Video | ‘Your only insurance is your daily wage’
With Parliament's Manpower Committee discussing a potential insurance law for informal workers who depend on daily wages, Solafa Salam speaks to craftspersons on the pressures of their professions; from a lack of state-provided health and social insurance, to classist discrimination by wider society.
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