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7th October, 2021: World Day for Decent Work Message

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Unfortunately, the current work goes back even more with the denial of labour rights, the deterioration of democracy, the violation of human rights, the denial of social justice, the rejection of pluralism, the eliminaion of secularism, the promotion of political hatred and the maintance of fundamentalism.

International Labour Organization (ILO) has taken on recently to improve the coverage and the effectiveness of “social protection for everyone” as strategic objective, focussing on income security with the target on the poor. This requires to identify profitable and equitable means by which the social protection can be spread to all groups. And it is necessary to focus on providing social protection to the informal sector. The prospect of “decent work” sums up the aspirations of people on their working life. It implies opportunities of productive job by providing a fair income. It requires security in workplace and social protection for families, through better prospects of personal development and social integration. It requires freedom so that people express their concerns, organise themselves and participate on decisions that affect their lives and the equality of opportunities and treatment for all women and men. In November 2018, ILO said that 31% of Indian workers worked in unhealthy conditions, while aroung 41% are poorly paid, placing India 19th out of 22nd countries of Asian region.

Sustainable growth requires good  health, nutrition and education. This can promote the transition from low-productivity and livelihood activities to decent and highly productive work, and from the informal to formal economy. An adequate social security promotes investment in human capital as for employers as for workers. It also enables to workers to adopt to change and makes easier fair and inclusive structural changes. As effective automatic stabilizer in times of crisis, the social security helps to mitigate the economic and social impact of economic downturns, to generate resilence and to accelerate the general growth recovery. We can learn a lot from the experience of developing or developed countries in spreading the coverage of contributory social security schemes to workers in informal economy.

World Bank has warned that COVID-19 has been creating a new generation of poverty and unease by debt, and IMF has said that developing countries ran the risk of going back a decade. The virus has enlarged the income or wealth gaps based on class, race and gender. Women has been affected, but also because they had to take on great part of additional burden of childcare when the schools closed. In some countries, women’s participation in working population has decreased to its lowest level since mid-80s.

In order to progress the comprehensive laws of social protection, it is necessary to ensure a minimum social protection net for all workers, regardless of wage, enterprise size and place of origin. Basically, it must be based on participatory democracy principles, inclusion, dignity, equaty, equality, accountability and transparency. Factors such as social spending, progressive taxatation and the functioning of labour rights must be the essential indicators to measure the government commitment to promoting the equity and reducing inequalities. Because governments have a key role to perform on creating an adequate environment in order to happen. In all aspects, worker organisations and trade unions must also fight for universal social justice and a humanist approach of political economies.

Message written by Movement of Christian Workers from India

WORLD MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIAN WORKERS

 

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