World Day for Decent Work

The World Day for Decent Work ( WFMA , English world day for decent work , WDDW ) is celebrated annually on October 7th .

history

The day of action was launched by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) when it was founded in 2006 as an international day for good work . The day was celebrated for the first time in 2008.

On this day, unions around the world and publicly advocate the creation of decent working conditions, thereby highlighting a key concern of the ITUC. The IGB understands this to mean, in a comprehensive sense, in particular a ban on child labor , measures that counteract discrimination against women in the workplace ( equality ), work towards "high quality public services ", protection of the environment , adequate occupational health and safety for employees and a adequate social security . In Germany, among other things, reference is made to the dwindling normal employment relationship and the advance of atypical employment and the expansion of the low-wage sector . In 2013, the German Federation of Trade Unions and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation organized an international conference on the occasion of the WFMA to discuss the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany.

Web links

World Day for Decent Work. Homepage.
IGB (Ed.): Decent Work in ITUC Congress Resolutions(PDF; 307 kB) . Brochure. Brussels December 2010, accessed 8 October 2013.
Justice for Working People. Climate justice. WFMA 2014. ITUC website for the 2014 Day of Action.

Individual evidence

↑ International Trade Union Confederation: Unions around the world mobilize on October 7th . Retrieved November 18, 2016.
^ ITUC Brochure 2010, p. 3: The second ITUC World Congress in Vancouver prepared the third World Day in 2010.
↑ ^a ^b IGB brochure 2010, summary in the documentation.
↑ Federation of trade unions demands equal pay for equal work . In: The West. October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
^ Stephan Maas: Debate on minimum wages. DGB conference on World Day for Decent Work . In: Deutschlandfunk. Economy and society. October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2013.

[1] International Trade Union Confederation: Unions around the world mobilize on October 7th . Retrieved November 18, 2016.

[2] ITUC Brochure 2010, p. 3: The second ITUC World Congress in Vancouver prepared the third World Day in 2010.

[igb-broschuere-2010-3] IGB brochure 2010, summary in the documentation.

[4] Federation of trade unions demands equal pay for equal work . In: The West. October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2013.

[5] Stephan Maas: Debate on minimum wages. DGB conference on World Day for Decent Work . In: Deutschlandfunk. Economy and society. October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2013.