lack of decent and secure jobs and insufficient social protection for workers. However, employment created in the informal sector is reported to be largely exploitative and insecure. The other ...

KATHMANDU, Sept 2: The government has begun incorporating workers in the informal sectors and those self-employed to the social security scheme since August 17. The Social Security Fund (SSF) had ...

Digital technology is pervasively transforming all work sectors including the informal sector and with COVID-19, we’re seeing an accelerated pace of the world go digital. COVID-19 Lockdown measures ...

Labour rights activists believe that the inclusion would usher a watershed moment in the country’s labour rights campaign as it would mark the first step towards ensuring labour rights of the ...

With the region facing significant socio-economic challenges, including looming layoffs in the titanium mining sector and a high poverty rate, the program aims to empower informal workers and artisans ...

While the informal sector is the ‘forgotten’ sector in many ways, it provides livelihoods, employment and income for about 2.5 million workers and business owners. One in every six South Africans who ...