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Domestic workers

  • Domestic workers comprise a significant part of the global workforce in informal employment and are among the most vulnerable groups of workers.  More

Policy resources by theme

  1. Measuring domestic work
  2. Wages
  3. Working time
  4. Social and labour protection
  5. Organizing and collective bargaining
  6. Labour inspections and compliance
  7. Migrant domestic workers
  8. Formalization
  9. Cooperatives
  10. Fundamental principles and rights at work

Domestic Workers Convention

  1. Development of Convention 189 and Recommendation 201
  2. Texts of Convention 189 and Recommendation 201
  3. C189 & R201 at a glance, an explanatory guide
  4. Who Ratified Convention 189?

What's new

  1. Domestic Workers' Day

    An aging Asia increases the demand for domestic workers. But what about their rights?

  2. International Women's Day

    Wagner Moura: Respect the rights of domestic workers

  3. Fair recruitment

    Philippines, Hong Kong agencies ink fair recruitment code

Video highlights

  1. C189 Anniversary: Violence and harassment in the world of work