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Intro

Session on:

Flexible Forms of Employment and the Informal Employment

Issues to discuss

Key issues

• Recent development, challenges and constraints (decent work deficits) and policy responses in China 

• Organization of the informal workers/producers (voice of presentation), migrant workers involved in the urban informal economy, etc.

Part 1 

• Flexible forms of employment in China  

• Employment in the informal economy in China     

• Decent work and the informal economy 

• Policy recommendations on labour market flexibility and employment protection

• Country-specific best practice on facilitating flexible forms of employment by government 

Part 2

Open-floor discussion, 5 special interventions (2 ILO and 3 MOLSS) are envisaged, focusing on lessons learnt with a goal to supplement the main presentations on topics described in Part 1.