ADDIS ABABA – Confederation of Ethiopian Employers’ Federation (CEEF) disclosed that employers should adhere to national and international laws to ensure the rights and benefits of workers.
An awareness creation workshop was held yesterday to raise stakeholders’ understanding about the Pension Proclamation No. 1275/2021 organized by CEEF in collaboration with Private Organization Employees Social Security Administration (POESSA).
On the occasion, Getahun noted that employers should act upon the national and international laws on protecting employees to reduce unnecessary risks and be profitable.
Several employers have been exposing their businesses to difficult situation due to their awareness gap. For instance, a company was lost up to 46 million Birr due to the existing knowledge gap about the national proclamation, he said without mentioning names.
“Filling the awareness gap among employers would bring paramount significances such as producing competitive and creative workers, ensuring social security, exercising social dialogue, and the likes,” he underlined.
POESSA Operation Department Deputy CEO, Meseret Zeleke on his part said that employers have been playing vital role in creating jobs and stabilizing the country’s macro economy.
However, he noted that they have knowledge gaps especially about protecting the rights and benefits of workers.
Meseret stated that such awareness creation workshops help to identify the existing problems, direct relevant solution, create productive citizens and raise understanding and the likes.
Presenting an initial discussion paper, POESSA’s Law Affairs Director Girma Sisay said, “Knowledgeable investors in the workers area would play indispensable role in ensuring social stability, solving the problem easily, responding the duty properly and encouraging solidarity.”
He added that the proclamation helps to raising stakeholders’ awareness, creating enabling environment for employers’ and employees and deepening social ties.
Of course, there is existing procedural gaps inclusively law expertise in the area so that the country needs to establish a platform to create smooth relationship between the employers’ and employees as well as translating the international law on related issues.
BY MESERET BEHAILU
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD THURSDAY 18 JULY 2024
