GCRF_NF127 A capabilities assessment of Covid-19 changes to the Workers' Rights Act in Mauritius:implications for domestic and migrant workers

GCRF_NF127 对毛里求斯工人权利法的 Covid-19 变更的能力评估：对家庭工人和移民工人的影响

• 批准号: EP/V029193/1
• 负责人: Pratima Sambajee
• 金额: $ 25.43万
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV029193%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF_NF127; capabilities; assessment; Covid; 19

The COVID-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 was passed by the Government of Mauritius in May 2020 and will be reviewed in December 2021. Landmark changes were made to the Workers' Rights Act (WRA) 2019 which are impacting both domestic and migrant workers. The hardest hit are workers in tourism and hospitality, textile factories and the informal economy. Examples include reduced compensation, withholding of workers'annual leave, facilitation of justified termination of workers' contracts and exemption from negotiations with workers' organisations (unions) by employers prior to reduction of the workforce (Appleby, 2020). Public policies are critical in providing an environment for the development of capabilities and freedom of choice. We use a capabilities approach to assess the impact of the amended WRA on workers, their opportunity set and their freedom to lead lives they value. We will collect survey data from 1200 domestic and migrant workers from Bangladesh and conduct 50 semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders to produce evidence-based datasets for the co-development of a policy brief and detailed report in order to inform the Government's review in December 2021.

毛里求斯政府于 2020 年 5 月通过了《2020 年 COVID-19（杂项规定）法》，并将于 2021 年 12 月进行审查。《2019 年工人权利法》(WRA) 发生了里程碑式的变化，对家庭工人和移民工人都有影响。受影响最严重的是旅游业和酒店业、纺织厂和非正规经济部门的工人。例子包括减少薪酬、扣留工人年假、促进合理终止工人合同以及雇主在裁员之前免除与工人组织（工会）的谈判（Appleby，2020）。公共政策对于为能力发展和选择自由提供环境至关重要。我们使用能力方法来评估修订后的 WRA 对工人、他们的机会以及他们过上自己所珍视的生活的自由的影响。我们将收集来自孟加拉国的 1200 名家政工人和移民工人的调查数据，并对相关利益攸关方进行 50 次半结构化访谈，以生成循证数据集，以便共同制定政策简报和详细报告，为政府 12 月份的审查提供信息2021 年。

项目成果

Quality of Life & Work in Mauritius and Covid-19

生活质量

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Sambajee P

Workers' rights and the capability to function through changes in social policy: Evidence from Mauritius

工人的权利和通过社会政策变化发挥作用的能力：来自毛里求斯的证据

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Sambajee P