Domestic Workers

SEWA Delhi – Advocacy Campaigns

This website has information about SEWA Delhi’s work with informal workers including construction workers, domestic workers, and street...

Lettre d’Information OBA de WIEGO novembre 2016

Une newsletter de WIEGO aux organisations de travailleurs informels basées sur leurs adhérents (OBA), novembre 2016. Read the newsletter...

An Act Governing Domestic Help and Domestic Employees

This Act makes provisions that shall apply to the employment relationship of employees who provide domestic services for their employer or...

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...

“Decent Work for Domestic Workers” Campaign

Report of the Launch of the African Domestic Workers Network

Women’s Economic Empowerment – Domestic Workers

Domestic Workers’ Leadership for EmpowermentEconomic and Employment Rights: Advancing Domestic Workers’ Leadership