All publications: domestic workers

Development of a Tripartite Framework for the Support and Protection of Ethiopian Women Domestic Migrant Workers to the GCC States, Lebanon...

Project: RAF/12/09/EEC - Evaluation Consultant: Prof. Oladele Arowolo

Domestic workers organize – but can they bargain?

Does the traditional form of collective negotiation have the same potential to ensure decent working conditions in the sector? Or are there other forms, adapted to the sector that would be more effective in ensuring compliance with standards set...

Working Paper

Cooperating out of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait

While countries globally are moving towards recognizing domestic workers under their labour legislation, limited protection is provided to more than two million domestic workers working and living in the Middle East. The majority of these workers...

The rights of domestic workers. A primer on ILO CONVENTION No. 189 (Domestic Workers Convention) & RA 10361 Domestic Workers Act (Batas...

Domestic work is a valuable, but often unrecognized contribution to the well-being of families and to the functioning of economy and society.

Regional Model Competency Standards: Domestic work

These Regional Model Competency Standards for Domestic Work have been developed by the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. They constitute a set of benchmarks that define the skills, knowledge and attributes required for domestic work as...

Fact sheet

Information Passport for Migrant Domestic Workers in Paraguay-Argentina Migration Corridor

A passport size brochure, developed as part of the EU funded Global Action Programme for Migrant Domestic Workers and Their Families (GAP-MDW), was designed on request of workers’ organizations to guide Paraguayan domestic workers in Argentina...

Fact sheet

Information Passport for Migrant Domestic Workers in Ukraine-Poland Migration Corridor

A passport size brochure, developed as part of the EU funded Global Action Programme for Migrant Domestic Workers and Their Families (GAP-MDW), was designed on request of workers’ organizations to guide Ukrainian domestic workers in Poland through...

Decent work for domestic workers

Women domestic worker empowerment programme in the Philippines: Final project fact sheet

Numerous laws and legislations for workers had been passed in several countries but they all excluded domestic workers since for domestic work was always perceived as not a real form of employment. During the 100th Session of the International...

Domestic workers in the Philippines

Domestic workers empowerment programme (DWEP): Final project fact sheet

Domestic work is one of the most important occupations for millions of workers, mostly women in the country and around the world.

Thematic Labour Overview 1: Transition to Formality in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Informality is a large-scale situation with multiple causes; at the same time it is highly heterogeneous, and is characterized by an acute shortage of decent work. Most people who work in the informal economy are exposed to inadequate and insecure...

Cooperatives and the World of Work Series No. 2

Cooperating out of isolation: Domestic workers’ cooperatives

This note on ways cooperatives provide a way out of precarious and informal working arrangements for domestic workers, is the third in the series on Cooperatives and the World of Work.

Brochure

Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Advocating Institutional Reform in the Middle East

In the majority of Arab countries, migrant domestic workers are not covered by the labour law. The overwhelming majority of these workers are women from Asia and Africa who provide labour services in a workplace where rights are not clearly defined...

Making Decent Work a Reality for Domestic Workers Swedish funding towards Outcome 5 (Final evaluation summary)

Project: GLO/11/54/SID - Evaluation Consultant: Una Murray

Tools for researching domestic work

Qualitative research on employment relationship and working conditions: preliminary guidelines

Access to justice for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

This study analyzes the legal framework of immigration and employment in the sector of domestic work and traces the development of case law of criminal courts and Labour Arbitration Councils since 2000 in cases involving migrant domestic workers...

Global Action Programme on Migration Domestic Workers and their Families (Project leaflet)

The Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (Migrant Domestic Workers in Action) seeks to address the specific challenges migrant domestic workers face by implementing global advocacy and knowledge development...

TOOLS FOR RESEARCHING DOMESTIC WORK

ILO survey on domestic workers: preliminary guidelines

Child Domestic Workers (CDW) in Indonesia: Case studies of Jakarta and greater areas

Focus on child and adolescent domestic workers in Delhi and Ranchi, India

This study offers a more textured and nuanced understanding of the differences between the younger and older children regarding how they experience and perceive domestic work.

Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 7

Working time of live-in domestic workers

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