Overview
- Representatives from 23 public institutions signed the act formalizing the strategy during the commission’s fifth session.
- The effort is led by the Viceministry of Labor, with backing from ministries spanning Economy, Health, Education, Production, Energy and Mines, Transport, and others.
- Authorities cite that roughly seven in ten workers are informal without pensions or social protection, underscoring the policy’s urgency.
- The strategy diagnoses informality as a structural, multicausal public problem that demands systemic change across the labor market.
- Its three pillars prioritize boosting formal employability, cutting barriers to formalization, and raising enterprise productivity, with operational measures to be detailed in the upcoming Plan Multisectorial.