ILAW Network and WIEGO: strategic and creative litigation and advocacy strategies to enhance, protect and realize the labour and collective rights of workers in the informal economy

The ILAW Network and WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) invite you to attend the fourth webinar in our series on strategic and creative litigation and advocacy strategies to enhance, protect and realize the labour and collective rights of workers in the informal economy. This webinar focuses on homeworkers (industrial outworkers). It contrasts legislative approaches in three countries–Pakistan, Australia and Thailand–and discusses the strategies used by trade unions, homeworkers and their allies for homeworkers to be legally recognised as supply chain workers.

In Thailand, HomeNet Thailand, with the support of the ILO and other allies advocated for the innovative HomeWorker Protection Act (2010). In Australia, The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of New South Wales fought for industrial outworkers to be recognised as employees. Australia is the first country in the world to introduce a supply chain approach. In Pakistan, the Home-Based Women Workers Federation, together with its allies, struggled for the Sindh Home-based Workers Act, which was promulgated in 2018.