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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. Publication

    Advancing domestic workers’ rights through cooperatives in Trinidad and Tobago: An ILO, NUDE and SWCC initiative

  2. © Leila Aloui / ILO 2018

    Domestic Work

    Reforming the migrant domestic work sector in the Arab region vital to welfare of both workers and employers – ILO report

  3. Publication

    Domestic workers and employers in the Arab States: Promising practices and innovative models for a productive working relationship

Video highlights

  1. Domestic workers' rights: let's keep the momentum