Improving conditions in the informal sector and for the working poor

Employed persons by sector and gender

(A builder and a dressmaker would be workers in the secondary sector.

Statistical Data Bulletin on Public Sector Personnel 1999, 2003

Why Financial Pay Shouldn t be Left to the Market

Also, the professionals are institutions in themselves.

The seriousness of change is illustrated by the proportion holding between those employed in the economic sector and those employed in the non economic sector before the war it was 1 to 5.6 and after the war, 1 to 2.8.

Subject to the provisos on number of employees in an establishment, women workers in the private sector are also covered.

In the public sector 81.2 of employees have incomes exceeding twice the minimum wage, whereas only 52.6 of employees in the private sector are in this income group.

On the other hand, the income and quality of work of people engaged in the informal sector are in general considerably lower than those of workers in the formal sector.

Public sector employment in Kenya is notoriously opaque.

Women do not seem to making a preponderant proportion of the informal sector workers.

The sector currently accounts for approximately 4 per cent (1,960 employees) of the total private sector employment force in the Territory. 37

60. Government and private sector businesses should capitalize on the opportunity to use the experience and skills of older workers to train younger and newer employees.

However, it is difficult to analyze this sector in detail since no reliable data can be found on the number of employed in the sector analysis of employed persons neither in private sector, nor on the physical size and value of production in the private sector.

They stood to lose billions, and many financial sector employees stood to lose their jobs.

As a consequence, we have different regulations in this area, which is reflected in the unequal realization of rights of culture workers.

(a) Continue expanding access to health services, in particular in rural areas, and increase the competence of health personnel

Public sector employees include those working in government departments, Crown corporations, treasury board agencies, boards and commissions, the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology and regional colleges, and in the health sector.

The number of the new working poor rose steadily, as the informal sector was increasingly deprived of economic growth opportunities.

Women dominate in part time work and unpaid care work and lack many of the benefits that full time paid workers enjoy.

Since 1990, urban unemployment and informal employment have increased, and the number of those employed in the formal economy has been decreasing.

The information on incomes collected in the National Employment Survey for the first quarter of 2004 indicates that the distribution of incomes among employees in the public sector is more favourable than in the private sector.

The data show that out of total number of men employed in the private sector only 29 have the status of a worker.

According to available assessments, labour in the formal sector is much older than it was in 1990.

some 361,500 people (36.2 per cent) were employed in the informal sector.

I saw a community health worker using a smart phone to manage malaria treatment within a household.

Labour laws do not yet cover workers in the informal sector, e.g. small shops, workshops as well as the agricultural work force.

In 1988, medical personnel in private practice comprised 99 doctors, 28 dentists and 29 pharmacists.

The largest private employment sector is health care and social assistance, with 16.4 million people.

Of the total employed, 27 per cent work in the public sector (28 per cent in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 24 per cent in Republika Srpska).

Third, innovation in governance can boost the pride of civil servants working in the public sector, as well as encourage a culture of continuous improvement.

The Committee further recommends that MSAR take immediate measures to ensure workers in the private sector their right to maternity leave, without placing limitations on the number of births, and to ensure that male workers in the private sector are granted the right to five days of paternity leave, as in the public sector.

The purpose of establishing the minimum monthly wage is to guarantee at least the survival minimum to all employees those working in the private sector, as well as those employed in the public sector.

The bulk of the world's labour force worked in the agricultural sector and three quarters of the working poor were in developing countries.

A moderate wage settlement for the public sector, the first one since 1992, was finally approved by Parliament in July 1994.

21.27 Establishment of a valid statistical base for civil service personnel is vital for development of effective public sector human resource planning and training.

Nevertheless, this group, which statistically represents 68.6 per cent of the working population, is the sector generating most housing demand.

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Privatization favoured those in the previous system who had access to capital, information and markets.

The public sector wage bill continues to be the largest expenditure item, consuming around 68 per cent of total 2004 expenditure.

The general assumption that formal sector employment is preferred over informal sector activity also applies to Indonesian workers.

20.2 Plans projects to bring home workers and other workers in the informal sector under the Social Insurance Act.

The Committee regrets in particular the fact that trade unionism in the public sector is not pluralistic, and that trade union officials are not elected by direct vote.

Lastly, she enquired about government initiatives to disseminate the rights of female domestic workers, who accounted for 97 per cent of the employees in that sector.