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First Independent Evaluation of the 8.7 Accelerator Lab – 2021 - 2023

eval_number:

3217

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3217

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Labour legislation

category:

International Labour Standards

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comments:

Workers in the fishing sector

challenges:

While the 8.7 Accelerator Lab made important progress in improving employment benefits, not all targeted workers benefited.

success:

Greater awareness and demand among stakeholders to cover all the workers, including those under a service contract.

context:

Employment benefits and social security functions are often limited to persons working on an employment contract. Persons working on civil contracts (e.g. commission and service contracts) do not benefit from provisions under employment law.

description:

In some countries, improvements in employment law achieved by the 8.7 Accelerator Lab do not benefit workers on service contracts. Therefore, the scope of protection under employment law would need to be expanded as well.Improvements in employment benefits and social security provisions often exclude workers who do not engage in formal employment contracts, highlighting a disparity in the accessibility of such improvements based on contract types. Improvements in working conditions introduced by the 8.7 Accelerator Lab, such as maternity and paternity leave for fishers in South Africa, did not directly benefit individuals working on a commission or under service contracts.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1680699

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

First Independent Evaluation of the 8.7 Accelerator Lab – 2021 - 2023