El trabajo doméstico en la normativa de la OIT

Abstract

The approval of Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 in 2011 supossed a fundamental milestone for domestic work. Both international standards have been conceived from the perspective of human rights and decent work. Domestic work has been traditionally submitted to scarce social consideration and, therefore, to a lesser protection than work in other areas of activity. Its high degree of feminization, the broad porcentaje of migrant workers, the extensive impact of private employment agencies, or its relatively huge incidence among racial minorities are circumsntances that explain the precariousness of employment in households and the vulnerability of people employed in it. Some aspects like the regulation of working time, the establishment of certain minimum remuneration guarantees, the extensión of Social Security rights, health and security at work or, generally speaking, the monitoring of the accomplishment of labour legislation constitute issues in which both international standards include prescriptions and guidelines directed to Member States.