MTUC Urges President to Take Immediate Action on Ratifying Relevant Laws Regarding Labor and Employment

In an official meeting held at the President’s Office on Wednesday, Presdient Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has met with members of the Maldives Trade Union Congress.  
 
MTUC is not profit association that represents different labor rights, and acts as policy making body of the workers’ associations. It has a membership of over 10,000 workers in the Maldives.  
 
The focus of the meeting was to relay the concerns and challenges MTUC has noted workers are facing in the labor and employment sector of the Maldives to the President. MTUC members discussed the rights in sectors of fisheries, education, health and tourism sectors, with significant distress of workers in the fields.  
 
MTUC strongly stressed on the urgent need to address the matter of ratifying a law on industrial relations as soon as possible, which was also one of President Solih's presidential pledges.  
 
Further, MTUC spoke of the draft Industrial Relations Bill composed in 2013, a proposed compilation of several solutions to the numerous challenges being faced by the Maldives' workforce in all sectors. The bill was drafted with technical input from the International Labour Relations (ILO). 
 
President Solih addressed the concerns by providing updates of the Government’s ongoing work regarding the I.R. Bill, promising to submit it to the parliament for further procedure by October.