The ILAW Network and WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) invite you to attend the second webinar in our series on strategies to extend labor rights to informal workers. This webinar will focus on two occupational groups’ fight for recognition as employees: domestic workers (in South Africa) and waste pickers (in Colombia). One of the biggest challenges in ensuring rights for informal workers is legal recognition of their status as workers. This webinar will look at how worker organisations and their lawyers used courts and advocacy strategies to fight for their recognition as employees. In the case of informal waste pickers, this led to their integration into Bogota’s waste management system, and in the case of domestic workers in South Africa, to their accessing compensation for work-related injuries and occupationally acquired diseases. This webinar will engage with the advocacy strategies, the jurisprudence, and legislative amendments that followed from the Mahlangu and Another v Minister of Labour and Others case in South Africa and the orders of compliance with Judgment T-724 of 2003, Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) against the Capital District of Bogotá, in Colombia (Auto (Pronouncement) 268 of 2010; Auto (pronouncement) 275 of 2011; Auto (pronouncement) 587 of 2015).

On 20 May 2021 at 10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Spanish interpretation will be available.