ILO provides a grant of $78,828 to roll out survey at workplaces

The International Labour Organisation has provided a grant of $78,828 to the Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations to assist in the rolling-out of the Nationwide Survey on the effect of COVID-19 at Fiji’s workplaces.

The grant agreement was signed by the Director of the ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries, Matin Karimli and the Permanent Secretary for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, Osea Cawaru.

Cawaru says the survey will assist Government to develop necessary policies to respond to the pandemic and will also help ILO develop employment-related programmes for its tripartite partners in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also expressed his appreciation towards the necessary support that the ILO will provide to their tripartite partners, the Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation and the Fiji Trades Union Congress to assess the impact of the pandemic on their memberships.

140 enumerators are conducting door to door survey at work places and will collect data as to how many people have been impacted by loss of jobs, reduced hours of work, leave without pay, unpaid time-off, paid time-off, job sharing or job rotation and working from home.

According to the Ministry, this survey is implemented to achieve a maximum number of participation out of the 24,000 registered employers.