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Article 23,24,25 of the universal declaration of rights > Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of wo
by mejutoco 4y ago
Article 23,24,25 of the universal declaration of rights
> Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
> Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
> Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
> Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
I know reality often does not match, but if we are talking about rights, surely this document is relevant.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
- mariusor 4y agoI'm pretty sure that the first part of the quote doesn't mean what you're implying it does. The right to work and free choice of employment does not make one safe against not being offered a job or being fired from one.
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- atlgator 4y agoNot sure to what extent the United States acknowledges such things from the UN, but for our purposes let's say it does. An individual may have a right to work, but business owners also have a right to employ who they want (barring any unlawful/discriminatory practices). Put differently, losing your job does not infringe on your right to work, you just need to find someone else to work for. An individual's right to work and earn a meaningful living ends where others' rights begin. No one is obligated to do anything for you outside of relevant laws. It's on the individual to pursue work and a meaningful living.
- mejutoco 4y agoIt seems the US is committed to it (source: https://br.usembassy.gov/united-states-remains-committed-to-universal-declaration-of-human-rights/ https://br.usembassy.gov/united-states-remains-committed-to-...) I suspected the focus would be on the first paragraph, but nobody focused on the last paragraph > Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. This seems to contradict, at least partly, the man-eats-man attitude of no right for work that OP was expressing.