The Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment, Honourable Jean-Francois Chaumière holds a meeting today, Thursday 12 November 2009 at 11 a.m. with the Board of Trustees of the Trade Union Trust Fund. The Minister will announce in the coming weeks the composition of the new board of the TUTF.
The TUTF Board of Trustees has not been reconstituted in 2007 and 2008 as a result of extraneous use of funds allocated to the Fund. Government had then set up a committee to look into the proposals to review the TUTF Act and to better manage the Fund. The committee, chaired by Mr. Neerujun, Director of the Labour and Industrial Relations Division of the Ministry, has completed its exercise and submitted a report in October 2008. The committee has made some proposals for the amendment of the TUTF Act. Another committee has been instituted to study these proposed amendments and is yet to make recommendations.
The TUTF is a corporate body established under the Trade Union Trust Fund Act of 1997. Its objects are, inter alia, to receive and to manage funds and other property obtained from the Government and other sources and to provide assistance to workers’ organizations.
The Fund is managed and administered by a Board of Trustees appointed by the Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment, consisting of: 8 representatives of workers’ organizations and six representatives from the ministries of Labour and Industrial Relations, Finance, Education, Civil Service Affairs, Reform Institutions, Women, Family and Child Development, as well as an independent person appointed by the Minister.
The office bearers as from 01 September 2008 are:
(a) President: Mr. Deepak Benydin – Fédération des Syndicats des Corps Constitués
(b) Secretary : Mr. Giandeo Peeharry – Federation of Progressive Unions
(c) Treasurer: Mr. Pradeo Buldee – Mauritius Trade Union Congress
(d) Member: Mr. Serge Jauffret – General Workers Federation
(e) Member: Mr. Radhakrishna Sadien – State Employees Federation
(f) Member: Mr. Yusuf Sooklall – Free Democratic Union Federation
(g) Member: Mr. Cassam Kurreeman – Mauritius Labour Congress
(h) Member: Mr. G.T. Jadunundun – Federation of Civil Service & Other Unions
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