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The Minister of Family Inclusion and Social Development Fernando Elsio Freire also holder of the Work portfolio participated today April 25 in an awareness-raising action on good safety practices at work in the civil construction sector.The visit to the future installation of the Praia Technological Park is part of the IX National Week for Prevention and Safety at Work in which the General Labor Inspection IGT carries out until April 29 a series of activities aiming to draw the attention of the various subjects of the legal employment relationship and of society as a whole to the importance of health and safety at work.In the opinion of Fernando Elsio Freire in addition to the excellent performance that the General Labor Inspectorate has had there is still a long way to go. Firstly the Minister added that the Government will review the General Regime for Administrative Offenses in order to allow for a specific regime for labor relations.In Cape Verde we have a General Regime of Administrative Offenses that administrative entities apply but are not specifically suited to labor relations. It is necessary to create this framework and we are going to start this process he guarantees.Second according to the MFIDS the Government is approving the Strategic Plan of the General Labor Inspectorate which will strengthen its powers and allow greater intervention capacity in terms of prevention and punishment.We have to be more capable of preventing accidents at work. We are working towards creating a Labor Authority which will have much more presence because it will be much more independent from the Government will have greater intervention capacity and greater financial reinforcement says the Governor.
