Report

Innovative Approaches Taken by Workers’ Organizations to Drive Formalization

The report showcases concrete actions taken by trade unions to organize, represent, and provide meaningful services to workers in the informal economy while preventing the informalization of those in the formal economy. It highlights how trade unions have helped workers gain access to rights and protections, enforce labour standards, reduce decent work deficits, and prevent the informalization of jobs within the formal economy. It also underscores the strategic role unions have played in putting ILO Recommendation No. 204 into practice and in developing innovative pathways toward formalization.