ILO Resource Package on “Extending Social Security to Workers in the Informal Economy”
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
The ILO policy resource package “Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience” serves as a reference for policy makers, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other stakeholders engaged in the development of social protection strategies, or the planning, design, implementation and monitoring of systems and...
Read MoreUniversal social protection for human dignity, social justice and sustainable development: General Survey concerning the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202)
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
The ILO’s General Survey 2019 , compiled by the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR). The Survey (published under the title Universal social protection for human dignity, social justice and sustainable development) focuses on the ILO’s Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), which calls for...
Read MoreInformal is the New Normal: Improving the lives of workers at risk of being left behind
Resources - Author: Abigail Hunt, Elizabeth Stuart, Emma Samman / Year: 2018
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has given a new urgency to efforts to confront deficits in employment. We take up the call to improve the working conditions of informal workers who face being left behind given that processes of formalisation are unlikely to incorporate them in...
Read MoreActive Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from a meta analysis
Resources - Year: 2017
We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to compile a novel meta database and provides a narrative review of 51 studies. Based on these studies, the quantitative analysis...
Read MoreTransition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204)
Legal depository - Year: 2015
This Recommendation recognizes the lack of protection of workers in the informal economy, and provides guidance for improving their protection and facilitating transitions to the formal economy. It also recognizes that decent work deficits – the denial of rights at work, the absence of sufficient opportunities for quality employment,...
Read MoreWork-related social protection for informal workers
Resources - Author: Frances Lund / Year: 2012
The informal workforce is growing worldwide, and changes in the global structure of employment and in places of employment mean that work is a source of hazard and ill-health for many poorer workers. Yet informal workers do not have access to work-related social security. They face high work-related risks,...
Read MoreThe informal economy and decent work: supporting transitions to formality: a resource guide
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2013
This practical Policy Resource Guide is the first initiative to bring together a synthesis of knowledge, policy innovations and good practices facilitating transition to formality. Chapter 8.1 deals specifically with the extension of social security to persons in the informal economy. Link to the resource guide Link to chapter...
Read MoreAccess to courts and the right to work for informal traders in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Constitutional Court of South Africa / Year: 2013
Upon an urgent request, the Constitutional Court of South Africa intervened in a lower court affair to prevent the municipal government and Metropolitan Police Force from hindering what was asserted to be lawful activity by informal traders under the auspices of “Operation Clean Sweep”. Until the legality of the...
Read MoreThe transition from the informal to the formal economy, 103rd and 104th Session of the International Labour Conference
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2015
The informal economy is significantly impacting the world of work, with as much as 40–80 per cent of the labour force in developing countries working within it. Increasingly, transition to formality has emerged as a priority policy agenda in developed and developing countries, and new policy initiatives and approaches...
Read MoreSocial Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202)
Legal depository - Year: 2012
Recommendation No. 202 is the first international instrument to offer guidance to countries to close social security gaps and progressively achieve universal protection through the establishment and maintenance of comprehensive social security systems. To this aim, the Recommendation calls for (1) the implementation, as a priority, of social protection...
Read MoreInformality and transitions to formality
The number of workers engaged in informal employment has increased in many parts of the world. In many developing countries, workers in the informal economy represent the majority of the labour force. Workers in the informal economy are not covered by labour regulations and lack of access to social...
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