Many ministers announced, Tuesday, November 9, the launch of a “national acceleration strategy” to eliminate child labor and forced labor, in order to track the objectives posed by the International Labor Organization.
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“These forms of work deny the freedom of any individual, they do work an alienation, weaken the very notion of equality,” solemnly declared Tuesday, November 9, the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne: in the face of persistence and even to increase the work of children in the world – in 2020, it concerns 160 million children under 15, 8.4 million more than four years ago, according to UNICEF -, Government wishes to accelerate its action, in consultation with companies and the social partners.
Elisabeth Borne, Franck Riester, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, and Adrien Tag, Secretary of State for Childhood and Families, gathered at the Ministry of Labor, presented their “national acceleration strategy to eliminate the child labor, forced labor, trafficking in human beings and contemporary slavery by 2030 “, and signed a letter to Guy Ryder, Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
At its scale, France wants to involve the multinationals based on its soil, inviting them to monitor the modes of work of their subcontractors at all levels of their value chain. This policy is an extension of the law establishing a duty of vigilance, which has been in force since 2017, which obliges large companies to prevent serious abuses towards fundamental freedoms.
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If the commitment is mainly turned to less advanced countries, the ministers also indicated the remaining work on the national territory. “It can surprise that France is committed to such an approach, because we might think that it does not concern us, said Adrien Taquet. Unfortunately, it is not, there are more than a thousand interventions of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of the inspection of Work for minor work In the last two years. “The Minister of Commerce Franck Riester believes that” school closures related to the CVVID crisis has aggravated these phenomena. There have been loss of employment and income in families. “
The Government Delegate at the ILO Anousheh Karvar, who coordinated this national strategy, points out the explosion of sublease by young people under 18 years of account on delivery platforms Like Uber Eats or Deliveroo, seasonal work forced by young migrants in the agricultural sector, or the sexual exploitation of “more and more young girls of French nationality, particularly in the cities”. “These phenomena exist, we can not give lesson to the pioneering countries if we are not at zero,” says the government delegate at the ILO.
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