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

《2020年新冠肺炎(杂项规定)法》由毛里求斯政府于2020年5月通过，将于2021年12月进行审议。2019年《工人权利法》(WRA)做出了里程碑式的变化，对国内工人和外来务工人员都产生了影响。受影响最严重的是旅游业和酒店业、纺织厂和非正规经济行业的工人。例子包括减少补偿、扣留工人年假、为合理终止工人合同提供便利以及雇主在裁员前免除与工人组织(工会)的谈判(Appleby，2020)。公共政策在为发展能力和自由选择提供环境方面至关重要。我们使用能力方法来评估修订后的WRA对工人、他们的机会集以及他们过上他们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名家庭佣工和移徙工人的调查数据，并与相关利益攸关方进行50次半结构化访谈，为共同编写政策简要和详细报告提供循证数据集，以便为政府2021年12月的审查提供信息。

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.