TOWARDS A LABOR RIGHT WITH A HUMAN FACE

Abstract

There can be no development without human rights, just as there are no human rights without development. Furthermore, peace and security are essential for development and respect for human rights. A phrase that sums up and frames very well what the 2030 Agenda means: a roadmap to the world that we want and that we are already building. To help stabilize an economic model in democracy that puts the human person at the center and promotes social inclusion must create conditions that allow decent work. The challenges posed by globalization need human faces for world, regional and national development, through the reaffirmation of essential and universal values. In this context, work constitutes an ethical value, a decisive and determining factor for production. From this premise arises the right to work as a source of personal dignity, family stability and consolidation of social cohesion. It synthesizes the aspirations of people during their working life. It means the opportunity to access a productive job that generates a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families; better prospects for personal development and social integration, and equal opportunities and treatment for women and men. Decent Work, that ethical-evaluative assessment designed by the ILO in the 90s at the 89th annual meeting, today in 2021 is still a search paradigm. We are convinced that the worker must be the central axis of the system, subject to preferential guardianship. For this we need all workers to respect their fundamental labor principles and rights, enjoy a fair income, a work environment without gender discrimination or of any other type, where social protection is provided.