The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 23
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Global supply chains are putting downward pressure on wages and working conditions, and distancing workers from their rights to freedom of association because workers fill permanent jobs but are denied permanent employee rights. These arrangements - found in both formal and informal work, including part-time, short-term or temporary contracts, on-call schedules, multilayered subcontracts or franchises, and bogus self-employment schemes - are designed to drive down costs. As a result of the widespread use of this practice, 1.5 billion people - 46 per cent of the world's total number of workers - are working in so called "precarious employment". In both Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, more than 70 per cent of workers are employed that way.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2016
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/385, para. 23.