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Domestic workers

  • Domestic workers comprise a significant part of the global workforce in informal employment and are among the most vulnerable groups of workers.  More

Policy resources by theme

  1. COVID-19 - Thematic analysis and practical advice
    (keyword "domestic work")
  1. Measuring domestic work
  2. Wages
  3. Working time
  4. Social and labour protection
  5. Organizing and collective bargaining
  6. Labour inspections and compliance
  7. Migrant domestic workers
  8. Formalization
  9. Cooperatives
  10. Fundamental principles and rights at work

Domestic Workers Convention

  1. Reports required from Member States on ratified & non-ratified Conventions (due date: 28 Feb. 2021)
  2. Development of Convention 189 and Recommendation 201
  3. Texts of Convention 189 and Recommendation 201
  4. C189 & R201 at a glance, an explanatory guide
  5. Who Ratified Convention 189?

What's new

  1. Our impact, their voices

    From migrant worker to labour unionist

  2. Training Policy Brief

    Protecting domestic workers in Lebanon. How to amend the labour code to better protect domestic migrant workers in Lebanon?

  3. Labour reforms

    Qatar’s new minimum wage enters into force

Video highlights

  1. C189 Anniversary: Violence and harassment in the world of work