262 Seychellois, 198 expatriates made redundant
Two hundred and sixty-two (262) Seychellois and 198 expatriates have been made redundant, according to the labour department.
Director general for labour relation within the employment department, Steve Monnaie told the media in an interview yesterday morning at Independence House that from March to July 7, 2020, the department of employment in the Ministry of Employment, Immigration and Civil Status received 133 applications for redundancy involving 745 Seychellois and 466 expatriate workers. Forty-two (42) applications have been approved involving 262 Seychellois and 198 expatriates.
Key stakeholders from the employment department, labour associations, recruitment agencies and representatives from the Seychelles National Youth Council have learned of the different factors that contribute to multidimensional poverty in Seychelles.
People who are out of a job either as a result of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, school leavers or others are being encouraged to seize the limited work opportunities offered to them.
The private sector, through the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industries, yesterday presented its recovery and prosperity plan, a diureticto revive businesses, at the scheduled weekly meeting chaired by President Danny Faure at State House.
The plan is a proposal championing private-public partnership to re-build, re-energise and re-think the economy.
Some 15 housekeepers from the Coral Strand Hotel and another group of construction workers yesterday took their unpaid salary, overtime pay grievances respectively to the employment department.
It was around 9.50am that the group of housekeepers was seen at Independence House after they had been received by employment officials.
The employment department yesterday disclosed that around 228 Seychellois have lost their jobs alongside 392 expatriate workers who now have to go back to their respective countries, due to the adverse economic impact of COVID-19.
A large majority of these workers who have been made redundant, both local and foreign, were working in the tourism sector.
According to various researches, transparency and accountability have emerged over the past decade as key ways to address both developmental failures and democratic deficits.
Good governance in the public sector on the other hand promotes effective decision making and efficient use of resources, and it strengthens accountability for the stewardship of those resources.
President Danny Faure yesterday met with the team that will be in charge of the Seychelles Employee Transition Scheme (Sets), a temporary scheme to assist workers who will be made redundant.
The aim of the meeting which was also attended by the Minister for Employment, Immigration and Civil Status, Myriam Telemaque, was to discuss the addition of four new programmes that will work alongside Sets called the National Workers Preparatory Programme.
