"The Economic Commission assessed the Legal Regime for the Mandatory Social Protection of Self-Employed Workers, a diploma that aims to extend the personal coverage of mandatory social protection to more workers, not yet enrolled in social security, who carry out activities without an employment contract", reads in the communiqué distributed at the end of this Wednesday's meeting of the Council of Ministers, in Luanda.
The diploma "contributes to the social protection of them and their families in certain social risks and promoting the formalization of economic activity, namely street, retail and market commerce, and taxi and motorcycle taxi transport, which, given their specific and nature, its professionals are not covered by any existing Mandatory Social Protection schemes", the statement added.
The Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers held its third ordinary meeting of the year this Wednesday, at the Presidential Palace, in Cidade Alta, having been chaired by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
