People who are out of a job either as a result of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, school leavers or others are being encouraged to seize the limited work opportunities offered to them.
The private sector, through the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industries, yesterday presented its recovery and prosperity plan, a diureticto revive businesses, at the scheduled weekly meeting chaired by President Danny Faure at State House.
The plan is a proposal championing private-public partnership to re-build, re-energise and re-think the economy.
Some 15 housekeepers from the Coral Strand Hotel and another group of construction workers yesterday took their unpaid salary, overtime pay grievances respectively to the employment department.
It was around 9.50am that the group of housekeepers was seen at Independence House after they had been received by employment officials.
The employment department yesterday disclosed that around 228 Seychellois have lost their jobs alongside 392 expatriate workers who now have to go back to their respective countries, due to the adverse economic impact of COVID-19.
A large majority of these workers who have been made redundant, both local and foreign, were working in the tourism sector.
According to various researches, transparency and accountability have emerged over the past decade as key ways to address both developmental failures and democratic deficits.
Good governance in the public sector on the other hand promotes effective decision making and efficient use of resources, and it strengthens accountability for the stewardship of those resources.
President Danny Faure yesterday met with the team that will be in charge of the Seychelles Employee Transition Scheme (Sets), a temporary scheme to assist workers who will be made redundant.
The aim of the meeting which was also attended by the Minister for Employment, Immigration and Civil Status, Myriam Telemaque, was to discuss the addition of four new programmes that will work alongside Sets called the National Workers Preparatory Programme.
Employees and stakeholders in the private sector yesterday took part in a meeting, coordinated by the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to learn more about the Seychelles Employee Transition Scheme, its structure and how it will discharge its mandate.
A temporary scheme to help workers who will lose their job as from July 1 up to December 2020, the Seychelles Employee Transition Scheme (Sets) is an emergency support mechanism put in place by the government to work alongside the Financial Assistance for Job Retention (FA4JR).
The SADC Private Sector Forum (SPSF) – the unifying voice on regional policies, priorities, issues, and programmes – has launched the ground-breaking SADC Labour Law Guide, an online tool that provides up-to-date labour laws from the region in one central location.
This first-of-its-kind digital resource is accessible on desktop, tablets, and mobiles and available in three languages – English, French and Portuguese.
