BM’ye göre, yaklaşık 2,2 milyar insan yoksulluk sınırının altında yaşamakta ve insana yakışır iş bulmak her zaman daha da zorlaşmaktadır. Küresel olarak 200 milyon insan işsizdir ve 783 milyonu yoksul olmak üzere 1,4 milyar kişi güvencesiz işlerde çalışmaktadır. Cinsiyetler arası küresel ücret farkı %23’te ve öngörülere göre önemli bir çaba harcamadan eşit ücrete ulaşmak 68 yıl daha alacaktır. Ayrıca, üye ülkelerdeki istihdam söz konusu olduğunda, kötü istihdam koşullarıyla ilişkili kayıt dışı çalışma genellikle bir normdur ve ele alınması gereken önemli bir zorluk olmaya devam etmektedir.

Economic growth should be a positive force for the whole world. It is therefore important to ensure that financial progress creates decent, satisfying jobs without harming the environment. Entrepreneurship and innovation will benefit everyone when employee rights are respected and greater access to banking and financial services is encouraged and new jobs are created.

The 8th of the Global Development Goals (SDG 8) aims to achieve decent work and sustainable economic growth worldwide, in particular by:

• Full employment by 2030, decent, productive work for all and equal pay for equal work.
• Investing to end forced and child labor and increase job creation by 2025
• Addressing informal work, to which women and children are most exposed, by promoting entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Supporting investment, entrepreneurship and innovation to increase employment opportunities

Decent Work and Psychological Health

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), psychological health is defined as “a state of well-being in which each individual realizes his/her own potential, copes with the normal stresses of life, works productively and efficiently, and contributes to his/her community”.

Having a job is not good for health if that job is insecure. The rise of non-standard forms of employment that do not provide workers with the same protections as standard employment has a detrimental effect on the physical and mental health of workers and their families. The harmful health consequences of non-standard forms of employment are felt by changes across the socioeconomic spectrum. In addition, physical, ergonomic, psychosocial and chemical hazards in the workplace can adversely affect the health of employees; physically demanding or dangerous work; long or irregular working hours, including shift work and overtime, prolonged sedentary work; cause serious health hazards to workers.

The most basic working conditions are: (1) adequate living wages, (2) limits of working hours, and (3) safe and healthy are workplaces.

Decent work, "work" subjective about the meaning and what constitutes good working conditions. objective exists in the relationship between a definition. Therefore, determining the psychosocial dimensions of the job along with the working conditions is essential for a comprehensive business system analysis. The systematic monitoring, surveillance and psychosocial risk management of occupational diseases facilitates the development of innovative measures most appropriate for each workplace.

Psychosocial Risk Management for Decent Work and Economic Growth

Target 8.8 includes protecting employee rights and promoting safe working environments.

Extending health and safety legislation and the provision of basic occupational health services to all workers, including those in the informal employment, reduces work-related illness and injury. Efforts to increase employees' awareness of necessary health and safety information, and to increase their compliance and participation in the process also help reduce occupational health hazards.

Addressing psychosocial risks in the workplace, implementing risk assessment and risk management systems against workplace stress, adopting organizational and individual preventive control measures, increasing the coping skills of employees, improving organizational communication, increasing employee participation in decision-making processes, social support systems in the workplace and strengthening health and safety; It reduces stress-related physical and mental illnesses such as heart disease, anxiety, depression and musculoskeletal disorders and contributes to the development of sustainable and productive businesses.

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Decent work and economic growth. International Partnerships – European Commission. (2021, August 4). Retrieved June 21, 2022, from https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/sdg/decent-work-and-economic-growth_en#:~:text=The%208th%20Sustainable%20Development%20Goal,for%20equal%20work%20by%202030

Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth. The Global Goals. (2022, March 15). Retrieved June 21, 2022, from https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/8-decent-work-and-economic-growth/

Health, Decent Work Policy brief and the economy – euro.who.int. (n.d.). Retrieved June 21, 2022, from https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/397793/SDG-8-policy-brief_4.pdf

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