Occupational Group: Domestic Workers

Employment Relations Act, 2008

This Act seeks to amend and consolidate the law relating to trade unions, fundamental rights of workers and employers, collective bargaining,...

Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service

This final rule revises the duties that fall within the term companionship and the major effect is that more domestic service workers will...

How human traffickers trap women into domestic servitude

More than three million women are forced into servitude as domestic workers every year, often lured to other countries in the Persian Gulf...

Balsewa Benefits: SEWA’s Innovative Child Care Centres and Workers

The Balsewa child care centre model was initiated by the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union in India, to fill a gap...

Domestic Household Workers Demand Respect and Rights: RUSSIAN

Marcelina Bautista: IDWN Latin American Regional Coordinator and General Secretary of CONLACTRAHO [Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Domestic Workers]

Women’s Economic Empowerment: Voice for Domestic Workers

Lettre d’Information OBA de WIEGO avril 2012

Decent work for domestic workers in Asia and the Pacific: Manual for Trainers

This manual is for trainers to use with organizations of domestic workers and others such as organizations on human rights, migrant workers...

SEWA Newsletter No. 43

Contents:           Crux from the speech given by Ilaben Bhat at Georgetown University USA     Land Acquisition Problems of Urban Poor    ...

The ILO calls for tough legal protection for domestic workers

This report includes a live interview with Martin Oelz.