A new social contract for a job-rich recovery

An SDG8 driven recovery and resilience - A human-centred recovery and resilience.

It is crucial that policymakers prioritise both urgent and long-term recovery measures, promoting societal well-being and supporting governance mechanisms to push back power imbalances and inequalities:

Stepping up investments in decent and climate-friendly jobs creation with just transition measures: Millions of jobs can be created through investments in sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy and energy efficiency measures. To guarantee that workers and communities are not left behind, just transition measures must be negotiated with social partners, and rooted in social protection, education, training and skills development.

Scaling up universal social protection systems: Although feasible options for many countries, where only political will seems to be the real determinant, this is not the case for the poorest ones. The UN Special Rapporteur’s proposal on extreme poverty and human rights for the establishment of a Global Fund for Social Protection is crucial to upholding the implementation of social protection floors in this respect.

Upholding equality and fighting vulnerability: Investments in quality public care services and infrastructure, the promotion of equal pay for work of equal value, and the introduction of minimum living wages with stronger collective bargaining remain the preconditions to gender equality, as well as education, skills training and life-long learning as measures for integrating young people in the labour market.

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