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A historic instrument on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work was adopted at the International Labour Conference (ILC) in 2019. WIEGO's delegation included informal worker representatives, who advocated for the convention to include all workers, especially the world's poor and...
This 2018 study by HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) found that despite playing critical roles in the large cardamom and allo value chains, women home-based workers in Nepal are invisible and disadvantaged. “In the large cardamom value chain, the work put in by the women, in the farming and processing...
In order to understand the main occupational health challenges and hazards home-based workers face in Ahmedabad, India, a survey was undertaken with a total of 200 women workers, split across four groups: kite makers, incense rollers, bidi makers and garment workers.
Nazma is home-based worker who has often found herself at the mercy of the sub-contractors who employ her. But now she has joined forces with other women home-based workers to challenge the status quo.
Carr Centre Discussion Paper Abstract: Following the Rana Plaza factory fires four years ago, the labour rights violations in global supply chains, and indeed the governance of global supply chains, has become a pressing global issue. This paper evaluates key existing global and national supply...
The addition of a new category “dependent contractor” in the status in employment classification of labour statistics should lead to better data and thus better national policies to benefit homeworkers: that is, sub-contracted home-based workers who are neither fully independent self-employed nor...
L’ajout d’une nouvelle catégorie « non-salarié dépendant » dans la Classification internationale des statuts d’emploi (CISE-18), en termes de statistiques du travail, devrait conduire à de meilleures données et donc à de meilleures politiques nationales en faveur des travailleurs à domicile, c’est-à...
La inclusión de la nueva categoría “contratista dependiente” en la clasificación de la situación en la ocupación dentro de las estadísticas del trabajo debería aportar mejores datos, y por ende conducir a mejores políticas nacionales que beneficien a las personas trabajadoras a domicilio...
Living Wage: Regulatory Pathways to Living Wages for Precarious and Informal Workers in Global Supply Chains proposes strategies to improve and enforce minimum wages for workers that suffer the consequences of the constant pressure from powerful actors to cut production cost. At the heart of the...
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Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.