The next meeting of the Advisory Council on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Population of the member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held on September 27 in Sochi.
The meeting was attended by representatives of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States, the General Confederation of Trade Unions, the Interstate Statistical Committee and the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth, as well as basic organizations in the field of methodological and organizational and technical support of work in the field of labor rationing and training, retraining and advanced training of personnel on labor rationing.
The CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev sent greetings to the participants and organizers of the meeting. The greeting noted that over the three decades of its work, the Advisory Council has made a significant contribution to strengthening cooperation in the social and labor sphere. Created at the very beginning of the formation of the Commonwealth, it is one of the important bodies of sectoral cooperation, conducts successful rule-making activities for the formation of a common labor market, the development of its infrastructure, and contributes to the implementation of the tasks of the social policy of states.
“The innovations of the Council’s work were the measures taken in recent years to develop social services, pension provision, labor protection and rationing, the labor market and employment of the population. This year, the Advisory Council expands its horizons and holds a meeting within the framework of the VIII All–Russian Week of Labor Protection – a global discussion forum on many issues of social and labor relations,” the greeting says.
Sergey Lebedev expressed confidence that the work of the Council will continue to contribute to the preservation and strengthening of mutually beneficial cooperation of the CIS member states in their field, aimed at the benefit of the citizens of our countries.
During the meeting, the members of the Council considered 15 issues. Among them are the social and labor situation in the countries and the measures taken in this area, preparations for the Year of Volunteer Movement in the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2024, legislation and law enforcement practice of the CIS countries on providing benefits for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth.
The Kazakh side informed colleagues about the possibilities of a Digital Family Card, the use of digital technologies for the development of social protection of the population, the Russian side – about social service systems in the Russian Federation, the Uzbek side shared their experience in establishing targeted work with the poor, the development of entrepreneurship to increase incomes as a driver of poverty reduction programs.
The meeting discussed the progress of the implementation of the Plan of main measures for the implementation of the Conceptual Framework of Cooperation of the CIS member states in the field of labor rationing for 2021-2025, issues of platform employment and self–employment in the Commonwealth and the world and proposals for their possible regulation.
Representatives of the IPA CIS Standing Committee on Social Policy and Human Rights spoke about the development and approval of draft documents in the social and labor sphere.
In addition, the meeting discussed topics related to the population census of the CIS countries as an information resource for analyzing the state of affairs in the field of labor and employment, the implementation of the Action Plan for the implementation of the first stage of the CIS Economic Development Strategy for the period up to 2030, inventory and updating of the legal framework of cooperation, amendments to the Agreement on the Procedure of Investigation accidents at work that occurred with employees while they were outside the state of residence, dated December 9, 1994.
It is planned that the next meeting of the Advisory Council on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Population of the CIS member states will be held in the second half of 2024.
Press Service of the CIS Executive Committee
A source: https://e-cis.info/news/564/112390/
