Provide decent employment, ILO tells member countries

0
161

The International Labour Organisation (ILO), has advised member
countries to tackle challenges of poor working condition that would
hinder them from attaining the Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8).

ILO’s Deputy Director-General, Ms Deborah Greenfield, in its report on
Friday said that SDG8 was not about full employment but the quality of
employment.

According to Greenfield, poor quality employment is the main issue for
global labour markets with millions of people forced to accept
inadequate working conditions.

“New data gathered from the World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO)
shows that majority of the 3.3 billion people employed globally in
2018 had inadequate economic security, material well-being and
equality of opportunity.

“Progress in reducing unemployment globally is not being reflected in
improvements in the quality of work,’’’ she said.

The ILO deputy director-general cited a number of major deficits in
decent work and warned that at the rate of progress, it would be
unrealistic for some countries to attain decent work goal as set out
in SDG 8.

She said that quality and decent work were two of the pillars
underpinning sustainable development.

Some new business models including those enabled by new technologies
are threatening to undermine existing labour market achievements,’’
she said in the report.

Greenfield warned that unless policymakers meet the challenge
achievement in improving employment formality and security, social
protection and labour standard would be difficult.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here