A two-day national tripartite workshop on social dialogue (Sialkot Initiative 2007) concluded on Tuesday wherein experts and stakeholders demanded the promotion of the soccer ball industry of Sialkot.
They pledged to promote a social dialogue through training and ensuring the promotion of infrastructure of manufacturers and exporters. The participants also discussed the ways to raise awareness among employers and labourers about corporate social responsibility, social compliance, labour rights and safety issues.
Marlean Rueda, of New Delhi, Gotabaya Dasanayaka, of New Delhi, Sujeewa Fonseka, of Islamabad, Zafar Shaheed, of Geneva, Iftikhar Mahmood Randhawa, Prof
Safdar, Muhammad Younas Ratra and Sheikh Abdul Waheed Sandal attended the concluding session.
The workshop was aimed at raising awareness among social partners to advance the Decent Work Agenda in Sialkot, understanding the principles of social dialogue and its link with fundamental principles and rights at work, sharing good practices of other Asian countries on effective social dialogue and understanding the needs of various stakeholders and identifying ways to improve social dialogue at the industry and enterprises levels.
Mr Shaheed highlighted the principles and rights at work and discussed basic principles of social dialogue and its value in Sialkot. He also gave a presentation on the impact of the sports goods manufacturing industry in Sialkot and the need of social compliance.
Mr Dasanayaka spoke on the practice of social dialogue at the workplace in Asia.
Mr Li said the ILO’s experience had proved social dialogue was the best way to resolve all labour issues useful for productivity and social economic development.
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industries President Sheikh Abdul Waheed Sandal said the sports goods industry of Sialkot was alive to its corporate social responsibility.
Muhammad Ali Gardezi, Punjab secretary of labour and human resources) said healthy social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations were sine qua non for development of any economy and prosperity of the enterprises, as social dialogue was becoming more and more relevant in view of the challenges of globalisation.
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