OSUN Presents

Assessing Global Progress in Advancing the Job Guarantee

OSUN's Economic Democracy Initiative invites you to the next seminar in the #DemocratizingWork Global Workshop Series January 25 (online)
 
7am San Francisco | 9am Mexico City | 10am NYC-Montréeal | 12pm Santiago | 4pm Paris | 5pm Johannesburg | 8.30pm New Delhi | 2am Sydney
 
This webinar features speakers providing together a global perspective on these issues: 
Kate Philip, Programme Lead on the Presidential Employment Stimulus in South Africa
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Diego Guevara, General Vice Minister for Finance, Colombia
Daniel Rojas Medelin, Director, Special Assets Agency, Colombia
 
Discussants: Simon Azza (Advisor), Special Assets Agency, Colombia and Manuel Martinez (Advisor), Ministry of Finance, Colombia
 
The seminar is co-sponsored by OSUN-EDI and the DW initiative and will take place online.
 
It will be chaired by Pavlina R. Tcherneva (Bard College, USA) 
 

Register now: bit.ly/demwork_jg

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The job guarantee proposal charts a concrete path to securing the second pillar of the Democratizing Work manifesto, namely to decommodify work. It is an economic policy that provides open-ended public employment opportunities to anyone seeking decent, living-wage work. It is a structural stabilization policy that alleviates the economic, social, and political costs of unemployment and precarious employment. It is equity-driven and draws on a long tradition of human rights and social justice.
 
This panel brings experts and policymakers who are developing or already managing large-scale national employment policies informed by the principles of the job guarantee. There are multi-pronged strategies for securing the right to decent work to all and developing employment-centered economic policies. 
 
With the threat of unemployment still a significant risk to societies around the world in the aftermath of COVID-19, we must act to ensure that all people who seek a job have access to one, whenever it is needed, and which  allows them to live with dignity and contribute to their communities
 
About EDI 
edi.bard.edu
The Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) is the Open Society University Network's collaborative program that brings cutting-edge economic thinking, methods, and pedagogy to students to explore novel solutions to pressing economic problems of global concern. The research and teaching priorities of the initiative center on issues of work, economic stability and security, and public policy around social and environmental justice, and the structural determinants of inequality. 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5

Location: Online Event

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