SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG8 advances “Supported, comprehensive and practical financial development, full and beneficial business and respectable work for all”. It reaffirms the commonly strong connection among monetary and social arrangements, full business and fair work. Among others, comprehensive and manageable financial development, innovation, and auxiliary change are basic and must be guided by a general vital heading.  

The financial management is more urgent than any other time, considering the phenomenal effects of new innovation bunches on all SDG territories and especially on the fate of work and worldwide development. Significant levels of disparities proceed as significant obstructions to SDG8 advancement. Accomplishing a significant number of the different SDGs relies upon progress under the SDG8 targets. Preparing the approach needs, instruments, associations and assets that SDG8-related intercessions can bring is in this way pivotal for finishing all types of destitution and diminishing imbalances, while guaranteeing that nobody is deserted.  

Moreover, progress towards SDG8 alone “Amounts to nothing”, in the event that it permits natural debasement and social prohibition. There is not a viable alternative for profitability development or compromise, increased efficiency development is required for work creation.  

Ensuring rights and occupations must come along with work absence strategies. In numerous nations, an industry-drove monetary change actually holds the best potential for expansive based enhancements in labor efficiency and, resulting, respectable positions and moderate items. At the point when outlined inside steady enactment and supplemented by focused public arrangements, it can address the goal of financial development, asset de-coupling and comprehensiveness. Shutting work profitability holes over the public economy and along these lines dodging sectioned work markets is most likely still a solitary somewhat tended to challenge in most of low-salary nations.  

It warrants nearer collaboration between creating accomplices and among non-industrial nations to disperse great practice and encourage expansive based profitability upgrades across nations. Miniature, little and medium ventures (MSMEs) are critical for meeting SDG8 and different SDGs.  

They are regularly the principle salary hotspot for the most unfortunate populace fragments, particularly in country territories, and will in general utilize a bigger portion of the labor forces in weak areas. Be that as it may, MSMEs keep on confronting difficulties, including restricted admittance to fund and absence of limit and information, especially with respect to business improvement, promoting and key administration aptitudes, and, particularly in non-industrial nations, additionally feeble political, institutional and administrative systems.  

Additional demanding and enveloping approach measures are expected to address worldwide and public imbalances in asset preparation, innovative ability, market power and political impact brought about by hyper-globalization that have created exclusionary results and will propagate them if no activity is taken. Increased and expansive man-made brainpower (AI) organization will require quickening the advancement being made on the specialized difficulties, also ensuring that all potential clients approach AI and can profit by it. Measures that might be required remembering further venture for AI research, growing accessible informational collections, particularly where their utilization would drive more extensive advantages for society, and empowering more noteworthy AI education among business pioneers and strategy producers.  

A beginning stage for tending to the expected problematic effects of computerization will be to guarantee hearty monetary and profitability development, which is an essential for work development and expanding thriving. Governments will likewise need to encourage business dynamism, since enterprise and new business development won’t just lift profitability, yet additionally drive work creation. Artificial intelligence won’t satisfy its guarantee if people in general lose trust in it because of security infringement, inclination, or vindictive use, or if a significant part of the world comes to reprimand it for worsening imbalance.  

Full and profitable business and nice work are feasible if the correct speculations are made, as the ongoing report of the Global Commission for the Future of Work has accentuated (ILO 2019). To convey these ventures, a lot of facilitated strategies and foundations dependent on a solid regularizing system are needed, alongside solid components to operationalize, arrange and administer these approaches. Besides, our view of what a working life is necessities to move. The natural three phase life (training, work, retirement) is gone or blurring. The new model incorporates ordinary times of preparing, care obligations, vocation breaks, part-and all day work. It is basic that training, work and social assurance frameworks both reflect and backing these new real factors.  

 In any case, the world can shape this groundbreaking change – we are not weak. The ILO report and the UN’s 2030 Agenda set out measures that would build laborers’ privileges and forestall prohibitions yet additionally conceive a progression of interests in material and non-material foundation that will help establish the most ideal climate for organizations to flourish and for individuals to advance toward more pleasant working and day to day environments.  

An abundance of information, including from the World Bank and the OECD, shows that not all around directed excessively inflexible work markets, high non-wage work costs, and exorbitant regulatory weights thwart organizations’ capacity to develop and to utilize individuals. What we need are open, dynamic and comprehensive work advertises that regard Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, with straightforward, straightforward, adaptable and unsurprising legitimate business structures. We additionally need proficient, rapid and debasement free cycles to enroll business and motivators to urge business visionaries to work in the conventional area are vital to urging organizations to recruit, to elevating formalization and to making chances for underrepresented bunches at the work market.

Business structure and job design

The need to broaden the Lebanese economy and make all the higher worth positions is unquestionable, the University assumes a significant part in business arrangement and employment creation in Lebanon and region. And away from on commercializing the examination discoveries of our instructors directly affects business arrangement and occupation creation in Lebanon. Ongoing examination has affirmed a high pace of business arrangement among our alumni and their organizations appreciate high paces of development and endurance rates over the public normal.

Specialist exploitation:

Most nations have strategies to encourage sheltered and methodical movement, however more work stays to be done to secure travelers’ privileges and financial prosperity.  

The Islamic University of Lebanon puts stock in the natural nobility, all things considered. All who can possibly prevail at our University ought to approach it. We regard our disparities, commend our shared traits, and are joined in our common spotlight on scholarly accomplishment. We advance work environment variety in admittance to our projects and business and in the lead of the University’s undertakings. Here are models how the University is advancing comprehensive, practical monetary development and work for all:  

Variety and Diversity cultivates a culture of incorporation at the University where all individuals feel esteemed, regarded, and included over all distinctions including being where skilled individuals decide to work.  

