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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post COVID-19, ILO calls for national-level policy on those working from home -Kiran Pandey

Post COVID-19, ILO calls for national-level policy on those working from home -Kiran Pandey

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published Published on Jan 14, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 15, 2021

-Down to Earth

There is an urgency to adopt global labour standards and improve national-level labour registries for home-based workers, organisation says in its new report

There is a need to develop effective policies for home-based workers and ensure their proper implementation even as the practice had increased since the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report.

Just 10 countries had ratified the Convention on Homework nearly 25 years since it was adopted by the International Labour Conference June 20, 1996, the ILO report said.

Few governments had a comprehensive policy for working from home in place, the report titled Working from home: From invisibility to decent work that was release January 13, 2021, said. As a result, those working from home, especially in low-income countries, continued to work in poor working conditions.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there were approximately 260 million home-based workers worldwide, representing 7.9 per cent of global employment. Of these, 56 per cent or 147 million were women, according to the report.

The report talked about three main types of home-based workers:

   -Industrial home-based workers, who are involved in the production of goods including artisanal production, such as making of handicrafts, rolling of beedis, making of laces, etc
   -Teleworkers, who use information and communication technologies to perform their work remotely
   -Home-based digital platform workers, who are ‘crowdworkers’ that perform service-sector tasks as specified by employers or intermediaries

Despite contributing significantly to the economy, home-based working had remained “invisible”, the report said.

It also noted that the propensity of women to work from home — 11.5 per cent — was much higher than that of men (5.6 per cent).

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Down to Earth, 14 January, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/economy/post-covid-19-ilo-calls-for-national-level-policy-on-those-working-from-home-75065?fbclid=IwAR0Ye_vfhTDScCnbJ3hZSY75IBWDgqg3nmIoG6jnUJ47KYZVsmLqN56Uj5U


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