BRICS Employment Working Group to meet on 27-28 July, 2016 in Hyderabad

New Delhi, July 26 (KNN) With an objective to shape the agenda for Labour and Employment track in BRICS, first ever meeting of BRICS Employment Working Group (BEWG), which is essentially a Senior Officers Level meeting between BRICS Countries, would be held on 27th – 28th July, 2016 in Hyderabad.

Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour & Employment will also address the meeting hosted by India.  During this two days, there would be Sessions on, finalization of BRICS employment working group, presentation by ILO on “Employment Generation for Inclusive Growth”, presentation by India on possible social security agreements among BRICS nations and discussion on draft BRICS ministerial declaration.

BEWG meeting is a prelude to the Meeting of BRICS Labour & Employment Ministerial Meeting under the Indian Presidency, scheduled to be held on September, 27th- 28th,2016 at Agra.

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa  are the BRICS countries  five major emerging economies, comprising 43% of the world population, having 37% of the world GDP and 17% share in the world trade. So far, Seven BRICS Summits have taken place and the 8th BRICS Summit will be hosted by India during its Chairmanship in 2016.

The Labour and Employment Ministers of BRICS Nations met for the first time at Ufa, Russia in January 2016 to deliberate upon core labour and employment issues concerning them like informality in the labour market, labour mobility, and social security and ensuring decent work with the aim to attain the sustainable goals of poverty alleviation and employment generation.

BRICS countries represent the changing face of labour market and reiterate commitment to work more closely in the area of labour and employment and realign our policy tools to the emerging economic & labour market needs. (With PIB inputs)