Migrant domestic workers 2011, para. 19

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Labour law. In many countries, domestic workers are not legally recognized as "workers" entitled to labour protection. A number of premises and special definitions are used to exclude domestic workers from the protection of labour laws, including the consideration that they work for private persons, who are not considered to be "employers". Equally, traditional perceptions of domestic work as tasks associated with unpaid work in the home performed by women and girls as well as traditional perceptions of domestic workers as either being "family helpers" often militate against the extension of national labour law to effectively cover domestic work. Because of their de facto and/or de jure, "unrecognized" status as "workers", domestic workers are unable to exercise the rights and freedoms granted by labour law to other workers.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Committee on Migrant Workers
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Means of adoption
N.A.
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2011
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CMW General Comment No. 1, Migrant domestic workers (2011), para. 19.
Paragraph number
19