The Department of Employment and Labour: Limpopo Province is inviting stakeholders to make inputs on the draft National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) and Employment Service (ES) Bill.

This comes after the Minister of Employment and Labour, TW. Nxesi, published the National Labour Migration Policy and draft Employment Services Bill. The gazette is published for 90 days, from March to May 2022.

To ensure that the public is sufficiently consulted, the Department of Employment and Labour in conjunction with the Employment Services Board will also conduct national consultations.

Expected to attend the consultative workshop are: government departments, state owned companies, social partners, municipalities, religious sector, traditional leaders, research and academic institutions, international organisations, non-government organisations, and Constitutional institutions.

The workshop is part of a series of national workshops being held to ensure that the public or stakeholders are sufficiently consulted and provided an opportunity to make inputs on the draft bill and policy as well as seek clarity where necessary. The national consultative series is intended to improve the governance and management of Labour Migration in South Africa.

The workshop has been designed to achieve the following:

• Facilitate the sharing of innovative practices related to labour migration governance, in particular putting into practice social dialogue by implementing a tripartite plus approach;

• Disseminating information about the Labour Migration Assessment and the draft Policy with the largest possible array of stakeholders within Government, among social partners, within civil society and across SADC stakeholders;

• Collect inputs to strengthen the draft policy

• Conduct advocacy sessions on the two draft Employment Services Amendment Bill and National Labour Migration Policy

• Ensure that the public is sufficiently consulted and to enable the Employment Services Board to adequately advise the Minister.

• To provide clarity on the two drafts, Employment Services Amendment Bill and National Labour Migration Policy.

The outcomes of the workshop are not only to receive public comments to strengthen and improve the policy, but also to encourage social partners and constituents involved in the policy development process, committed and supportive. Furthermore, create a strengthened Labour Migration Assessment and draft National Labour Migration Policy ready for implementation; and an improved capacity for policy formulation and implementation on labour migration within the Department.

Source: Government of South Africa