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Sunday, July 6, 2025

ECA urges return to tripartite dialogue

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17 days ago
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Scores of police officers gather at Avocat Junction, Fyzabad, before the start of the annual Labour Day march in 2024.

Scores of police officers gather at Avocat Junction, Fyzabad, before the start of the annual Labour Day march in 2024.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

The Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion (ECA) has urged all stake­hold­ers to recom­mit to tri­par­tite di­a­logue, warn­ing that a “busi­ness as usu­al” ap­proach is un­sus­tain­able in the face of rapid change.

In its Labour Day 2025 mes­sage, the ECA point­ed to a con­ver­gence of dis­rup­tive forces—cli­mate change, eco­nom­ic in­sta­bil­i­ty, and tech­no­log­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion—as threats to both busi­ness con­ti­nu­ity and work­er sta­bil­i­ty. It said on­ly mean­ing­ful di­a­logue could pre­vent ris­ing in­dus­tri­al ten­sions and en­sure labour law re­form keeps pace with new re­al­i­ties.

It wel­comed ex­pressed com­mit­ments to re­vi­talise NTAC and mod­ernise leg­is­la­tion and called for col­lab­o­ra­tion to pro­mote sus­tain­able en­ter­pris­es, re­duce in­equal­i­ty, and en­hance so­cial pro­tec­tion.

The ECA reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to in­dus­tri­al peace and urged na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tions on AI, au­toma­tion, hy­brid work, cli­mate-re­lat­ed oc­cu­pa­tion­al health and safe­ty, and wage sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

“So­cial jus­tice can on­ly be achieved through sys­tems that en­able both em­ploy­ers and work­ers to suc­ceed,” it said.


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