Recunoașterea valorii muncii la nivel european
Acknowledgement of the value of work at European level

Summary/Abstract: The economic crisis has re-focused the attention on the right to work, in the context of human rights issues. The fight against unemployment and the difficult access to the labour market are only a few elements directing the debate upon the conceptualized relationship between the right to work and freedom of work. Under the circumstances, the issue at stake is the relationship between freedom of work and the right to work. In our opinion, freedom of work is based on the right to work by virtue of which any person is entitled to access a job. This latter right is not an absolute one, but has to be exercised as provided under the law. At international level, the true regulation of the right to work is one of the main victories of the socialist movement: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At regional level, there are distinctive regulations for Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. At European level, it is deemed that the right to work is part of the European social law. This constitutive part of the European law is part of the international labour law, whose content is given by the regulations adopted by the Council of Europe and the European Union. The main document devoted to these issues is the European Social Charter, a normative act by the Council of Europe, elaborated in 1961 and revised in 1996. Consecration of the right to work under the Charter confers Europe certain precedence as regards the regulation at regional level of the right to work. As a matter of fact, it is the first European regulation that expressly institutes this right, having as source of inspiration various national or international regulations.

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