All publications: domestic workers

Promoting integration of migrant domestic workers in Europe (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project: RER/11/01/EEC - Evaluation Consultant: Peter Mahy

Booklet

Extension of social protection of migrant domestic workers in Europe

'Extension of social protection of migrant domestic workers in Europe' provides an introduction to the ILO's social security mandate and the EU's social security legal framework, exploring how each applies to migrant domestic workers. It also...

Migrant domestic workers in action: Leaflet

Around the world, at least 52 million people - over 80% of whom are women - earn their living as domestic workers. They clean, cook, look after children and take care of the elderly, among other tasks. Domestic workers provide much needed skills and...

Child domestic work: Global estimates 2012

This fact sheet is an update to the global estimates on child domestic work 2008

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 42

The visible face of women's invisible labour, Domestic workers in Turkey

The estimation of total domestic workers in Indonesia

The study is aimed at estimating domestic workers in Indonesia based on the existing data provided by the regular household surveys; namely, the National Labour Force Survey or Sakernas and the National Socio-Economic Survey or Susenas.

Follow-up to the resolution concerning efforts to make decent work a reality for domestic workers worldwide: Progress report

As a framework for follow-up to the 2011 resolution concerning efforts to make decent work a reality for domestic workers worldwide, the Office prepared a strategy for action which was presented to and discussed by the Governing Body in November...

International Migration Papers No. 118

Promoting integration for migrant domestic workers in Europe: A synthesis of Belgium, France, Italy and Spain

This report is based on the findings of research conducted in Belgium, France, Italy and Spain, as part of project on “integration of migrant domestic workers in Europe”, implemented by the ILO and its partners with the financial support of the...

International Migration Papers No. 117

Promoting integration for migrant domestic workers in France (in French)

The French country report of the European research project “Promoting the integration of migrant domestic workers” analyses the trajectories of migrants working in the domestic services sector in France. Although the sector has been significantly...

International Migration Papers No. 117

Executive Summary - Promoting integration for migrant workers in France

The French country report of the European research project “Promoting the integration of migrant domestic workers” analyses the trajectories of migrants working in the domestic services sector in France. Although the sector has been significantly...

International Migration Papers No. 116

Executive Summary - Promoting integration for migrant workers in Belgium

Domestic workers provide an invaluable contribution to societies, yet still too often their work is not valued as such, and they remain a largely hidden and often vulnerable workforce. The Convention of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on...

International Migration Papers No. 116

Promoting integration for migrant domestic workers in Belgium

Domestic workers provide an invaluable contribution to societies, yet still too often their work is not valued as such, and they remain a largely hidden and often vulnerable workforce. The Convention of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on...

International Migration Papers No. 115

Promoting integration for migrant domestic workers in Italy

Since the 1970s, the labour market of domestic services has experienced a considerable growth in Italy, becoming over the past decade the main sector of employment for migrant women: in 2011, more than one foreign woman in two (51.3 per cent) was...

Know your rights leaflet

Questions and answers on decent work for migrant domestic workers

International Migration Papers No. 115

Executive Summary - Promoting integration for migrant workers in Italy

Since the 1970s, the labour market of domestic services has experienced a considerable growth in Italy, becoming over the past decade the main sector of employment for migrant women: in 2011, more than one foreign woman in two (51.3 per cent) was...

International Migration Papers No. 114

Promoting integration for migrant domestic workers in Spain

This case study of the Spanish situation is part of a wider international project, ‘Promoting Integration of Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe’, led and promoted by the ILO, funded by the European Commission and with research carried out by four...

International Migration Papers No. 114

Executive Summary - Promoting integration for migrant workers in Spain

This case study of the Spanish situation is part of a wider international project, ‘Promoting Integration of Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe’, led and promoted by the ILO, funded by the European Commission and with research carried out by four...

Unionzing Domestic Workers: Case Study of the INTUC-Karnataka Domestic Workers Congress

The documents the processes and steps that have successfully helped the INTUC Karnataka and KDWC to organise these highly vulnerable group of workers into a union, which has been working towards ensuring better working conditions for domestic...

Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 6

“Meeting the needs of my family too”: Maternity protection and work-family measures for domestic workers

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

Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

Gabay impormasyon para sa mga migranteng kasambahay sa Lebanon (In Tagalog)

Sa Lebanon, ang International Labour Organization (ILO) ay nakipag-ugnayan sa mga awtoridad na Lebanese at civil society sa isang dayalogo upang makabuo ng mga polisiya para siguraduhin ang mga tuntunin at kundisyon sa pagkakaroon ng disenteng...