Burma could create decent work by investing in health, education, social services and civil administration.
Like it or not, we have to win over at least some of the powerful in Davos if we are to avoid climate catastrophe, create decent work, and ensure decent public services.
In addition, the panel highlighted the need for the government to invest in education and training for young people, create decent work opportunities, increase coordination across sectors, and improve the implementation of policies and law.
I recently caught up with him to speak about why businesses should work with unions, the status of unions globally and why creating decent jobs is of critical importance.
Raymond Torres, the ILO special adviser on social and economic issues, said: "Only through deliberately improving the quality of employment for those who have jobs and creating new, decent work, will we provide a durable exit from precarious living conditions and improve livelihoods for the working poor and their families".
But it can drive everything else, and then you have ‑‑ for instance, owners of businesses are only thinking in terms of making money, not in terms of serving their customers, not in terms of serving their employees -- like creating a decent work environment.
It was a major program of public works to create decent jobs for people whose only crime was that the Depression put them on bread lines.
works with governments and partners to create decent farm and non-farm employment, providing technical support and informing policy dialogue.
The government could also create decent jobs by putting money into public works projects (and there's pretty much always need for things like highway maintenance so this wouldn't necessarily be a short-term solution).
O'Grady called for the implementation of a political action plan to stimulate growth, create decent jobs, new houses, and fair rights at work.
