“No one should feel excluded from work. Do not miss your commitment to promote women’s work, favor the access of young people to employmentwith decent contracts and not starvation, to guarantee rest times and spaces for families,” he requested.
He added: “Please. Reject all forms of exploitation!”
The Argentine pontiff was especially insistent on the need to guarantee decent jobs to people so as not to incur in what he considers a form of “more or less exploitation”: precarious or poorly paid contracts.
“Social inequalities, forms of slavery and exploitation, family poverty due to lack of work or poorly paid work are realities that must be heard in our ecclesiastical environments. They are more or less forms of exploitation: let’s call things by their name,” he warned.
Thus, Francisco pointed out that it is important that workers unite in “parishes, associations, groups and movements” so that their problems “are taken seriously”.
“The work goes through a phase of transformation that must be accompanied,” he pointed out before indicating that “Nobody should feel like a slave to their own work.”
Finally, the Pope has asked the Christian Workers Movement, a voluntary foundation established in 1970, toand “sow hope” since “the pandemic and the war have made the social climate darker and more pessimistic.”
“I call you to be sowers of hope, beginning with yourselves, with your associative fabric: that your doors are open; that young people feel not only guests, but protagonists, with their ability to imagine a different society”.
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