Draft Plan Workshop

The session was attended by 110 participants representing National, Provincial and Municipal entities in KZN Province.

The session
(1) identified barriers to implementation of employment intensive programmes and how to address them
(2) identified quick wins (short term inteventions) that can be implemented this financial year to boost employment
(3) mapped out long term trategies to enhance employment creation
(4) drafted a Cabinet submission on a turn around strategy for the EPWP in KZN Province

12/06/2017

World Day Against Child Labour 12 June

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31/05/2017

Training of Trainers: Male Champions for Gender Equality in Southern Africa
Ezulwini, Swaziland

ILO DWT/CO Pretoria collaborated with Solidarity Centre and LRS for the above training from 14 - 17 May 2017.

- Content of the Training included:
- The concept of Gender and its causality
- Gender as a human rights issue: Women's Human Rights - International, Regional and National Frameworks
- Gender as an economic growth, national productivity, competitiveness, human development and development issue
- Men and masculinities
- Intergenerational dialogue on gender equality and the role of men
- Transformational leadership

31/05/2017

Training of Trainers: Male Champions for Gender Equality in Southern Africa
Ezulwini, Swaziland

Participants receiving their certificates and signing The Pledge of Personal Commitment

26/05/2017

Training on ILO standards, application and interpretation of the national labour law
Maseru, Lesotho 22 to 25 May 2017

My name is Thabang Eugene Moeketsi, I am a labour inspector who holds the position of District Labour Officer in the District Laobur Office located in Teyateyaneng Berea. I have worked as a labour inspector for 9 years now. I attended a training workshop on ILO standards, application and interpretation of the labour law held at Cyarry Guest House in Maseru on the 22 to 23 May 2017 organized by the ILO Strengthening Labour Inspection Project in Lesotho. We were provided with a mumber of labor laws inclusive of labour code (Code of good practice of 2003) Workmen’s Compensation Ace of 1977 and Labour Code Amendment Act of 2000 and a carry bag for ease of carrying the labour statutes when going for inspections.
The experience I gained from the deliberations and presentations in the workshops is tremendous and it was an eye opener. We learnt about the application of the labour law taking into account the rights and freedoms of workers enshrined in the Constitution of Lesotho. We also deliberated on the sources of the Labour Code Act of 1992 being the Constitution, the Common Law, and ILO standards.
We also delat with workplace practices set as standard practice to ascertain their practicality and credibility in complying with the labour laws. We discussed ILO Conventions that have been ratified by the Kingdom of Lesotho and four fundamental principles and rights at work as well as the eight ILO Conventions that make them up. We also learned about ILO member states’ obligation to report on all ratified ILO Conventions.
The facilitators also emphasized the importance of understanding the powers delegated to labor inspectors by the Labour Commissioner who also has been conferred such powers by the labour Code Act of 1992.

26/05/2017

Training on ILO standards, application and interpretation of the national labour law, 22 to 25 May 2017
Maseru, Lesotho

Stories from participants

My name is Limpho Ramoseeka, I have been working as a Labour Inspector since 1997 at the Ministry of Labour and Employment and currently based in the Butha Buthe District. I attended a four day workshop sponsored by ILO through the Strengthening Labour Inspection Project which was facilitated by Tharollo consultancy in labour law and Human Resource Management.
The workshop has been very fulfilling in the sense that it has provided me with clarity on most of the issues that I took for granted since I deal with them on a daily basis in regards to application of the national labour law.
I have now been capacitated with skills and knowledge on application of the labour law. The provision of all the labour law statutes that we are supposed to enforce as labour inspectors. I want to that the ILO Strengthening Labour Inspections Project in Lesotho for the training, as well as providing back packs which are necessary for field work.