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The Secretary of State for Entrepreneurial Development Adalgisa Vaz emphasized that the measures implemented by the Government in this period of pandemic crisis contributed and decisively impacted the maintenancepreservation of most employment since in 2020 the unemployment rate was up by 14.5 compared to projections of this rate at 19.2. Adalgisa Vaz made this observation this morning while presiding in Praia the opening act of the workshop for the socialization of the study on informal employment in domestic work and in the formal sector of the tourism hotel and restaurant sectors.The government official began by pointing out that the Government of the IX legislature understands that it is strategic to produce data and statistical information by institutionalizing mechanisms to support the decision-making process related to employment and employability policies - whether of quality in time useful and supported by international recommendations.In this sense through Law No. 89IX2020 the Labor Market Observatory was created whose mission is to contribute to the development of employment and professional training policies through diagnoses analyses studies and evaluations that accompany the dynamics of the labor market and which constitute elements of foresight and anticipation of economic and social trends he explained.The Secretary of State for Entrepreneurial Development drew attention to the fact that in the global context informal employment is considered an important part of employment generated and developed both in the informal sector and in the formal sector of the economy. In most developing countries the number of workers in informal employment is higher than those in formal employment and Cape Verde is no exception. Informal employment transversally affects all categories of workers.He also emphasized that the health economic and social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an increase in poverty a deepening of vulnerabilities and a worsening of gender inequalities and regionalterritorial imbalances.He highlighted some fundamental measures that the Government has adopted in order to protect employment and income namely LAY-OFF facilities Moratorium on credits until March 2022 Lines of credit to companies Solidarity income attributed to REMPE workers and domestic workers and Attribution of unemployment benefit to workers with at least 60 days of social contributions.The study presented today was prepared in close technical and financial partnership between the Labor Market Observatory the International Labor Organization ILO and the National Institute of Statistics INE with the specific objective of improving the knowledge base on the informal employment in domestic work and in the formal sector of the tourism hotel and restaurant sectors and thus present subsidies for the definition of a consistent and inclusive strategy to promote decent employment in all sectors with emphasis on the four domains under study domestic work branches of tourism hotels and restaurants.It should be noted that despite the pandemic crisis the share of informal employment in total jobs decreased from 53.7 to 51.7 from 2019 to 2020.
