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Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Progress and prospects ten years after the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)

15 June 2021

This report assesses the working conditions of domestic workers ten years after the adoption of Domestic Workers Convention in 2011. It highlights the progress made over a decade, as well as the remaining legal and implementation gaps, and provides guidance on policies that can pave the way to make decent work a reality for domestic workers.

Global Wage Report 2020-21: Factsheet for the European Union

21 May 2021

This factsheet provides key findings for the European Union from the ILO flagship Global Wage Report 2020-21
Malta ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention

17 May 2021

Malta becomes the 32nd ILO member State to ratify Convention No. 189

Webinar: Launch of report "Working from home: From invisibility to decent work"

This event provides the opportunity to learn more about the increase of home work during the COVID-19 pandemic, and policies that can pave the way to decent work for homeworkers, both old and new.

Platform work and the employment relationship

31 March 2021

This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198). It finds that this Recommendation provides for a valuable compass to navigate the issues that emerge from the analysis of the existing case law and legislation about platform work.
Homeworking in the Philippines: Bad job ? Good job ?

09 March 2021

This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to their clients or employers via telecommunications technologies and digital platforms.

Home-based Workers in the World: A Statistical Profile

19 February 2021

Globally, 260 million women and men are employed in home-based work, including 35 million in developed countries.
Online digital labour platforms in China: Working conditions, policy issues and prospects

02 February 2021

This paper summarizes the results of an ILO survey, conducted in 2019, of workers’ characteristics and working conditions on three major digital labour platforms in China.

Home-based work and homework in Ghana: An exploration

22 January 2021

This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana.
Working from home: From invisibility to decent work

13 January 2021

With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world’s workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades.

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