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March 17, 2012 13:20 PM ...
YANGON, March 17 (Bernama) -- Myanmar and the International Labour
organisation (ILO) have reached a memorandum of understanding on
eradication of forced labour, China's Xinhua news agency said, citing
official media report Saturday.
The MoU was signed by Myanmar Deputy Labour Minister U Myint Thein and the liaison officer of the ILO based in Yangon on Friday, said the New Light of Myanmar.
Myanmar has been cooperating with the ILO in combating the forced labour and is committed to eradicate force labour from the country by 2015, it added.
Myanmar and the ILO had agreed in January this year on extending supplementary memorandum of understanding on eradication of forced labor for one more year.
The extension of the understanding signified Myanmar's continuation of the cooperation between the government and the ILO and the move also confirmed Myanmar government's commitment to the prohibition of forced labour and guarantee of the rights of citizens.
The supplementary understanding supports the application of existing laws prohibiting the use of forced labour in Myanmar and it provides a complaint mechanism, facilitated by the ILO liaison officer in Yangon.
According to the supplementary understanding, Myanmar citizens, with protection from reprisal, can seek justice under the law if they are subjected to forced labor.
Myanmar and the ILO reached the agreement in February 2007 on the establishment of a complaint mechanism for victims of forced labor.
Myanmar government also claimed that it had exposed some forced labour cases in the country over the past few years based on public complaints and had taken punitive action to show its implementation of international norms on forced labor.
Meanwhile, Myanmar's parliament passed the country's Labour Organisation Law in 2011 and it started to take effect on March 9, 2012.
The law covers protecting employees' rights, setting up good relationship between employers and employees as well as forming labor associations systematically and freely.
The Labor Organisation Law was said to have been enacted in accordance with the provision of International Labour Organisation (ILO) and its recommendations.
-- BERNAMA
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