All publications: domestic workers

Achieving Decent Work for Domestic Workers

An organizer’s manual to promote ILO convention no. 189 and build domestic workers’ power.

Working paper

Regional Trade Agreements and domestic labour market regulation

Employment Working Paper No. 120

Working with migrant domestic workers in Lebanon (1980-2012): a mapping of NGO services

The main purpose of the report is to explore how NGO agendas in the MDW subfield have progressed since the deliberations of the National Steering Committee on Women Migrant Domestic Workers. I expect it will be helpful in informing the interventions...

Form for reports on the application of ratified Conventions (article 22 of the Constitution): Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)

The Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) was adopted in June 2011. As per established practice, soon after the adoption of a new international labour Convention, the Governing Body establishes the questionnaire that the governments of...

Country profile: domestic work legislation in Spain

The Government of Spain recently promulgated Royal Decree 1620/2011 of 14 November, regulating the special relationship that characterizes service within the family household.

Brochure

Project Brief: Combating Child Labour in Central Asia - Commitment becomes Action PROACT CAR Phase III

Domestic work - Decent work: A 'smart guide' for domestic workers in Thailand

This booklet gives you advice on how to work and travel safely in Thailand, how to avoid abusive agents and employers, and where to go if you need help.

An explanatory brochure

Convention 189 & Recommendation 201 at a glance

Highlights of the provisions of the Domestic Workers Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201. These new standards, adopted in June 2011, are a strong recognition of the economic and social value of domestic work and a call for action to...

Domestic workers

Luzon Consultation Forum on ILO Convention No. 189

Campaign to support for the ratification of the ILO Convention No. 189 and the passage of the Kasambahay Bill.

Convention 189 & Recommendation 201 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers

This booklet presents a set of new international labour standards – Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 concerning decent work for domestic workers - adopted on 16 June 2011 by the ILO’s International Labour Conference.

Fact sheet on Domestic Workers' profile and working conditions in the Philippines

This factsheet presents the profile of domestic workers and their employers in the Philippines, and provides an insight into two important aspects of domestic work, namely wages and working hours.

Fact sheet on Domestic workers in Asia and the Pacific

Work in households and homes is as old as time, vital for the well-being of families, communities and societies at large. Traditionally done by women and girls without pay, domestic work is often not perceived as “real employment”. Some argue that...

Decent work for domestic workers

Decent work for domestic workers: Project fact sheet

The Domestic Workers Project aimed to focus on key areas of action: pushing for laws for domestic workers to be passed; studying and teaching more for the situation of the domestic workers to be understood; and reaching out to domestic workers to...

Domestic workers

Consultation Forum with Private Recruitment and Placement Agencies for Domestic Workers on ILO Convention No. 189

Domestic workers are entitled to fair terms of employment and decent working and living conditions.

The long road home: Journeys of Indonesian migrant workers

Consisting of an approximately 80 photos, the essay illustrates the journeys taken by the Indonesian domestic migrant workers throughout the cycles of migration from pre-departure and departure stages to placement and reintegration stages.

Matters arising out of the work of the 100th Session (2011) of the International Labour Conference. Follow-up to the adoption of the...

The paper provides a brief overview of the rationale for and the overall thrust and content of the new Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189), and Recommendation (No. 201) that were adopted through tripartite consensus and with overwhelming support...

Convention No. 189 - Questions and answers

This short factsheet will help you understand what Convention No. 189 is, who it covers, and what minimum standards it sets.

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 30

Measuring the economic and social value of domestic work: Conceptual and methodological framework

Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 5

Coverage of domestic workers by key working conditions laws

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

Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 4

Global and regional estimates on domestic workers

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