The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) installed this Wednesday the sectoral group that will be in charge of promoting labor formalization, as well as promoting the self-employment of independent workers or entrepreneurs.
The group, called “Working group in charge of proposing specific mechanisms for the promotion and formalization of productive self-employment in decent work conditions”, is of a temporary nature that, in a period of 90 working days, must prepare a work plan and guidelines policy and service model proposal that supports productive self-employment.
For this, it will have the technical assistance of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
The sectoral working group was installed by the Vice Minister of Employment Promotion and Labor Training, Adolfo Vizcarra Kusien, who ratified the MTPE’s commitment to address the problem of self-employed workers.
“Today, with a change in the Government’s perception of the rights and needs of workers in the country, I am pleased to be at the opening and installation of this working group to promote and encourage the formalization and promotion of self-employment, known as independent or entrepreneurs, who are part of the engine that moves this country”, Vice Minister Vizcarra said.
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The deputy minister explained that almost 40% of the Economically Active Population (PEA) generate their resources from self-employment and, over time, these workers have been invisible, since they did not have the opportunity to generate instruments that help them. to defend their rights and, less so, to promote formalization.
According to the Labor Economy Bulletin No. 52 (DISEL/MTPE), in Peru there are self-employed out of necessity and those who choose this option voluntarily.
The self-employed involuntarily or by necessity are the majority and represent 61.6% of the total number of self-employed workers.
The self-employed are people between the ages of 30 and 59 who live in urban areas and have children at home. However, women are more present in self-employed work that is involuntary or out of necessity (54.5%) than in voluntary work (47%).
