Labour Mediation Specialist at MIFOTRA: (Deadline 28 February 2022)

Labour Mediation Specialist at MIFOTRA: (Deadline 28 February 2022)

Job description

– Ensuring the development of informed annual compliance plans
– Conducting compliance-based inspections
– Building competent labour inspection personnel
– Enhancing digitalization of labour inspection systems
– Influencing the review Laws and Regulations to enhance Decent Work
– Ensuring the establishment of partnership agreements with various Stakeholders
– Ensuring mainstreaming Decent Work into annual action plans by various Stakeholders
– Enhancing the role of compliance forums in promoting decent and productive work
– Ensuring the development of reporting templates for Decent Work mainstreaming
– Conducting trainings on Decent Work mainstreaming among Stakeholders
– Establishing Decent Work mainstreaming steering committee
– Monitoring the implementation of Decent Work requirement among successful bidders
– Enhancing the role of labour inspections with priority to Decent Work indicators such as: Notification and payment of employees’ contributions to RSSB, payment of employees’ salaries through banks and other financial institutions, issuance of employment contracts to employees, etc.
– Conducting awareness campaigns among employers through media, meetings and forums on formalization of informal workers
– Enhancing the involvement and partnership with various Government Institutions, Employers and Trade Unions in the journey to formalization
– Incentivizing formalization with various opportunities
– Monitor labour inspectors daily activities
– Analyze periodical labour inspection reports submitted by Labour Inspectors and produce consolidated labour statistics reports;
– Develop and elaborate technical guidelines for Labours inspectors;
– Develop mechanisms that promote good relationships between employers and workers
– Verify that the collective conventions are correctly applied.
– Explore tools and strategies for the prevention of labour disputes in the workplace
– Identify possible ways to improve establishments’ approaches in labour disputes prevention
– Develop knowledge and understanding of establishments on consensus-building approaches to conflict management and dispute resolution. Emphasis is placed on how to help the parties reach an agreement that allows mutual gains and a strengthened relationship between the parties
– Enhance the establishments’ capacity to effectively prevent and manage labour disputes
– Enhance and/or develop the knowledge, skills and competencies of labour inspectors on labour disputes’ prevention and mediation
– Identify effective conflict management styles and adopt situation-appropriate styles and processes
– Recognize the importance of effective labour dispute-resolution systems
– Apply best practices in preventing and managing Labour disputes
– Improve existing dispute-management processes, practices and frameworks within organizations
– Analyze and handle labour disputes referred to the Ministry of Public Service and Labour
– Manage and settle collective labour disputes having a National audience
– Follow up the development and conclusions of the Courts on labour disputes.