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06 Jan 12
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Dignity of work
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Employers must not "look upon their work people as their bondsmen, but ... respect in every man his dignity as a person ennobled by Christian character
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Workers have a right to work, to earn a living wage, and to form trade unions[45] to protect their interests. All workers have a right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, and to safe working conditions
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Workers also have responsibilities—to provide a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, to treat employers and co-workers with respect, and to carry out their work in ways that contribute to the common good. Workers must "fully and faithfully" perform the work they have agreed to do
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29 May 08
Peter MudgeOutcome 5 - a useful summary of Catholic social teaching including information on rights and responsibilities, the preferential option for the poor, dignity, compassion, solidarity and so on.
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06 Apr 08
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Dignity of work and the rights of workers
Society must pursue economic justice and the economy must serve people, not the other way around. Employers must not "look upon their work people as their bondsmen, but... respect in every man his dignity as a person ennobled by Christian character."[22] Employers contribute to the common good through the services or products they provide and by creating jobs that uphold the dignity and rights of workers.
Workers have a right to work, to earn a living wage, and to form trade unions[23] to protect their interests. All workers have a right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, and to safe working conditions.[24] Workers also have responsibilities—to provide a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, to treat employers and co-workers with respect, and to carry out their work in ways that contribute to the common good. Workers must "fully and faithfully" perform the work they have agreed to do.
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Just as the unity of human society cannot be founded on an opposition of classes, so also the right ordering of economic life cannot be left to a free competition of forces. For from this source, as from a poisoned spring, have originated and spread all the errors of individualist economic teaching. Destroying through forgetfulness or ignorance the social and moral character of economic life, it held that economic life must be considered and treated as altogether free from and independent of public authority, because in the market, i.e., in the free struggle of competitors, it would have a principle of self direction which governs it much more perfectly than would the intervention of any created intellect. But free competition, while justified and certainly useful provided it is kept within certain limits, clearly cannot direct economic life...[34]
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