The mission of Diversity is originated from our mission, University for the whole nation, is to help with making the activities that help the objectives of the President’s Advisory Committee on Respect and three of the five institutional needs, Creating Pathways to Indigenous Achievement, Building Community that establishes an exceptional learning and workplace and Forging Connections to encourage high effect network commitment in the Strategic Plan. The objective of Diversity is to guarantee that all occupation candidates, personnel and staff have reasonable and impartial admittance to work openings in employing, preparing and headway. 

No individual ought to be denied business open doors for reasons inconsequential to capacity and work choices at the University depend on work execution, aptitudes, and information and capacities pertinent to explicit positions.  

Fair Policy: The Islamic University of Lebanon follows a “Fair Policy”, which stick to the Fair Labor Conduct. 

Organizations are motors for work creation, financial development and encourage monetary action through their worth chain. Fair work open doors are useful for business and society. Organizations that maintain work principles over their own tasks and worth chains face lower danger of notoriety harm and lawful obligation. Initiating non-prejudicial practices and grasping variety and incorporation will likewise prompt more noteworthy admittance to gifted, profitable ability.

IUL and decent work and sustainable economic growth:

The Islamic University of Lebanon puts stock in the natural nobility, all things considered. All who can possibly prevail at our University ought to approach it. We regard our disparities, commend our shared traits, and are joined in our common spotlight on scholarly accomplishment. We advance work environment variety in admittance to our projects and business and in the lead of the University’s undertakings. Here are models how the University is advancing comprehensive, practical monetary development and work for all:  

Variety and Diversity cultivates a culture of incorporation at the University where all individuals feel esteemed, regarded, and included over all distinctions including being where skilled individuals decide to work.  

The mission of Diversity is originated from our mission, University for the whole nation, is to help with making the activities that help the objectives of the President’s Advisory Committee on Respect and three of the five institutional needs, Creating Pathways to Indigenous Achievement, Building Community that establishes an exceptional learning and workplace and Forging Connections to encourage high effect network commitment in the Strategic Plan. The objective of Diversity is to guarantee that all occupation candidates, personnel and staff have reasonable and impartial admittance to work openings in employing, preparing and headway. 

No individual ought to be denied business open doors for reasons inconsequential to capacity and work choices at the University depend on work execution, aptitudes, and information and capacities pertinent to explicit positions.  

Fair Policy: The Islamic University of Lebanon follows a “Fair Policy”, which stick to the Fair Labor Conduct. 

Organizations are motors for work creation, financial development and encourage monetary action through their worth chain. Fair work open doors are useful for business and society. Organizations that maintain work principles over their own tasks and worth chains face lower danger of notoriety harm and lawful obligation. Initiating non-prejudicial practices and grasping variety and incorporation will likewise prompt more noteworthy admittance to gifted, profitable ability. 

Sustainable economic growth

The official wording is: “Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labor-intensive sectors. Furthermore, according to Lebanese labor law, Decree No. 500 of 14 October 2008, minimum wage amended by degree number 7426 on 25/1/2012 which raised the minimum wage to 675000m which our university abides by this law. In addition to that, most of university employees’ salaries are above this level and it rises according to seniority and experience.  

Taking into consideration the Low development in Lebanon in the course of recent years is clarified by the misfortune in certainty that followed the beginning of the Syrian emergency, combined with the strained world of politics which deadened political dynamic during that period and assumed a significant function in the drop of development rates. The travel industry, trades, land, and private speculations were completely influenced. Even after another president was chosen, another administration was quickly shaped in December 2016, and political and financial movement continued, development has still not got. Which lead to the disturbing level of poverty in Lebanon especially after recent pandemic of COVID19 which is 55% estimated headcount till may 2020. Using capacity building in our university, we can help both our workforce and students to overcome such challenge. 

The Lebanese Labour Law protects employees from gender-based discrimination relating to the nature of the job, wages, recruitment, promotions, pay rises, professional training and attire. 

The Law is also protective of foreign employees’ rights and grants foreign employees the same rights as Lebanese employees at the termination of their employment, subject to reciprocity in the employee’s country of origin and the employee having obtained a work permit from the Ministry of Labour based on that, our university as a body have a policy on no discrimination in the workplace which is enlisted in its Staff law.

Taking immediate and effective measures to eliminate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment in all its forms, abiding by the law, our university teaches, Human Rights Course, for all our students, which will help in rising awareness of such dangerous act within the organization and outside it.

Conclusion and future perspectives:

In conclusion, we can say that our university is committed to no forced labour, no modern slavery, and it grants equal rights of its workforce, moreover, it depends of a pay scale in evaluating its employees by performing job appraisals on regular basis. This evaluation will help eliminating pay gaps and will impose equality between university members.  

Finally, Organizations are engines for work creation and financial development as well as encouraging monetary actions through their worth chain. That is the mission of Islamic University of Lebanon, caring for and disseminating heritage, and contributing to preserving the values of truth and goodness in human civilization by our three pillars the power of knowledge, solidarity and strength. 

After we have discussed what is SDG8 and how does it relates to the development of the society, we recommend to design and implement policies: 

  • Related to job discrimination within the university.  
  • Related to job appraisal that will help in motivating employees within the university in achieving the overall objective of the organization.  
  • That help in developing the workforce in the university in which it will aid the organization to elevate its potentials to contribute to the sustainability of the Lebanese economy.