The Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ECA TT) has called for stronger, more struc­tured so­cial di­a­logue in its Labour Day 2026 mes­sage, urg­ing that na­tion­al con­sul­ta­tion mech­a­nisms be trans­lat­ed in­to mea­sur­able pol­i­cy out­comes rather than re­main at the lev­el of prin­ci­ple alone.

The state­ment said re­cent dis­cus­sions at the 114th Ses­sion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Con­fer­ence re­in­forced the im­por­tance of tri­par­tism among gov­ern­ments, em­ploy­ers and work­ers, em­pha­sis­ing that so­cial di­a­logue should be judged by prac­ti­cal re­sults in­clud­ing trust, bal­anced poli­cies and im­proved labour mar­ket out­comes.

ECA TT warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go faces mul­ti­ple pres­sures in­clud­ing crime, skills mis­match­es, in­for­mal­i­ty and rapid tech­no­log­i­cal change, all of which are af­fect­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, in­vest­ment con­fi­dence and work­force de­vel­op­ment across sec­tors.