EU bishops urge policy-makers to
shape labour policies according to common good
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| Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich, President of COMECE. |
In view of the 2019 European elections and on the occasion
of an International Labour Organisation (ILO) centenary initiative on the
future of work, COMECE bishops are encouraging the EU to shape the digital and
ecological transformations of the world of work aiming to the common good.
By Linda Bordoni
Described as a reflection paper, “Shaping the future of
work” was presented on Tuesday by the COMECE Social Affairs Commission at a
conference entitled “Shaping
the future of work – a faith-based contribution to the ILO centenary
initiative.”
COMECE, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of
the European Union, monitors the political process of the European
Union in all areas of interest to the Church.
Process of consultation and dialogue
The document, that is the result of a year-long process of
consultation and dialogue between the bishops, EU representatives and
faith-based organizations, highlights the role of work as an integral part of
human identity and an instrument to care for Creation.
While it identifies the challenges in the current shift, it
invites the EU and its Member States to take the ecological and digital
transition as an opportunity and to shape both trends towards a common European
vision of a decent, sustainable and participative world of work for all.
Reccommendations
Towards this aim, the
document suggests 17 policy recommendations that range from the
promotion of international labour standards and the social economy to special
provisions on tax justice and workers in transition.
Amongst the Catholic-inspired organizations who participated
in drawing up the document are the European Christian Workers’ Movement, the
International Christian Union of Business Executives and representatives of
Christian workers movements in the EU.
Participating in the event, at the headquarters of the
European Economic Social Committee in Brussels, together with EU and ILO
officials are some 150 representatives of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim
faiths.
Conference agenda
A conference programme reveals that participants will
exchange views on the "transformative changes" the world of work is
facing: "processes and innovations, such as digitalisation, globalisation,
artificial intelligence, but also the need for an ecological transition:"
all factors that "alter the conditions as well as our understanding of
work and employment."
The President of COMECE, Archbishop Jean-Claude Holleriche,
is one of the speakers at the conference.
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