Values that can permit developing countries to fully exercise their right to development and working families to fully participate in the wealth they have helped to create. To do so, we need a holistic approach. We have reached the limits of sectoral solutions to integrated problems. But we don't yet grasp the full design, texture and color of the integrated solutions. We do know that we need a social floor for the global economy.
Decent work is productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.
Conditions in harmony with the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Rights and Principles. The long-term objective is to promote decent work in a sustainable environment. The immediate objective is to put in place a social floor for the global economy in ways that meet the concerns of developing countries and working families. The decent work agenda is an attempt to move towards an integrated development strategy, which links rights at work and social protection with employment and enterprise creation in a framework of social dialogue. Decent work is a universal aspiration of people everywhere, North and South.