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Remuneration in domestic work

This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.

Type: Fact sheet
Date issued: 19 May 2011
Authors: Mr. Martin Oelz, Legal Specialist on Working Conditions, TRAVAIL.

This policy brief:

• reviews factors behind domestic workers’ low levels of remuneration;

• presents examples illustrating how countries have used minimum wage setting to protect domestic workers' remuneration;

• explores domestic workers’ vulnerability to abusive practices in relation to payment of remuneration, and possible measures to address them; and

• concludes by proposing points for consideration by concerned policy makers.

Tags: domestic workers, remuneration, discrimination, gender equality

Unit responsible: Conditions of Work

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