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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. © Gill Button 2019

    International Day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition

    Use art to end slavery

  2. International Day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition

    Between two worlds

  3. © The Daily Star 2019

    The Daily Star

    Domestic workers rights in Bangladesh

Video highlights

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