Fruit vendor in Quito, Ecuador. Photo: Teranbryan Ecu/Shuttertock
Formal employment is hard to come by in Peru, and has been for some time. Even before the arrival of the coronavirus — which has already claimed the lives of almost 65,000 Peruvians — some three quarters of the country’s labor force were in informal jobs. Now, after a disastrous 2020 which saw Peru register one of the world’s highest per capita Covid-19 mortality rates and an 11.2-percent fall in GDP, the situation is even more dramatic and no solution is in sight.
Being forced to enter the gig economy brings a series of uncertainties to Peruvian workers. Exclusion from the formal employment system means being locked out of labor rights and any modicum of job security.
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