Domestic Workers

Formalizing domestic work through the use of service vouchers-The particular cases of France, Belgium and the canton of Geneva

In 2011, the ILO adopted Convention n° 189 and Recommendation n° 201 on decent work for domestic workers. All over the world, a large proportion of domestic workers remain in the informal economy, and this prevents them from fully enjoying all the rights enshrined in these new standards.

In 2011, the ILO adopted Convention n° 189 and Recommendation n° 201 on decent work for domestic workers.

All over the world, a large proportion of domestic workers remain in the informal economy, and this prevents them from fully enjoying all the rights enshrined in these new standards.

Various countries and regions have set up service voucher schemes that help domestic workers to emerge from the informal economy by easing the administrative burdens on the private citizens who wish to employ them. This report briefly describes how schemes of this kind have been put in place in France, Belgium and the Swiss canton of Geneva, three places where they work particularly well.