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farms and plantations, whether paid or unpaid, regular or season-bound. These
shall include but shall not be limited to: (i) small farmers who own or are still
amortizing lands that are not more than three (3) hectares, tenants, leaseholders
and stewards; and (ii) rural workers who are either wage earners, selfemployed, unpaid family workers directly and personally engaged in
agriculture, small-scale mining, handicrafts and other related on-farm/off-farm
activities;
(2) “Fisherfolk” refers to those directly or indirectly engaged in taking,
culturing or processing fishery or aquatic resources. These include, but are not
limited to, women engaged in fishing in municipal waters and coastal areas,
women workers in commercial fishing and aquaculture, vendors and
processors of fish and coastal products, and subsistence producers such as
shell-gatherers, managers and producers of mangrove resources and other
related producers;
(3) “Urban poor” refers to those residing in urban and urbanizable slum
or blighted areas, with or without the benefit of security of tenure, where the
income of the head of the family cannot afford in a sustained manner to
provide for the family the minimum basic needs of food, health, education,
housing and other essential amenities in life;
(4) “Workers in the formal economy” refers to those who are employed
by any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in
relation to an employee and shall include the government and all its branches,
subdivisions and instrumentalities, all government-owned or -controlled
corporations and institutions, or as well as nonprofit private institutions or
organizations;
(5) “Workers in the informal economy” refers to self-employed,
occasionally or personally hired, subcontracted and unpaid family workers in
household unincorporated enterprises, including home workers, microentrepreneurs and producers, and operators of sari-sari stores and all other
categories who suffer from violation of workers’ rights;