Labor Management Procedures Building Beirut Businesses Back & Better (B5) Fund (P176013) (English)

Through the LMP, Kafalat SAL ensures that its activities comply with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) of the WB’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF), in particular ESS2 (Labor and Working Conditions) and the requirements of the national law. [...] The Decree comprises the following chapters: • Chapter 1: Prevention and safety • Chapter 2: Health • Chapter 3: Safe use of chemicals at work • Chapter 4: Prevention from the dangers of working with benzene • Chapter 5: General provisions The said decree sets that the employer should: • Install safety provisions and measures to prevent any risks to the health and safety of the workers and limits [...] Ensure that the terms of employment and working conditions of all the Project workers meet the requirements of the labour legislation of Lebanon and the ILO conventions to which Lebanon is a signatory; v. Be intolerant of, and enforce disciplinary measures for illegal activities. [...] Minimize the risk of pandemic notably COVID-19 transmission and to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 associated with the execution of the Works; • Kafalat SAL has a systematic approach to health, safety, security and social and environmental management designed to ensure compliance with the law through the implementation and use of the ESMS; • Kafalat SAL trains their employees and requires the par [...] Kafalat SAL shall maintain, throughout the Project implementation, and publicize the availability of a GM, in form and substance satisfactory to the WB, to hear and determine fairly and in good faith all complaints raised by the Project’s workers in relation to the Project, and take all measures necessary to implement the determinations made by such mechanism in a manner satisfactory to the Bank.