Decent Employment and Poverty Alleviation for Socio-Economic Development and Its Implications for the Well-Being of the Citizenry in South Africa

Olaniyi J. Olabiyi
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The need for governments and private employers to adequately provide decent work within the economy for all its inhabitants cannot be over-emphasized. This imperative is even more important since most obtainable work have been characterized by many detrimental dimensions which can be considered as constituting ‘indecent employment’. From the viewpoint of human development, the paper examines how ‘decent employment’ can serve as an antidote to poverty. Thus, decent employment can positively affect both material and non-material social development which include health, education, social security, food security and overall well-being.. The present paper is borne out of the desire to empower the average South African citizen in specifically attaining an improved socio-economic living standard.  This paper employs a qualitative, thematic analysis of selected reported cases of perceived ‘indecent’ or non-meaningful employment from both informal and formal sectors’ Additionally, this paper highlights instances in which employees  have experienced  challenges in getting ‘dignified’ or decent employments as a result of  casualization, outsourcing, short-term contracts, and temporary employments. This interpretive, qualitative approach was adopted to put forward a somewhat empirical evidence of the potential beneficial effect of decent employment on human and socio-economic development. The main contribution of this paper is that it foregrounds the need for decent employment of the workforce in addressing the three-pronged societal challenges of unemployment, inequality and poverty. The paper posits that decent employment significantly contributes to national socio-economic development and poverty alleviation or eradication.
体面就业和减轻贫困促进社会经济发展及其对南非公民福祉的影响
政府和私人雇主必须在经济中为所有居民充分提供体面的工作,这一点怎么强调都不为过。由于大多数可获得的工作都具有许多可被视为“不雅就业”的有害方面,因此这一必要性更为重要。从人类发展的角度出发,本文探讨了“体面就业”如何成为消除贫困的一剂良药。因此,体面就业可以对物质和非物质社会发展产生积极影响,包括保健、教育、社会保障、粮食安全和整体福祉。本文件的目的是希望赋予普通南非公民权力,具体地实现改善的社会经济生活水平。本文采用了定性的专题分析,选择了报告的“不体面的”或无意义的就业案例,这些案例来自非正式和正式部门。此外,本文还强调了员工在获得“有尊严的”或体面的就业方面遇到挑战的例子,这些挑战来自临时工、外包、短期合同和临时就业。采用这种解释性质的方法是为了提出一些经验证据,证明体面就业对人力和社会经济发展的潜在有利影响。本文的主要贡献在于,它强调了在解决失业、不平等和贫困这三管齐下的社会挑战时,劳动力体面就业的必要性。该文件认为,体面就业对国家社会经济发展和减轻或消除贫困作出了重大贡献。
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