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Legal Instruments
Recommendation 198, Employment Relationship
This Convention provides for the regulation of employment relationships. It provides that national policies should be put in place to establish...
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Legal Instruments
Law: Ordenanza Municipal para el Comercio Estacionado y Ambulante
Ordinance governing street vending in Santiago, Chile
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Legal Instruments
Report from 2011 Consultation with Domestic Workers in Ghana
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Research Reports
Bibliography on Law and Informality
Bibliography (with links) to articles, books, and other academic resources on law and the informal economy.
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Legal Instruments
Resolución directoral No 023-2013-MTPE: Perfil ocupacional de trabajadores del hogar
Resolución directoral sobre perfil ocupacional de trabajadores del hogar
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Legal Instruments
Summary of Legal Framework on Street Vendors in Peru
Summary of materials related to the legal framework for street vendors.Review of the main pieces of legislation related to this occupational...
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Stories/Case Studies
Towards Inclusion of South African Domestic Workers Under the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act
This paper situates protection
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Legal Instruments
TUC (Ghana)/WIEGO Informal Economy Legal Project Report from Sensitization Workshop for Street Vendors Held On Tuesday, 3 September 2014 at the TUC Conference Hall, Accra
This report documents the results of a discussion to identify and address laws that impact the work of street vendors,
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WIEGO Network Newsletters
Law and the Informal Economy Newsletter March 2017
Law is essential to improving livelihoods and lives. Legal frameworks, however, are designed for the formal economy. Too often, laws fail...
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Legal Instruments
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place Act, 2013
An Act to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the prevention and redrcssal of complaints of sexual...
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