Fact sheets on domestic workers
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From global care crisis to quality care at home: The case for including domestic workers in care policies and ensuring their rights at work
08 March 2024
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Extending social security to domestic workers
12 March 2021
Key lessons learned from international experience
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Extending social security to workers in the informal economy
12 March 2021
Key lessons learned from international experience
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Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on loss of jobs and hours among domestic workers
15 June 2020
The ILO estimates that, in the early stages of the pandemic, on 15 March 2020, 49.3% of domestic workers were significantly impacted. This figure peaked at 73.7% on 15 May, before reducing to 72.3% on 4 June.
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Beyond contagion or starvation: Giving domestic workers another way forward
05 May 2020
In the wake of COVID-19, governments around the world have called on people to take one most important action: to stay home. But for many workers, staying home has meant losing their jobs, or worse still, losing their livelihoods.
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Pilot testing a behavioural intervention to engage employers of domestic workers in the fight for fair recruitment
06 June 2018
The ILO partnered with HelperChoice, an online platform in Hong Kong through which employers can find domestic workers for hire, to carry out a behavioural intervention to encourage employers of domestic workers to help promote fair recruitment.
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Formalizing domestic work
23 June 2017
This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.
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Making decent work a reality for migrant domestic workers
17 December 2015
This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.
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Domestic work voice and representation through organizing
15 December 2015
This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.
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Collective bargaining and non-standard forms of employment: Practices that reduce vulnerability and ensure work is decent
14 December 2015
Collective bargaining is widely recognized as an important tool for improving working conditions and labour relations, but can it play the same role for workers in non-standard forms of employment? This issue brief looks at the ways in which collective bargaining is used to negotiate better terms and conditions of employment for workers in temporary and part-time employment, and in forms of employment involving multiple parties, such as temporary agency work.