Senegal/Capacity building workshop for health sector workers
Published on 04/11/2021 | La rédaction
Senegal
A capacity building workshop in the field of social dialogue, safety, health at work, gender and the fight against violence and harassment at work is held since Wednesday morning in Dakar, at the initiative of the High Council for Social Dialogue (HCDS).
This two-day workshop will make it possible to ''examine the fundamental labour standards, decent work, social dialogue and attributions, but also the different levels of social dialogue and the regulatory framework of the company social dialogue committee'', said the president of the HCDS, Innocence Ntape Ndiaye.This two-day workshop will examine core labour standards, decent work, social dialogue and attributions, but also the different levels of social dialogue and the regulatory framework of the Committee for Social Dialogue in Enterprises'', said the President of the HCDS, Innocence Ntape Ndiaye.
According to her, ''the HCDS and the International Labour Organization (ILO) Decent Work Country Support Team for West Africa and the Senegal Country Office have joined a dynamic process of social dialogue.In this regard, the HCDS and the International Labour Organization (ILO) Decent Work Technical Support Team for West Africa and the Seychelles Country Office have entered into a partnership aimed at strengthening the capacities of actors in public and private health structures.
The economic, social and health impacts of COVID-19 have brought the challenges of protecting the safety and health of workers back to the forefront.The economic, social and health impacts of COVID-19 have revived the challenges of protecting the safety and health of workers in general and those in the health sector in particular,'' she said.
Ms. Ndiaye recalled that "the health sector has severely felt the consequences of the pandemic both in its organizational and operational modes and in the loss of human lives.
In this perspective, she insisted on "the responsibility of the stakeholders, consisting in favouring dialogue over confrontation but also integrating in their respective actions the interests of the users of the public service".
Labour relations are not often a long quiet river on which one is safe from jolts that may result from difficulties in reconciling the economic constraints of the employer and the social demands of workers,'' she continued.
Innocence Ntape Ndiaye also welcomed the presence at this opening ceremony of her counterpart from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, who is in Senegal for a contact and working visit.
