Debate in Cuba on labor rights and social security
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Photo: PLHavana, March 20.- With the aim of defending a better right to work, the sessions of the XIII International Labor Lawyers' Meeting and the Trade Union Movement continue today.
About 500 delegates and guests from 14 countries meet at the event, which has as its central motto the role of labor law and social security in the new scenarios and in the protection of the fundamental rights of workers in the centenary year of the constitution of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
The justice of work in new scenarios, violence at work, threats to freedom of association, the working class and the trade union movement in the new times, among other issues, are part of the 70 papers in which delegates will exchange until Wednesday at the Convention Center of this capital.
The day before, during the opening ceremony in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana, the president of the Cuban society of Labor Law and Social Security, Guillermo Ferriol, highlighted the importance of the forum that on this occasion will allow to assess the importance, contributions and limitations of the ILO.
In the words of Ferriol, in a few countries of Ibero-America, the United States and Canada, new scenarios tinged with economic policies deny the protection of workers, limiting access to employment, social security, and making labor exclusion a constituted practice.
He also stressed that this international meeting serves not only to exchange experiences among professionals in the field, but also to promote the assessment of how to contribute from their actions to the fulfillment of the right to work and social security. (PL)
