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July 2013
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“Meeting the needs of my family too”: Maternity protection and work-family measures for domestic workers
01 July 2013
This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.
June 2013
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Equal Pay - An introductory guide
24 June 2013
Ensuring that the work done by women and men is valued fairly and ending pay discrimination is essential to achieving gender equality. However, pay inequality continues to persist and gender pay gaps in some instances have stagnated or even increased.
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Work Sharing during the Great Recession: New Developments and Beyond (SUMMARY)
18 June 2013
This volume examines the resurgent interest in and use of work sharing as a job preservation strategy during the Great Recession of 2008–09. It also considers the crisis experience for the potential use of work sharing to generate jobs, thus contributing to the ongoing debate on its efficacy as an employment creation measure. The book offers in-depth analysis of work sharing in Europe – specifically in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands – and in the diverse contexts of Japan, Turkey, the United States and Uruguay. It synthesizes the main lessons learned from the country cases and considers their implications for the future of work sharing.
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Work Sharing during the Great Recession: New developments and beyond
18 June 2013
This volume presents the concept and history of work sharing, how it can be used as a strategy for preserving jobs and also its potential for increasing employment − including the complexities and trade-offs involved. Work-sharing programmes used during the Great Recession of 2008−09 are analysed for several European countries and other countries around the world.
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© AFP / Pal PILLAI 2013Work sharing can save jobs in times of crisis
18 June 2013
Reducing hours of work can have positive effects on employment levels during a severe economic downturn, preserve skills and sustain enterprises.
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© S.Sekhri / The Times Of India 2013Ten million child labourers in domestic work
12 June 2013
To mark World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO publishes a report outlining the abuses suffered by millions of children working in family homes.
May 2013
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Snapshot: ILO in action, domestic workers
31 May 2013
A growing number of countries are taking measures to improve the living and working conditions of domestic workers. But the momentum needs to be stepped up to ensure that domestic workers worldwide enjoy labour rights, just like other workers.
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Paraguay ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
09 May 2013
On 7 May 2013, the Government of Paraguay deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). Paraguay is the seventh ILO member State and the third Latin American member State to ratify this instrument which, in accordance with its Article 21, paragraph 2 of the Convention, will enter into force on 5 September 2013, twelve months after the date on which it was ratified by two ILO member States.
April 2013
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Bolivia ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
18 April 2013
Bolivia is the sixth ILO member State and the second Latin American member State to ratify this instrument
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© Adam Jones / Flickr 2013Momentum grows for domestic workers legislation
02 April 2013
A constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal rights for domestic workers in Brazil comes into force on 2 April. Several countries have now passed legislation protecting domestic workers – evidence that the momentum sparked by the ILO Convention on domestic workers is growing.
March 2013
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Commission urges EU countries to implement ILO domestic workers Convention
26 March 2013
The European Commission has presented a proposal for a Council Decision authorising EU countries to ratify the International Labour Organisation 2011 Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers (Convention No. 189).
January 2013
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Italy ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
22 January 2013
Italy is the 4th ILO member State and the first EU member State to ratify this instrument which seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.
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Domestic workers deserve a better deal
15 January 2013
Op-ed by Malte Luebker, ILO Senior Regional Wage Specialist, published in the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) on 12 January 2013.
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Uniting on the home front
11 January 2013
Against all the odds, domestic workers around the world have joined forces to push for better working conditions.
December 2012
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Gender pay gap drops, but not for the right reasons
19 December 2012
An ILO report says women’s pay has become closer to that of men in most countries but warns that in some cases this may just mean that men are worse off now than before the crisis.
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Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and Equitable Growth
07 December 2012
The Global Wage Report 2012/13 looks at differences in wages around the globe and how they have been influenced by the economic crisis. It includes global and regional wage trends and statistics, as well as policy recommendations.
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Workers getting a smaller slice of the pie
07 December 2012
Workers have been getting a smaller share of national income, as a bigger slice has gone to profits in most countries. This trend has wide-ranging economic and social implications.
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Minimum wages key to cutting working poverty, says ILO
07 December 2012
Minimum wages reduce working poverty and protect vulnerable workers. Their levels reflect both the needs of workers and the prevailing economic conditions and level of national income.
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Global Wage Report 2012-13
07 December 2012
As the gap in labour productivity growth and wage growth increases, workers get a smaller slice of the pie. The Global Wage Report 2012/13 analyses the possible effects of this declining labour income share on aggregate demand and so on equitable growth.
October 2012
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Domestic workers in Europe falling through the loopholes
24 October 2012
Many domestic workers in Europe do not enjoy as much legal protection as other workers. ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers – which will come into force in a year’s time – offers a chance to improve the lives of the millions of people who work in this profession.