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Weekly Report - 04 May 2017 (WR-17-17)

TRACKING TRENDS

PERU | Kuczynski’s Labour Day. Marking International Labour Day on 1 May, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski proposed changes to the country’s pension and health systems to incorporate more of the country’s vast informal labour force. Of the 16m jobs in the country, 11m are informal, according to the government, meaning that they have no protections, no rights and no benefits. According to the national statistics institute (Inei), 65% of workers have no access to any kind of welfare provision, with only 35% affiliated to some kind of provider (whether private or public).

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