On labor…
In the status quo, we encountered different issues and concerns especially by the workers. When we confronted this issue in relation to work and labor, we may be dismayed. The myriad concerns about unemployment and underemployment are rampant. Before, nursing graduates are in high demand. However, because of many graduates every year, they end up as volunteer even the teachers and government contractual. They waited for long period of time for the items or job orders that promised them good compensations. Sales lady and contractual workers only had fewer benefits. When their contract ended, they treated somehow as mere objects to satisfy the needs of the establishment. Farmers and tenants treated unfairly. Even their children are forced to work just to sustain their daily needs. Here child labor appears.
On these concerns manifest dehumanizing. We say so, because they got involved in work just to satisfy their need of work, of being a worker but not in satisfying the needs of a person as a person. There is a human person fulfillment. As a person, it is not just only, physiological needs that need to provide and to satisfy but also some other aspect of human needs (relate it to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs).
In Filipino context, it gives emphasis on work and leisure. Moreover, work can be humanizing by giving reward and positive reinforcement, fulfilling the right needs, treating them fairly and giving them what is due to them according to the effort they exerted.