CENTROW responds to the challenges and opportunities for decent work that inhere in the digital transformation of work and is involved in community- engaged research on overcoming barriers to decent work in a fast-changing global environment. CENTROWs activities promote the design and implementation of innovative labour laws and regulatory strategies that achieve decent work, and support UN SDG 8 – inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all and the aspirations of Agenda 2063.

CENTROW strives to be a leading Centre for engaged research and advocacy for effective labour laws and labour market regulation and policy promoting decent work and social justice in South Africa, in the region, and on the continent.

CENTROW was formally constituted in November 2020, consolidating and building on initiatives undertaken in labour and social security law beginning with the establishment of the Social Law Project (SLP) in 1993.