EPRU - N - "Promoting Development Among Farmworkers

Download or read book EPRU - N - "Promoting Development Among Farmworkers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although employed, working and living conditions in the agricultural (and domestic) sector prompted Government to appoint the Commission of Inquiry into Labour-related Matters affecting Agricultural and Domestic Employees in the mid-1990s. [...] The Commission found that on a number of socio-economic indicators workers in the freehold and non-freehold farming areas were amongst the poorest employees in the country. [...] No.3, 1996, and the Extension of Security of Tenure Act of 1997 seek to ensure the security of tenure of labour tenants and farm workers by prescribing detailed procedures of eviction. [...] ESP take the empowerment of farm workers to its logical conclusion, in that such schemes aim at enabling farm workers to obtain ownership of part of the equity of the farm on which they work. [...] The improvement of farm workers' lives requires the co-operation of agricultural employers and employees, trade unions and the state and its organs.