Social Protection

Knowledge-sharing event on extension of coverage to workers in new forms of work in Asia and Pacific, 18 May and 26 May 2021

Conference paper | Online meeting | 17 August 2021
The Knowledge-sharing event on the extension of coverage to workers in new forms of work in Asia and Pacific, organized by the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific on 18 and 26 May 2021, supported by the ILO/Korea Partnership Programme, aimed at discussing the challenges placed to social protection by the emergence of new non-standard forms of work in Asia and Pacific and the solutions that countries are adopting and the current ongoing national debates.

The event was organized in collaboration with the EU-China project Improving China’s institutional capacity towards universal social protection, the Ministry of Employment and Labour of Korea, KEIS, COMWEL and ITC-ILO, offered a forum to discuss updates on policy regulations worldwide on the Platform economy.

The online seminar attracted as many as 284 participants from all over the world. In addition to this, participants had the opportunity to join the ITCILO E-Campus created for this initiative. The ITCILO E-Campus registered 309 users.