Ulaanbaatar
Labor Minister attends G7 Employment and Development Ministers Meeting
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Mongolian Minister of Labor G.Bayarsaikhan has participated in the G7 Employment and Development Ministers Meeting which was October 12-13 in Berlin, Germany.
Representing the government of Mongolia, the Minister has attended the Meeting as the special guest invited by the G7. This time, the Meeting ran under an initiative called “Cooperation for sustainable network of supply and sales”.
Mongolia’s current policy on supporting labor has attracted attention of the G7 participants, said Mr Gerd Muller, Germany’s Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, at the Meeting.
In his speech, Mr Bayarsaikhan noted that Mongolia joined the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1968 and that Mongolia has become one of the first Asian countries to join the 17 international conventions on labor, including the eight basic conventions of the ILO, "in 2015, Mongolia enrolled to the ILO 88th Convention on employment services and the 181st Convention on private services of employment". Mr Bayasaikhan underlined an importance of supporting appropriate labor with the network of sustainable sales and supply, and said Mongolia appreciated requirements for improving the legal environment for labor, working situation and effectiveness, augmenting job places and developing the social partnership. Our parliament is discussing a draft new version of the labor law which aims to expand the labor relations and range, and to regulate essential rights in job places, the right on uniting, abolishment of child labor and banning forced labor.
He hoped that the G7 Employment and Development Ministers Meeting will play a vital role in broadening the initiative of supporting appropriate labor with the network of sustainable sales and supply and boosting international collaboration.
