Reduce unemployment Ensure meaningful employment for all

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Job scarcity is artificially created to maintain control over wages and labour. This policy ensures everyone who wants to work has access to socially useful employment.

Policy Objective 1 - Ensure meaningful employment for all

Job scarcity is artificially created to maintain control over wages and labour. This policy ensures everyone who wants to work has access to socially useful employment.

Work Policy Instruments 👇

Remember: Policy instruments are the means by which governments can achieve the degrowth goals/objectives we urgently need!

💡 Translation: There is plenty of work to be done—we just don’t prioritise it.

🏛 Publicly fund job guarantee programmes in essential sectors (care, education, climate adaptation).

🌍 Ensure jobs are meaningful and contribute to social and ecological well-being.

💰 Guarantee a living wage for all workers in job guarantee schemes.

Policy Objective 2 - Job sharing

💡 Translation: Spread work more fairly so everyone has access to employment.

⏳ Encourage shorter workweeks so jobs can be shared across more people.

🏛 Create legal frameworks and incentives for job-sharing arrangements.

💥 A just economy spreads work fairly instead of forcing some to overwork while others struggle to find employment.