Díaz presents the International Labour Congress: 'Madrid will become the global capital of decent work'

The Second Vice-President and Minister for work and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, during the presentation of the International Labour Congress

About the event, which is expected to be attended by a dozen labour ministers from countries including Belgium, Cape Verde, Colombia, Slovenia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nepal, Palestine, Senegal and South Africa, and former labour ministers from Argentina, Italy and Portugal, among others, the second vice-president said that "Madrid will become the global capital of decent work".

The conference, which will feature a number of presentations focusing on the present and future of the labour market and the advancement of workers' rights, will also be attended by the European Union Commissioner for Employment, the Chair of the Employment Committee of the European Parliament, the President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and MEPs and presidents of European agencies such as Eurofound and EU OSHA (occupational safety and health).

Experts from civil society, such as jurists and intellectuals of the stature of Owen Jones, Catherine Barnard, Paris Marx, Laura Calafà and Remedios Zafra, among others, will also take part.

The meeting is a space for reflection in a context marked by a climate emergency that is already transforming the world of work, increasing inequalities and racist discourses, and constant attacks on feminist and LGTBI advances.

The challenges posed in the field of work by algorithmic slavery, the shielding of trade union power and the imperative of advancing democracy at work will be addressed. Among the topics to be analysed are how to strengthen social dialogue and how to depatriarchalise the world of work, and the constitution of a front that unites workers from the global South and North, identifying priorities for action for the protection and expansion of labour rights around the world.

This congress will examine the present and the future of work. "This is a step forward in making decent work an indispensable instrument of democracies", the vice-president stressed.

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