Migrant domestic workers 2011, para. 11
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- Upon arrival the migrants are often left stranded with high levels of debt from their migration and without legal papers and employment, rendering them vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. Even where contracts had been signed pre-departure, many migrant domestic workers are compelled to sign new contracts upon arrival, nearly always for less pay and often for different work conditions of employment and abode than had been agreed upon or promised and often in a language they do not understand, without legal counselling, and under duress.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- CMW General Comment No. 1, Migrant domestic workers (2011), para. 11.
- Paragraph number
- 11
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