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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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