2000 NEDLAC SUMMIT DECLARATION
- The constituencies of NEDLAC: government, business, labour and
the community, reaffirm a commitment to social dialogue and working
together.
- The NEDLAC constituencies declare that in the coming year
social dialogue will focus on developing a common vision and
program for promoting and ensuring investment, job creation and
people centred development.
- In so doing the NEDLAC constituencies seek over the medium to
long term to make South Africa:
- The leading emerging market and destination of first choice for
investors whilst retaining and expanding social equity and fair
labour standards,
- A productive economy with high levels of service, a highly
skilled workforce and modern systems of work organisation and
management,
- A society in which there are economic opportunities for all,
poverty is eradicated, income equalities are reduced and basic
services are available to all,
- A society in which our people, our most precious resource, are
given the opportunity and support to develop to their fullest
potential,
- A society that can promote the values of social equity,
fairness and human dignity in the global economy.
4. NEDLAC has identified thefollowing national priorities:
4.1 Promoting and mobilising investment and creating decent work
for all
4.2 Ensuring economic empowerment for all especially for Black
people, workers, people with disabilities, women and youth
4.3 Eradicating poverty and addressing the legacy of
under-development
4.4 Strategically engaging globalisation to the best advantage
of the country.
5. To address these nationalpriorities the constituencies are
committed to forging a shared vision and set ofobjectives that will
include a mutually acceptable framework for analysing the nature
ofthese challenges and a common program of action to address
them.
6. NEDLAC will continue to striveto manage and promote the
expanding social dialogue that is an important feature of
ourdemocratic dispensation. This dialogue presents an opportunity
for the constituencies todevelop a dynamic partnership that will
facilitate the successful and mutually beneficialsocio-economic
transformation of our country.
7. The constituencies recognisethe need to commit to negotiating
a common understanding of shared growth and socialequity that will
provide the basis for all to benefit from the collective effort of
theconstituencies.
8. Constituencies will detailwhat each will contribute to
meeting the objectives of shared growth and social
equitythrough:
8.1. Promoting and mobilising investment
8.2. Creating decent work for all and promoting economic
empowerment
8.3. Managing growth so that it is sustainable
8.4. Defining how the benefits of growth are shared.
9. This vision will enable all tocommit to work towards
developing our country through the common knowledge that they
haveeverything to gain by playing an active role as citizens.
10. NEDLAC will continue toensure:
10.1. The ongoing efforts of the constituencies to make the
chambers of NEDLAC key sites for interaction and detailed
negotiation on priority policy issues of the day
10.2. The monitoring of agreements reached and programs
implemented by the constituencies, in particular the Presidential
Job Summit Agreements of 1998
10.3. The participation of the constituencies in increasing
international and regional process of social dialogue.