An Assessment of Workers’ Rights in Three Floriculture Industries around Debre Ziet: With Particular Reference to Employment Security and Occupational Safety and Health

Degefa, Workineh (2014) An Assessment of Workers’ Rights in Three Floriculture Industries around Debre Ziet: With Particular Reference to Employment Security and Occupational Safety and Health. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Floriculture industry is one of the newly emerging industries of Ethiopia. Since its beginning in the early 1980s, it has created much needed employment opportunities for a large section of the population and helping the country to generate foreign exchange. Understanding its capacity to generate employment and foreign exchange, the government is also encouraging investors to invest in the sector. This paper was intended to assess the conditions of employment security and occupational safety and health of floriculture workers working on the flower farms based on a case study of three flower farms namely: Ever Green Farm, Minaye Flowers and Dugda Flora around Debre Zeit. This study used both qualitative (e.g. interviews and case studies) and quantitative (e.g. questionnaire method) data gathering instruments in the collection of data. Looking at the conditions of employment security and occupational safety and health of workers, results of both qualitative and quantitative data indicate that the workers in the three flower farms studied are working in poor working conditions. Workers are working in insecure working conditions and many workers are employed on temporary basis and have not signed contracts with their respective employers. Many workers lack employment security as they are vulnerable to arbitrary dismissal from their work. Yet, employers reject the existence of violations of employment security rights of workers and claim that the national labour proclamation allows seasonal work and they said flower production is by nature seasonal. Another serious issue in the flower farms surveyed is the condition of workers health. The exposure to harmful pesticides and deficiency of the necessary work facilities make workers’ working conditions harsher in the surveyed farms. In general, while the health conditions of workers are becoming desperate, prevention interventions are by and large neglected. Therefore, as a whole, it is concluded that the conditions of employment security and occupational safety and health of workers of the sampled of floriculture is poor. Considerable suggestion and recommendation was given to improve these conditions.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Emmanuel Ndorimana
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2018 14:03
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2018 14:03
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/4713

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