Domestic workers
Domestic work is care work, and as the world celebrates International Domestic Workers’ Day on 16 June, the anniversary of ILO Convention 189 on domestic workers, it is high time we make it decent work.
News and articles
Domestic workers
2024 Thai Regulations on Domestic Work: Are you following the law?
ILO COOP/SSE Meets with WIEGO and Global Informal Economy Worker Membership Based Organization Networks
How do domestic workers fare in your country?
ILO launches new strategy to achieve decent work for domestic workers
There is no social justice without decent work for domestic workers
Podcast: Is domestic work care work?
Policy resources by theme
Domestic Workers Convention
Publications
From Home Village to Metro City: Looking back and ahead at a labour migration corridor for domestic workers in India
Placement agencies and migrant live-in domestic workers in an Indian metro city: A view from below into the evolving practices of...
Gendering migration pathways from Bangladesh to Jordan and Lebanon: Before and after the COVID-19 pandemic
ILO's work on this topic
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What's going on in the field?
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ILO departments and programmes
Contact info
For additional information on the ILO's Domestic Work topic please contact the Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch at inwork@ilo.org