Cushioning Covid-19 Shocks : Social Dialogue Encouraged In Workplace

The Minister of Labour and Social Security, Grégoire Owona has reiterated that social dialogue is crucial in handling the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in the workplace. He was speaking during the 26th and 27th sessions of the Social Dialogue Consultative and Follow-up Committee which opened November 4, 2020 in Yaounde.  “It is very important to make use of social dialogue as a mechanism to respond to the socio-economic fallouts of crisis,” the Minister said in his opening speech. “Social dialogue makes it possible to establish on solid foundations, the determination of employers and workers to carry out with the government, the common action required to overcome the crisis with a view to finding lasting recovery,” he added. The Minister equally called on stakeholders to be apostles of peace through a con...