Indigenous Employment Policy and Foreign-Owned Corporation Employee’s Well-Being in Liberia

Abiodun Oluwaseun Oyebode,Daniel Denny Gray,Gbelimu Elizabeth Lawal,Taofik Olatunji Bankole

doi:10.24297/jssr.v14i0.8108

Abstract

Every country institutes policy to take a course of action in favour of its citizens’ welfare. The view of indigenization policy in alignment with employment and workers treatment in Liberia takes different dimension. Liberia problem of unemployment cannot be compared to its underemployment and bad working conditions. The Liberian Indigenous policy has not reaped its fruit with marginalization, exploitation dispossession and poverty in commonplace. This study addresses the ineffectiveness of the indigenous employment policy and the state of workers’ well-being in foreign corporations in Liberia. This study adopts cross sectional method, and employs primary data. Information from 400 employees working with foreign-owned corporation was extracted from survey conducted in 2018 by the authors on the state of welfare of foreign-owned corporations’ employees in Liberia. The key explanatory variables are healthcare, social insurance, safety measures, stable job assignment, stable work hour, promotion on the job, and job security. The binary logistic regression was applied using version 22 of SPSS to examine association between the response and explanatory variables. The outcomes of this study showed that indigenous environmental policy was significant with worker’s well-being (p<0.05). The study concluded that indigenous employment policy has significant influence on the foreign-owned corporation workers’ well-being in Liberia.

Highlights

As placed by the International Labour Organization, national policy framework for creating employment and supporting livelihoods is essential if Liberia is to lay the foundations for equitable and inclusive grow [13, 19]
This study is a cross sectional designed, and it employs primary data extracted from survey conducted by the author on the state of welfare of foreign-owned corporations operating across Liberia in 2018
Information on the state of welfare enjoyed by employees of foreign-owned mining, agricultural, industrial and services corporations in Liberia were elicited from 400 workers of these corporations

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Introduction

As placed by the International Labour Organization, national policy framework for creating employment and supporting livelihoods is essential if Liberia is to lay the foundations for equitable and inclusive grow [13, 19]. Tolbert in 1975 passed into law an Act for improving the livelihood of Liberians through creating employment and business preferences. This Act was not meant to discourage investors, which it never did; the underlying motive of the Act was majorly to safeguard the nationalistic nature of Liberia. It was widely and generally viewed by Liberians as an Act of patriotism that was to allow the people enjoy the good of their fatherland to fullest. To what is being witnessed today in the country, the perception of indigenization policy in alignment with employment and workers treatment in Liberia has taken a different dimension [6, 22]

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