CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 rated, piece-rate), ownership of establishments retrenching or closing, workers affected by noncompliance to labor standards, compliance data on gender equality standards, and the like. The situation of women entrepreneurs needs looking into, but it has been difficult to establish a database on them. Work conditions and social protection 422. The Anti-Sexual Harassment Law has to be reviewed, particularly the scope and its enforcement in the private sector. Presently, the law is not clear as to which agency should monitor private sector observance of the law. Data on its implementation in this sector are also not available. 423. Compliance to labor legislation on gender-based discrimination need to be monitored regularly and sanctions imposed on violators. One may assume that if compliance rates to general labor standards, such as the minimum wage, and payment of SSS premiums by employers are low, compliance rate to gender equality standards would also be low, if not lower. 424. Occupational hazards persist for women, men, girls, and boys. These may be greater in the informal sector and in small enterprises where workers are often not aware of the occupational hazards and risks they face. There is a need to disseminate a wide range of information to raise the awareness on the risks and dangers and the needed precautions for those in hazardous occupations. This can be reinforced with continuous seminars for small and medium enterprises in hazardous industries to enlighten both the workers and the owners about the dangers inherent in their jobs. 425. Data on beneficiaries must be disaggregated by sex to determine how many women and men avail of and have access to social benefits. This is particularly important in light of the fact that women have higher life expectancy than men and depend on their pension as support in their old age. On health insurance, there is a need to advocate for the provision of full benefits to beneficiaries who will pay the full cost of hospital charges, doctor’s fees, surgical expenses and surgical or family planning procedures. Support for self-employed workers, particularly those in the informal sector 426. Workers in the informal sector continue to face problems related to social protection. There is the difficulty to access formal social security measures due to the complexity of the SSS administrative processes from registration, collection of contributions, and verification of claims to actual provision of the benefits. Given the irregularity and seasonality of informal sector workers’ incomes, their financial capacity to pay the required contributions, by itself, is already a serious concern. Identifying the correct and necessary amount of contribution and mode of collection further complicate the problem. Also, there are acknowledged difficulties with respect to the adjudication of benefits, such as requirements and procedures for access, particularly for the self-employed. Finally, informal sector workers are hardly organized. This fragmentation and, sometimes, isolation, makes it extremely difficult for social development agencies and, probably, specialized insurance companies to reach them for the extension of social protection and support services. 115