{"id":4505,"date":"2025-12-16T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:46:35","slug":"%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85-%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%af-%d8%a8%d8%ac%d9%87%d9%88-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/?p=4505","title":{"rendered":"ILO Director-General Commends GFOW\u2019s Efforts and Trade Unions\u2019 Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Tuesday,16 December 2025<\/span><\/p>

Nabhan <\/span>Ahmed Al Battashi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Federation<\/span>
of Oman Workers (GFOW), received His Excellency Gilbert Houngbo,<\/span>
Director-General of the ILO, as part of his visit to Oman from 14 to 19<\/span>
December 2025.<\/span><\/p>

This <\/span>visit took place within the framework of the strategic partnership between the<\/span>
GFOW and the ILO, with the aim of reviewing the GFOW\u2019s experience and the trade<\/span>
union system in Oman, reaffirming its role in defending workers\u2019 rights and<\/span>
safeguarding their interests, its effective contribution to achieving social<\/span>
justice, and strengthening efforts to improve legislation supporting trade<\/span>
union rights and freedoms, in a manner that paves the way for Oman to sign ILO<\/span>
conventions related to trade union rights and freedoms.<\/span><\/p>

During <\/span>the meeting, ways of enhancing the existing cooperation between the GFOW and<\/span>
the ILO were discussed, as well as developing future areas of partnership<\/span>
between the two sides, reflecting the level of progress in dialogue and<\/span>
partnership among the tripartite partners in Oman. The meeting also addressed<\/span>
legislative amendments, namely Labour Law and Social Protection Law, mechanisms<\/span>
for implementing the priorities and pillars contained in National Decent Work<\/span>
Programme in Oman, and joint activities with the ILO in this regard. In<\/span>
addition, the efforts of the GFOW to strengthen social dialogue among the tripartite<\/span>
partners in line with international labour standards were discussed.<\/span><\/p>

The <\/span>meeting included a presentation highlighting the trade union structures in<\/span>
Oman, the number of trade unions and sectoral unions and their distribution, as<\/span>
well as the most prominent activities, programmes, and awareness-raising<\/span>
campaigns recently implemented by the GFOW. It also covered women\u2019s<\/span>
participation in trade union work, key legislative developments contained in<\/span>
Labour Law and Social Protection Law, the latest national legislation related<\/span>
to the protection of the rights of non-Omani workers, the GFOW\u2019s main<\/span>
memberships in relevant national committees, its memberships in international<\/span>
labour organisations, and the most significant international cooperation<\/span>
programmes currently being implemented.<\/span><\/p>

During\u00a0<\/span>the meeting, His Excellency Director-General of the ILO commended the efforts<\/span>
of the GFOW and the development of trade union roles, which are regarded as a<\/span>
leading model in the region, affirming his readiness to strengthen existing<\/span>
avenues of cooperation between the GFOW and the ILO in line with the<\/span>
requirements of the current stage.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ILO Director-General Commends GFOW\u2019s Efforts and Trade Unions\u2019 Roles Tuesday,16 December 2025 Nabhan Ahmed Al Battashi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Federationof Oman Workers (GFOW), received His Excellency Gilbert Houngbo,Director-General of the ILO, as part of his visit to Oman from 14 to 19December 2025. This visit took place within the framework of the strategic partnership between theGFOW and the ILO, with the aim of reviewing the GFOW\u2019s experience and the tradeunion system in Oman, reaffirming its role in defending workers\u2019 rights andsafeguarding their interests, its effective contribution to achieving socialjustice, and strengthening efforts to improve legislation supporting tradeunion rights and freedoms, in a manner that paves the way for Oman to sign ILOconventions related to trade union rights and freedoms. During the meeting, ways of enhancing the existing cooperation between the GFOW andthe ILO were discussed, as well as developing future areas of partnershipbetween the two sides, reflecting the level of progress in dialogue andpartnership among the tripartite partners in Oman. The meeting also addressedlegislative amendments, namely Labour Law and Social Protection Law, mechanismsfor implementing the priorities and pillars contained in National Decent WorkProgramme in Oman, and joint activities with the ILO in this regard. Inaddition, the efforts of the GFOW to strengthen social dialogue among the tripartitepartners in line with international labour standards were discussed. The meeting included a presentation highlighting the trade union structures inOman, the number of trade unions and sectoral unions and their distribution, aswell as the most prominent activities, programmes, and awareness-raisingcampaigns recently implemented by the GFOW. It also covered women\u2019sparticipation in trade union work, key legislative developments contained inLabour Law and Social Protection Law, the latest national legislation relatedto the protection of the rights of non-Omani workers, the GFOW\u2019s mainmemberships in relevant national committees, its memberships in internationallabour organisations, and the most significant international cooperationprogrammes currently being implemented. During\u00a0the meeting, His Excellency Director-General of the ILO commended the effortsof the GFOW and the development of trade union roles, which are regarded as aleading model in the region, affirming his readiness to strengthen existingavenues of cooperation between the GFOW and the ILO in line with therequirements of the current stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfow.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}