Recommendation 202, Social Protection Floors,2012

This Convention recognises that the transition to formal employment and the establishment of sustainable social protection systems are mutually supportive. It provides guidance to member states to establish and maintain social protection floors. It provides key principles to be taken into account in setting up social protection floors, these include; universality of social protection, non-discrimination and gender equality, respect for rights and dignity of people amongst others. The Convention further provides that states should put in place a number of measures to ensure the protection of workers in non-standard work. It further provides that member states should take special account in national policy to address the gender dimension in that women workers predominate in certain occupations and sectors where there is a high proportion of disguised employment relationships, or where there is a lack of clarity of an employment relationship.