PEHIN Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia (Dr) Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong, Minister of Home Affairs, attended the 106th International Labour Conference (ILC) from June 12-14, 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.
This year’s ILC, held from June 5-16, discussed pertinent labour and employment issues related to the challenges of governance in light of labour migration, final revisions to the Employment (Transition from War to Peace) Recommendation (No 71), the abrogation of out-dated International Labour Organization (ILO) instruments as well as a recurrent discussion on the strategic objective of fundamental principles and rights at work under the follow-up to the ILO’s 2008 Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation.
Also attending were Dato Paduka Haji Mohd Mahdi bin Pehin Orang Kaya Digadong Seri Diraja Dato Laila Utama Awang Haji Abdul Rahman, the Permanent Representative of Brunei Darussalam to Geneva; Commissioner of Labour as well as representatives from national employers’ and workers’ organisations.
On June 13, 2017, Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia (Dr) Haji Awang Abu Bakar delivered his plenary statement to the conference.
He applauded the ILO’s efforts in promoting the need for systematic collection and harmonisation of labour migration statistics to counter data deficits on labour migration trends.
Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia (Dr) Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong, Minister of Home Affairs, with ministers at the Asean Labour Ministers’ breakfast meeting. – MOHA
In his plenary statement, the minister also commended ILC for arriving at its final discussion on Recommendation No 71 as an instrument that fully recognises the important function of employment generation, enterprise creation and entrepreneurship training in recovering livelihoods and promoting peace, recovery and resilience in the aftermath of crisis and disasters.
Prior to his plenary statement, the minister attended the Asean Labour Ministers’ breakfast hosted by the Secretary of Labour and Employment of the Republic of the Philippines at the Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the forming of Asean.
On the sidelines of the 106th ILC, the minister also had the opportunity to meet with the Minister of Manpower of the Republic of Singapore Lim Swee Say.
During the conference, ministers mutually exchanged best practices on skills development in the context of manpower and employment.
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