Cameroon joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 136th edition of the International Labour Day under the theme "Labour World: combatting Covid-19, safeguarding jobs and ensuring productivity". The day is marked to raise public awareness about workers’ rights as well as to recognise their accomplishments.

People across the globe observe International Labour Day elsewhere called International Worker's Day on May 1^st. The day draws its origins from the labour union movement which instituted the eight-hour day principle believing the worker’s day was to comprise eight hours of work, eight hours of recreation, and eight hours of rest.

The peculiarity of this year's celebration is that the much-expected parade could not take place, just as in the past two years, certainly due to the resurgence of some resistant strains of the coronavirus, calling for increased vigilance and respect of barrier measures. That notwithstanding, Mr. Auguste Mbappe Penda, CNSC's General Manager saw it necessary to celebrate his staff on this day and offered to have a family meal with them. He equally used this occasion to applaud the efforts of various CNSC service departments and renewed his commitment to providing staff with better working conditions.

Before May Day celebrations, CNSC’s Sports and Cultural Association organised activities such as a fitness walk, a sensitisation seminar on mental health and workplace-related stress, the screening of a film on the value of work and the ordeals of unemployment, as well as a gala match at the Bépanda Annex Stadium.