CSDC 288

Work is a good belonging to all people and must be made available to all who are capable of engaging in it. “Full employment” therefore remains a mandatory objective for every economic system oriented towards justice and the common good. A society in which the right to work is thwarted or systematically denied, and in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, “cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace”.⁶²⁵ John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 43: AAS 83AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 83 (1991) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1991), 848; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2433. An important role and, consequently, a particular and grave responsibility in this area falls to “indirect employers”,⁶²⁶ Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens, 17: AAS 73AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 73 (1981) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1981), 620-622. that is, those subjects — persons or institutions of various types — in a position to direct, at the national or international level, policies concerning labour and the economy.