The increase in workplace accidents is one of the faces of the current job insecurity that many working people experience in our country and in other corners of the world. Faced with this “sad scourge”, Church for Decent Work (ITD) remembers that occupational health is “a problem that requires collective solutions.”
In his manifesto, “A decent job has to be a job”, made public on the occasion of the World Day for Decent Work, on October 7, reminds that work is always an “essential means for the recognition of the sacred dignity of people” and never “a punishment for people.” . For this reason, he regrets that many times some jobs are considered “exclusively from an economic point of view and not from a human perspective.”
The precarious situation suffered by many working people is one of the causes of the increase in accidents. Hence, ITD emphasizes that the lack of safety in the workplace is “especially worrying in feminized jobs” (cleaning, care, nursing…), since “there are numerous cases of skeletal-muscular loads, as well as mental health problems.”
Mental well-being – the manifesto points out – has become, according to an ESADE study, “one of the priority causes when leaving a job, followed by the search for improved conditions and greater possibilities for conciliation. ”.
For all this, the movements promoting ITD demand from the Government and socioeconomic agents “a job in which the health” of the workers does not suffer. “We demand, together with other groups of workers, the implementation and compliance with means of preventing occupational risks that defend the lives of workers,” he states in the manifesto.
Likewise, it asks Institutions and Administrations for a commitment to promoting decent work that avoids exclusion and precariousness.
One more year, the various Church entities that come together in ITD plan to go out the week that this world day is celebrated to walk or walk in their respective dioceses with the bib, which has the motto “Decent work, healthy work.” All people who participate will carry the number 071023, the day of the celebration of this anniversary. At the end of the tour, they will read the manifesto.
The Church for Decent Work (ITD) initiative began its journey in 2014 and is made up of Catholic-inspired organizations and religious congregations, among which are Cáritas, the Spanish Conference of Religious (CONFER), the Workers’ Brotherhood of Catholic Action ( HOAC), Justice and Peace, the Catholic Student Youth (JEC) and the Christian Worker Youth (JOC).
Its objective is to raise awareness, make visible and denounce an essential issue for the lives of millions of people: human work and to demand decent work “within these organizations, towards the Church in general and towards society.”
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