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This Recommendation provides a definition of home work. It encourages member states to formulate policy and laws to regulate home work. The Convention also provides fundamental rights to collective bargain and freedom of association to home workers.
This United Nations Convention incorporates the principle of equality of men and women. It establishes that all member states must abolish all discriminatory laws and adopt appropriate ones prohibiting discrimination against women.
This labour agreement between India and Saudi Arabia, seeks to enhance cooperation on the recruitment of Domestic Service Workers, to promote mutual benefits and to secure the rights of both the workers and their employers in relation to the prevailing laws and regulations of both nations.
The Business amendment act seeks to make further provisions regarding the grounds on which aplications for certain licenses may be refused, to empower a local authority to make by-laws regarding the carrying on of the business of street vendors, pedlars or hawkers to mention a few.
This Convention applies to all employed women, including those in atypical forms of dependent work and seeks to adopt certain proposals that promote equality of all women in the workforce and the health and safety of the mother and child, by advocating for the development of the protection of...
This Convention provides a number of measures that member states should take in order to safeguard the rights of migrant workers. It includes adequate provision of medical services. It further provides that migrant workers should not be treated less favourable than nationals at law and specifically...
"This is a law document. This law establishes the Brazilian National Policy on Solid Waste; it amends the Law no. 9,605, February 12, 1998; and gives other matters. "The millions of people worldwide who make a living collecting, sorting, recycling, and selling materials that someone else has thrown...
This policy serves to enforce a by-law relating to the supervision and control of the carrying on of the business of street vendors, peddlers or hawkers within the Maluti-a-phofung municipality by authorizing officials to remove or impound any property which he/she reasonably suspects is being used...
This paper looks into existing and available literature and information on the extent and nature of legal exclusion of informal businesses in the Philippines by looking at the existing legal mechanisms as provided for by Philippine laws that affect or impact on informal businesses; the inadequacies...
The General Comments do not have the same authoritative force of international law as treaties or other international legal instruments, but these commentaries on the rights enumerated in the ICESCR are considered signify- cant persuasive authority when deciding how to interpret and implement those...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
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.