Labour standards- ultimate the gap for rural workers

‘Rural workers often fall outside the scope of national labour laws in a number of cases, they are explicitly excluded, either fully or partially, from the relevant laws, or, when they are hovered under the law, they are excluded from protection in practice. The labour protection gap is huge and hence the dimension of the decent work deficit for rural workers. This severe decent work deficit needs to be addressed if approaches to address rural employment and reduce poverty are to be successful.