Every four years the regional meetings of the International Labor Organization (ILO) are held, with the aim of analyzing labor markets, employment policies applied in different countries, social dialogue and the application of international labor standards.
On this occasion the meeting was held in Panama City, with the participation of representatives from 35 countries of the American continent, the delegations of Latin America, North America and the Caribbean will be integrated by ministers of Labor and government representatives.
Venezuela said “present” with the participation of the Vice Minister for the Integrated Labor Inspection System and for Social Security, José Ramón Rivero, who firstly stressed that those who preach their alleged will to social dialogue, in practice they are separated from it, because they only star in confrontation and the lack of consensus.
In this same order of ideas, he said that during the installation and journey of October 2, 2018, it has been said that Venezuela is generating an impact in the countries of the region due to migration. Our government declares that the issue is being dealt with a broad negative approach.
José Ramón Rivero said, “in terms of immigration, our government advocates full respect for labor rights without discrimination.”
“We can affirm it with the moral and the experience of being a country that has welcomed more than five million people in the last decades, to whom we have guaranteed their labor, education, health rights and many of them have been provided with free housing”, he emphasized during the 19th American Regional Meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which takes place in Panama City until October 5.
“We have been in solidarity with millions of immigrants and it never occurred to us to pose this as a problem. Even today, with all the difficulties we have, we continue supporting immigrants”, he said.
“The situation we are facing is due to sanctions or unilateral coercive measures that freeze from abroad the economic resources of the Venezuelan people, is due to measures of financial blockade, persecutions, threats to suppliers, criminalization of transactions with the Venezuelan crypto-currency”, explained Rivero.
In this regard, he also referred to other actions “aimed at hanging a social emancipation process, to then raise in international scenarios that Venezuela requires humanitarian aid and is generating migration problems in its neighboring countries, all of which is ill-intentioned”.
Rivero invited the ILO to support the Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland) Plan, “that our government has designed and implemented, guaranteeing free air tickets to Venezuelans who wish to come back. With this governmental initiative, more than 7,000 compatriots have been repatriated to Venezuela, of which we have received testimonies of mistreatment and degrading working conditions by unscrupulous employers. We declare ourselves willing to continue debating on this point”.
He also detailed, about the elimination of outsourcing and other advances. He also explained about the scholarship aimed at the formation of more than one million young people, the “Chamba Juvenil” (Youth Job) Plan. As well as the payment by the National Government of three months of minimum salary extendable to workers of private companies, and other facilities recently given to the business sector for import and in the exchange scheme.
“May you count on Venezuela for the great causes of this organization and the pluri-polar world, as President Nicolás Maduro said in his recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly”, concluded José Ramón Rivero.
