Rights of workers and various employment issues
Pope John Paul II spends a lot of time discussing the rights of workers and various
employment issues. He shares insightful points about the rights of workers from
employment issues, wages, agricultural work, emigrant workers to the disabled worker.
For this discussion post, I want you to discuss which worker’s right from section 18-23
(p. 40-53) impacted you and why. You only have to choose one worker's right that he
discussed; but you must use the text to provide support of your discussion post.
Reading: Part III & IV On Human Work (p.23-52)
Link to the book:
http://www.catholic-pages.com/documents/laborem_ex…
Than, I need 5-8 sentences response to this post:
The worker's right that impacted me most was about the disabled worker. According to
the text, "The disabled person is one of us and participates fully in the same humanity
that we possess. It would be radically unworthy of man, and a denial of our common
humanity, to admit to the life of the community, and thus admit to work, only those who
are fully functional. To do so would be to practice a serious form of discrimination, that
of the strong and healthy against the weak and sick" (Pope John Paul II, 47). This
specific section of the text really hit me because it's so true. We were all created in the
likeness of God, we are all created in His image, and to treat someone less than that is
simply not okay. Who are we to treat someone inferiorly? What puts us in the position
and makes us feel we can treat someone poorly based off of something they cannot
control? People who are disabled do not choose to be. My boyfriend's brother is an
epileptic and had a hard time finding employment before finding a job, when he is just
as qualified as a non-disabled person.
Man should be able to feel dignified in his work, because man works for himself. Certain
groups of people should never be discriminated because everyone is called to work. It is
a vocation of everyone to work, and if we take that right away from the disabled, they
are not able to fulfill that vocation to God. We are no one to judge, only God.
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