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Rights of Truth fundamental rights of all workers and aim to improve their conditions.
What are the Rights of Truth in this campaign?
Rights of Truth, mentioned by this public information campaign:
- are fundamental rights, essential to all workers, including those who use digital platforms.
- have been achieved throughout history, seeking to ensure decent working conditions and prevent exploitation without limits.
- must be protected in order to guarantee quality of life for workers, good working conditions, sustainable economic development and environmental protection for current and future generations.
Where Are the Rights of Truth to in This Campaign Expected to Be Applied?
The main Rights of Truth of workers, referred to in this public information campaign, are provided for in Article 7 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution.
There are other Rights of Truth that are also important and are established in national and international laws, in the Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Organization, and in International Human Rights Treaties.
What Rights Can Be Cited as Examples of Rights of Truth?
They can be cited as Rights of Truth:
- adequate remuneration for the time worked and for being at the contractor's disposal;
- non-exhaustive working hourswith paid breaks and vacations;
- health and safety protection at work;
- The right to a balanced environment, including the working environment;
- the right to information about aspects of work, such as forms of work organization and management, capturing workers' data and using it;
- protecting workers against unilateral decisions and punishments;
- workers' right to participate, organize collectively and demand better working conditions and pay;
- the right to social benefits (Social Security), such as: accident benefit, sickness benefit, maternity and paternity leave, retirement, among others;
- protection against any kind of discrimination at work (racial, religious, gender, sexual or political orientation, etc.).
Why Rights of Truth Fundamental in Digital Platform Work?
The Rights of Truthmentioned by the campaign are also fundamental in work on digital platforms, as they provide access to other rights that are equally important to people's lives, and this is no different when working on digital platforms.
Having the right to adequate and predictable pay, to paid rest, to working conditions that protect life and health, with guaranteed protection against illness and accidents, to information on aspects of how work is carried out, for example, is part of building a society of solidarity and fairness, for present and future generations.
The protection of fundamental labor rights must go hand in hand with economic growth and the use of new technologies.
The use of new technologies in the world of work and production must integrate the guarantee and protection of labor rights, contributing to ecologically sustainable and balanced economic growth.
For these reasons, the protection of labor rights and the guarantee of decent jobs are pillars of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.