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No law can Change behaviour of employer : Domestic Worker  On International Domestic Workers’ Day,  Domestic Worker Rights Activists  celebrate a growing movement to assert the rights of this vast but hidden workforce. An estimated 67.1 million people are employed in domestic work around the world, most of them wome n. Domestic work has enabled many women to enter the labour market and benefit from economic autonomy Domestic workers, Jakarta Indonesia   Copyright: ILO/A. Ridwan  The large supply of domestic workers in India has meant a meant a shift of care responsibilities from women in the households to hired domestic workers who are a predominantly female and largely invisible Domestic worker is a person who is employed in any household on a temporary or permanent basis to do the household work. In the decade after liberalisation, there was a nearly 120% rise in the number of domestic workers in India. ...

The Future of labour  We Want  : I nnovative workforce The idea that work plays a number of universal roles in the lives of individuals and societies – meeting material need, providing individual self-fulfilment, connecting the individual to society – does not mean that everybody wants, or expects, exactly the same thing from work, or that preferences will not change over time. If they are in a position to do so, different people will make different decisions about the trade-offs between paid work and free time, about the workload or responsibilities they wish to take on, or indeed about whether or not to participate in the workforce at all at any given time Quartz Media reported that Automation, advanced manufacturing, AI, and the shift to e-commerce are dramatically changing the number and nature of jobs around the world. Ride-sharing startups and others are ushering in the rise of part-time work and redefining what it means to be an employee. What is the fut...

Two billion of the world’s employed population aged 15 and over work informally, representing 61.2 per cent of global employment : ILO The new report “Towards a More Equal City: Including the Excluded”, says the creation and reform of local economic development plans, urban land use plans, urban policy, and laws and regulations must be participatory and include informal workers, those who represent informal workers, and other relevant stakeholders.  “Include informal worker leaders in participatory policymaking and rule-setting processes such as development plans and urban land allocation plans,” says the WRI report.  This includes increasing informal workers’ access to public services, public spaces and public procurement.  And to better harness and encourage economic growth city governments and local officials should acknowledge the economic contribution informal workers make to the urban economy and reduce harassment and penalisation.  “Cities sh...