Saly, Dec 17 (APS) – The president of the High Council for Social Dialogue (HCDS), Mamadou Lamine Dianté underlined, Tuesday in Saly (West), the need to have a collective agreement for the agricultural sector.
“It is paradoxical to note that the agricultural sector, which occupies a large part of the active population in Senegal, still does not have a collective agreement and still continues to be governed by regulatory texts, despite several previous attempts by stakeholders of the sector to equip themselves with a conventional instrument governing their professional relations,” he said.
Mamadou Lamine Dianté chaired the opening of a capacity building workshop for social partners in the agricultural and related professions sector.
According to him, this meeting is an opportunity for the social partners in the sector of agricultural and similar professions “to satisfy this grievance, by equipping themselves with a new conventional instrument and new job classification annexes more adapted to the profound changes in techniques and agricultural methods and the constant evolution of professional conditions and relations.
“This training session should be followed by a road map leading to the development of a consensual preliminary draft of a collective agreement which will, ultimately, be the new conventional framework governing professional relations in the professional sector. agricultural and similar,” said the president of the HCDS.
Minister Advisor to the Presidency Aldiouma Sow, coordinator of the political, civil society and unions pole, recalled the importance that the country’s high authorities attach to social dialogue and the agricultural sector.
For him, his presence at this meeting “testifies to the importance that the Head of State attaches to social dialogue as a means of pacifying the social field, but above all to the importance of having stability in the agricultural sector, considered one of the key sectors to ensure the systemic transformation of our economy,” recalled the official.
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