Promoting decent work for domestic workers
Good practices, new initiatives and innovative ways to promote decent work for domestic workers will be the focus of a regional knowledge-sharing forum, to be held from 24-26 April in Bangkok.
BANGKOK (ILO News) - Good practices, new initiatives and innovative ways to promote decent work for domestic workers will be the focus of a regional knowledge-sharing forum, to be held from 24-26 April in Bangkok.
Representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, as well as domestic workers from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam will participate. The issues under discussion will include legal protection, wages (including wage protection issues), working time, contracts, skills development and building alliances.
Asia and the Pacific employed more than 21 million domestic workers in 2010, or 41 per cent of the global total. Most are women, internal or international migrant workers, and a substantial number are child domestic workers. Legal protection for domestic workers has been particularly weak in Asia with 61 per cent of domestic workers excluded from any protective labour legislation. However, this situation is now progressively changing.
In 2011 the ILO member States adopted the Domestic Workers Convention, No. 189 which will enter into force in 2013. So far four countries have ratified the Convention, including the Philippines. The forum participants will discuss follow-up measures to the Convention.
The Forum will take place at the Amari Watergate Hotel, 847 Petchburi Road, Bangkok 10400, Tel: 02 653 9000.
For more information on ILO’s initiatives on domestic workers click here.
If you wish to arrange interviews with participants please contact:
Rakawin Leechanavanichpan
Programme Officer
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Tel. 02 288 1732
Email
Krisdaporn Singhaseni
Information Officer
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Tel. 02 288 1664
Email
Representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, as well as domestic workers from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam will participate. The issues under discussion will include legal protection, wages (including wage protection issues), working time, contracts, skills development and building alliances.
Asia and the Pacific employed more than 21 million domestic workers in 2010, or 41 per cent of the global total. Most are women, internal or international migrant workers, and a substantial number are child domestic workers. Legal protection for domestic workers has been particularly weak in Asia with 61 per cent of domestic workers excluded from any protective labour legislation. However, this situation is now progressively changing.
In 2011 the ILO member States adopted the Domestic Workers Convention, No. 189 which will enter into force in 2013. So far four countries have ratified the Convention, including the Philippines. The forum participants will discuss follow-up measures to the Convention.
The Forum will take place at the Amari Watergate Hotel, 847 Petchburi Road, Bangkok 10400, Tel: 02 653 9000.
For more information on ILO’s initiatives on domestic workers click here.
If you wish to arrange interviews with participants please contact:
Rakawin Leechanavanichpan
Programme Officer
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Tel. 02 288 1732
Krisdaporn Singhaseni
Information Officer
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Tel. 02 288 1664