The crisis in Lebanon has increased levels of informality in business and in employment. Informal enterprises unfairly compete with formal enterprises Workers in the informal economy lack basic protections such has health care, a written contract and access to social protection.
Supporting enterprise formalization as a means of creating level playing field for companies and decent work opportunities for workers in the informal economy is a prominent pillar of policy recommendations driven by Association of Lebanese Industrialists, the ILO and many other international organizations sand CSOs.
