Theme: Legal Empowerment

Employment Rights Act, 2012

This Act makes provisions for the rights of employed persons in Barbados.

C 87, Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, 1948

This Convention is part of the ILO’s eight core Conventions. It provides workers and employers with the right to establish and join...

The Debate Over the Basis of Labour Law

Presentation from the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Government Resource: City of Vancouver (Canada) Guide to Street and Sidewalk Use for Business

City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, guide to laws governing various types of street vending, busking, and other forms of business...

Technical Note from 2013 Law Exposure Dialogue Programme

The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014

An Act to protect the rights of urban street vendors and to regulate street vending activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental...

Summary of Legal Framework on Domestic Work in Peru

Summary of materials related to the legal framework for domestic workers.Review of the main pieces of legislation related to this occupational...

Reglamento de la Ley No. 29429 que regula la actividad de los recicladores

Texto del reglamento de la Ley No. 29429 que regula la actividad de los recicladores. Vea también la Ley No. 29429.

Domestic Workers’ Laws and Legal Issues in India

Based on several factors common to domestic work, such as, the specificity of the employee-employer relationship and the workplace being...

TUC (Ghana)/WIEGO Informal Economy Legal Project Report from Campaign by Street Vendors & Domestic Workers Undertaken on 17 October 2014 in Accra

This report documents the results of a discussion to identify and address laws that impact t