Declaración del centenario sobre el futuro del trabajo

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The paper is a commentary on the ILO Centenary Declaration For the Future of Work, which the ILO has adopted in June 2019, and which has great symbolic value. The most novel aspect of the instrument is the requirement to develop a human-centred approach to the future of work, which places workers’ rights at the core of economic, commercial, social and environmental policies. Although the approach serves both to guide the future activities of the ILO, and to appeal to the action of the Member States, it seems as if the burden of responsibility falls, above all, on the Member States. Is it a historical Declaration, living up to the expectations it had raised? As with the 1998 and 2008 Declarations, the Centenary Declaration will give rise to a controversy. While some will be pleased with the new institutionalized approach, others will see it as a lost occasion, and will regret its non-binding nature, the lack of precision of its forecasts, and that it does not include some of the proposals of the report of the World Commission on the Future of Work, nor of the text of the Declaration that was submitted for consideration and discussion by the International Labour Conference.