COTABATO CITY – Regional officials, employers, representatives of labor and business sectors of the Bangsamoro Region have drafted a resolution to collaborate on special welfare and health programs for workers to promote their safety in workplaces and accelerate their productivity.
Labor and Employment Minister Muslimin G. Signed by officials led by SEMA, members of the Bangsamoro Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board, representatives of the business and labor sectors, and humanitarian organizations in the autonomous region.
Officials from the Ministry of Labor and Employment-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOLE-BARMM), led by Mr. Sema, and BARMM Chief Minister Abdulraof A. Macacua organized the summit as a venue for dialogue on how to further improve cross-section collaboration on interventions to promote the welfare of the region's labor sector and enhance relations between workers and their employers.
“The summit was a multi-sector activity. It was productive. It ended with the signing of good agreements for the region's labor sector, employers and businessmen who have establishments employing local residents,” Mr Sema told reporters on Sunday.
Apart from mainland Mindanao, business and labor sector representatives from BARMM's geographically separated Basilan and Tawi-Tawi island provinces also attended the summit held at the Al Nor Convention Center in Cotabato City over the weekend.
In a message, Maria Genlin P. Aguinaldo, Philippine Project Manager of the International Labor Organization (ILO), told summit attendees that the ILO will support all MoLE-BARMM programs for the region's labor sector.
Regional representatives attending the summit pledged to help BARMM combat child labor in remote areas and the use of children as combatants by their own families, who are involved in deadly clan wars. – John Felix M. Anson
