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Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve their disputes with local authorities. Through the author’s personal reflection, the brief explores how we as lawyers can engage in social movement lawyering...
Watch this 90-minute discussion, which makes the case for homeworkers to be included in EU legislation and corporate due diligence. This session was part of the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector and was co-hosted by organizations including WIEGO, HomeNet International...
Contested Urban Spaces: Urbanisation, Law, and Informal Work is a two-year edited book project by WIEGO and IRGLUS that explores this theme across multiple jurisdictions and from diverse viewpoints. How do informal worker livelihoods interface with urban space, law, and the state in the globalised...
Date: January 27 – January 28, 2022 Programme Contested Urban Spaces: Urbanisation, Law, and Informal Work is a two-year edited book project by WIEGO and IRGLUS that explores this theme across multiple jurisdictions and from diverse viewpoints. How do informal worker livelihoods interface with urban...
Domestic workers around the world face a decent work deficit that is due to exclusions from labour laws, the low value associated with the work, and uneven employer-employee relationships. Lack of empowerment and access to justice limit their ability to challenge violations and realize their rights...
This analysis covers COVID-19 laws in seven Asian countries, namely, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Key Points Our analysis shows that the COVID-19 laws and policies in India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam largely...
This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (ACHPR) advisory opinion, which was delivered in response to a continental challenge against vagrancy laws on the grounds that they violate several...
This study examines the laws and regulations passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, and their impact on informal vendors, including market and street vendors. Our analysis covers 16 countries in the region – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El...
Contested Urban Spaces: Urbanisation, Law, and Informal Work is a two-year edited book project by WIEGO and IRGLUS that explores this theme across multiple jurisdictions and from diverse viewpoints. To participate in this project, please submit an abstract of between 300-400 words to the editors by...
Provides an introduction to the informal economy, including: labour law and its scope; the definition of informal economy; an overview of the different occupational groups and employment statuses; challenges to regulating waged and self-employed workers; and legal strategies to support informal...
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.