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While Article 15 of the Constitution provides that no person shall be forced to perform forced or compulsory labour, we have also seen an erosion of this provision by successive policymakers. correct Regarding labor: The same Constitution of the Republic of Suriname also explicitly guarantees the right to work.
Article 24 states that the State has the duty to create conditions that ensure the maximum possible satisfaction of basic needs such as work, nutrition, health care, education, energy, clothing and communication.
Article 25 confirms in great detail that work is the most important means of human development and an important source of prosperity.
Article 26 emphasizes that everyone has the right to work according to his or her abilities. Finally, Article 28 deals with fair remuneration for work performed, again expressing the right of all residents of Suriname to work as a means of self-development.
But how can you develop yourself if you have to stay home every time because another group of our brothers must be honored? We now have a national day of rest in honor of almost all population groups. This means: everyone is obliged not to work! But at the same time, there are still many stomachs to fill, people’s problems remain and need to be solved at the root. There is no day of rest for hunger and trouble!
If we look at life from the point of view of companies on the territory of Suriname, we can also point out some shortcomings.
Although Article 5 of our Constitution stipulates that economic and social development is an economic system in which state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, state-owned enterprises and individuals operate jointly, simultaneously and equally, we also see obvious unfairness. There is even serious discrimination in this regard. As they say, designated state-owned enterprises that (must) provide basic daily services and products to the people operate 24/7. Therefore, if you work in Staatsolie or EBS, you can continue to develop yourself, you will never have to go hungry, and there may even be professional service providers who can help solve your small problems. If you have food to eat and other facilities are arranged for you, your life may not have any big problems.
How different it is for small and large workers who do not work in such state-owned enterprises. They earn daily, weekly or monthly wages only for the days they work (that is, the days the government allows them to work). Usually, no wages are paid for mandatory rest days.
Regarding Suriname’s (poor) entrepreneurs: Policymakers apparently don’t want to read Article 5 of the Constitution: “It is the duty of the State to promote and safeguard, as far as possible, all commercial production.”
The new policy “insight” to abolish legal provisions in the field of import tariffs at one stroke is actually beyond the scope of this article. But for working people, the consequences are easy to guess.
Multiple days off indicate a (sustainable) policy that does not give any chance to the “luxury” of self-development. You want to eat and feed your children? Then go to work on a day when none of our ancestors entered the country. Or a day when not a single group of our beautiful population was respected. We now give a day off to everyone who enters, and a day off to everyone who practices religion. Let the people of the greenest country in the world and its almost inexhaustible mineral resources perish by inaction!
But can one respect a population group only by punishing the entire population to go home? Not through equal opportunities for all, not through sustainable incentives for the disadvantaged? No, and the reason is also clear: how to win votes in every election? By maintaining underdevelopment and thus dependence on packages and offers. This is achieved by not allowing anyone to become strong enough to live independently, overcome problems on their own and build a strong foundation for their future!
Meanwhile, the (usually already) unemployed, poorly educated, unmotivated, and hungry are also using the mandatory day off to commit robbery, murder, burglary, theft, vandalism, rape, etc. There may be one upside to mandatory days off: white collar criminals, corrupt elements, and their accomplices have to wait a full day to further enrich themselves at the expense of working people.
Luckily we don’t have Queen’s or King’s Day here yet! But you can still add it to all the madness…
Shanti Gopal Rai
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