ILO/GASI Webinar on Extending Social Security to Workers in the Informal Economy

Informal employment, both in the informal sector and the formal sector, remains a significant proportion of employment in Mongolia. According to the Labour-Force Survey by NSO, as of 2019, the share of informal employment was 48.2 percent including agriculture (31.5 percent, excluding agriculture). Herders, informal workers and self-employed population can contribute voluntarily to social insurance while all employees and workers working under an employment contract or civil work contract (in the private and public sector) are covered by compulsory social insurance. Participation in the voluntary social insurance system remains low, leaving almost one out of every five workers in the former group without adequate protection in case of sickness, maternity, employment injury and old age.

The General Authority for Social Insurance is organizing a series of expert level consultations on extending social security to workers in the informal economy with the following objectives:

• To facilitate a knowledge-based dialogue among relevant national stakeholders, learning from international experiences
• To develop workable ideas and recommendations on extending social security to workers in the informal economy with a view to contributing to the ongoing discussion on the social insurance reform.

The first webinar will cover the following sessions:

• Informal Employment in Mongolia: Current situation and trends
• Informal Economy Workers: Social insurance coverage, advantages and disadvantages of the social insurance administration to address needs of these workers and possible solutions to extend the coverage
• ILO strategies, international experiences and lessons

About 30 social protection and labour experts, practitioners and staff from the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, the General Authority for Social Insurance, the National Statistical Office, the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions, the Mongolian Employers’ Federation, the Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, and independent researchers will attend.

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