Benmeradi calls for humanising globalisation-caused changes

Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Mohamed Benmeradi, underlined Wednesday in Geneva the need for accompanying the changes caused by globalization through setting up mechanisms to humanize them.Speaking during the 320th Session of the Governing Body of the Executive Bureau of the International Labour Organization (ILO) devoted on the follow-up of the setting up of ILO declaration on the social justice and for more equal globalization, adopted in 2008, Benmeradi stressed the importance of a periodic assessment of this declaration so to reduce the negative impacts of globalization on the populations and the workers in particular.The Minister proposed to introduce the item on the follow-up of this statement to the agenda of the 106th works of the ILO in 2017 and the 322nd Session of the Governing Body of the ILO in October 2014.On the sidelines of the works, Benmeradi met with the Director General of the ILO, Guy Ryder, with whom he reviewed the prospects of the action of Algeria government in the field of Employment, Labour and social security.The Minister presented the conclusions of the tripartite meeting held in February and culminated in the signing of the Economic and Social Growth Pact.