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conclusions and recommendations
• support and incentives to reduce precarious employment
and informal work
• support and incentives to reduce child or bonded labour (such
as provision of food programmes for children attending school).
• Provision of quality and safe work environments as a central
policy objective (not subordinate to economic policy) limiting
temporary contracts and precarious jobs.
• strengthening the employment component in poverty
reduction programmes.
• legislation, effective enforcement and punishment of
beneficiaries and sanctions on governments that tolerate slavery
or bonded labour and any form of exploitative labour.
Voluntary measures by employers/corporations have a role to
play but are insufficient and too fragmented to reshape employment
conditions and lift standards generally.
The role and participation of unions, social movements and
grassroots community groups is crucial. unions can generalise
collectively negotiated protections (nationally and internationally)
and, as evidence from poor countries attests, community actions can
act as an important impetus to government measures.
• Provide incentives for unionisation and collective bargaining,
as well as support the collective organisation of informal
workers.
• Develop policies that increase the rights and participation of
unions and workers in general, eliminating anti-union legislation
or other forms of institutional discrimination of workers’
organisations.
• implement policies, legislation and measures for land
reform and against capitalist speculation.
Examples:
• Policies of social Democratic Governments in northern Europe.
Development of more just redistributive economic policies as well as
social policies on social protection which reduce social inequalities.
• Cooperatives in Colombia, india, Venezuela and Mozambique.
Development of non-capitalist economic production built on
economic solidarity with new forms of collective, social and public
property, alongside private ownership.
• landless movement in Brazil and rural south Africa.
Pressure on land reform and against capitalist speculation.
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