GREEN DECENT WORK AGENDA Social Security Systems, Decent Work and Wages Social Protection Floor Iniciative 1

Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization The four strategic objectives are inseparable, interrelated and mutually supportive (FoA and CB as priorities) State Responsibiity in defining National Strategies Tripartism as process Green Decent Work Agenda

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION NECESSARY CONDITION: FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION COLLECTIVE BARGAINING DECENT WORK Legitimate Space Of Participation To insure a First level of Income Distribution Distribution Skill First level of Income Distribution Between Work and Capital DECENT EMPLOYMENT DISTRIBUTIVE EQUILIBRIUM (social equilibrium) DECENT WAGE Green Decent Work Agenda

of income distribution between Work and Capital “REDISTRIBUTION” Comprehensive Overview of the Social Security System (Convention 102) DEATH PERMANENT DISABILITY TEMPORAL DISABILITY ACCIDENTS AT WORK MATERNITY ILLNESSS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT DISABILITY AGEING PENSIONS FAMILY ALLOWANCES SHORT-TERM BENEFITS LONG-TERM BENEFITS Second level of income distribution between Work and Capital “REDISTRIBUTION”

Political Sustainability: Participative Democracy DEATH PERMANENT DISABILITY TEMPORAL DISABILITY ACCIDENTS AT WORK MATERNITY ILLNESSS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT DISABILITY AGEING PENSIONS FAMILY ALLOWANCES SHORT-TERM BENEFITS LONG-TERM BENEFITS Political Sustainability: Participative Democracy Freedom of Association / C.B Institutional Strength Green Decent Work Agenda NACIONAL STRATEGIES NACIONAL PRIORITIES UNION PRIORITIES Distributive Equilibrium Wage Tax System Employment

Social Protection Floor Iniciative -Aims Provide a kit of basic benefits for all Avoid / Allievate poverty Support Economy (Domestic Demand) Support Production Recovering

The Social Protection Floor TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH Brazilian Example: Bolsa Familia Direct Transfers Creation of 10 million jobs and Increase of Collective Bargaining: SUCH INTEGRALITY MAKES THE EXTENSION OF COVERAGE IN SOCIAL SECURITY SUSTAINABLE HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH

The Social Protection Floor Ensuring a basic set of essential social transfer and services, to provide a minimum income and livelihood security for poor and vulnerable populations WHAT? WHICH STRATEGY? Horizontal extensión of Coverage Universal? (for everybody) o Focused? (on a target group below a certain level of income) WHICH AREAS? Health, food security, protection to children, unemployment, elderly

The Social Protection Floor ¿ HOW? Reference level of Income: WHICH IS THE FLOOR? Minimum Wage? - Basic Basket? - Poverty Line? Human Rights-based approach How to finance it? Taxes? – Reform of the Tax System? International Cooperation ? – Foreing Debt – WB? How to institutionalize tripartite participation in designing the system? Specific spaces of social dialogue? Tripartite social dialogue on wages or minimum salaries? Integration Mechanisms with Decent Work? Tripartite Follow Up Mechanisms? State and Employers’ Responsibility on the social floor and its link with decent work promotion

Two final ideas The importance of the relation between Collective Bargaining, Wages and financing of Social Security through sufficient wages, in order to guarantee current and future income The social protection floor can constitute an instrument to extend S.S. coverage to reach vulnerable populations; it has to be part of an integral sistem which nucleus is given by DECENT WORK and DECENT WAGES.

"Social Floor" and "Social Building" are two images to represent respectively the horizontal extension (population) and vertical (quantity and quality of benefits) of the Social Security coverage.

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