Employees and employers need each other. Both work towards their holiness or sanctification. The right to work is related to the right to a salary. Jesus said that “the labourer deserves to be paid” (Lk 10:7). Connected to this is the right to keep your pay and use it as you deem proper. That is the basis for the right to private property.
Profit should never be the unique aim of an enterprise. Moving work to ‘cheap countries’ may seem interesting from the point of view of profit. It may even give some people over there a decent local salary. However, at the same time, working opportunities are lost in your home country. A proper discernment is needed. The same is true for giving men and women equal opportunities. They are absolutely equal in value and have different qualities to offer. Also the Church has not always sufficiently valued the contribution of women, who were greatly esteemed by Jesus.
