(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The Abu Dhabi Dialogue 2 on labour issues between the UAE and the Philippines is making progress, building on the steps agreed on earlier in Manila to ensure a balance between labour supply and demand, and review the Framework of Regional Collaboration in the recruitment process.
Following a meeting with UAE Labour Minister Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash on Monday, Philippine Labour and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz told Khaleej Times that they agreed in principle to push these initiatives to the technical level for evaluation and training.
Labour and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz "The UAE," she said, "is still reviewing the draft agreements exchanged during talks held in May in Abu Dhabi. The UAEs proposal for the mutual skills recognition and certification of our professionals and skilled workers is a plus factor for us because the Philippines and the Asean have adopted this initiative years back as a regional qualification reference system. It means that a welder in the Philippines could work as a welder upon arrival in the UAE."
A unified labour contract that will address ethical issues, dispute settlements and role of the labour-sending country and labour-receiving country will also be under this initiative. "Even our mandatory pre-departure orientation seminar and post-arrival seminar involving the UAE will be institutionalised among the GCC labour-receiving countries," Baldoz said.
"So far, initiatives adopted by both labour-sending and labour-receiving countries comprise enhancing the skills of labourers, upgrading the recruitment process, ensuring a balance between labour supply and demand, and helping workers adapt to foreign employment."
The Abu Dhabi Secretariat is now preparing for the ministerial meeting in November this year, during which Saeed Ghobash, Kuwait Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Thikra Al-Rashidi and Baldoz will plan for the Abu Dhabi Dialogue 3 in November 2014.
Initiated by the UAE, the Abu Dhabi Dialogue was first held in 2008 that adopted the Ministerial Declaration in four areas of partnership covering the entire labour migration cycle intended to forge greater partnerships between six GCC labour-receiving countries of the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Kuwait and the 11 labour-sending countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
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