October 7: World Day for Decent Work
October 05, 2012 at 2:58 PM
October 7 is the World Day for Decent Work (WDDW), organised by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
World Day for Decent Work 2012, will highlight the growing trend of precarious employment where workers face temporary, insecure and transient conditions—especially for young workers.
Youth unemployment is as high as 60 per cent in some countries, and a whole generation of young people faces exclusion from the labour market. This is a social and economic time-bomb.
“The crisis, and the inability or unwillingness of governments to restore jobs and growth, is having a particularly brutal impact on young people. Official figures show that 75 million young people are without jobs across the world, many millions more are trapped in informal or precarious work, and tens of millions of new job seekers have no prospect of finding work, or education and training to equip them for work in the future,” said Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the ITUC.
People taking part in World Day for Decent Work include young workers in Spain affected by austerity measures and Brazilian workers constructing the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic stadia.
The ITUC has launched a new website for the WDDW.
