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| Source: Global Fund For Women |
“Domestic work will be recognized as work equal to any other. We all deserve a just wage, vacation and sick days.” says Juana Flores, a domestic worker with Mujeres Unidas Activas in San Francisco.
GENEVA, (ILO News) – The government, worker and employer delegates at the 100th annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Thursday, 16 June adopted a historic set of international standards aimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide...
...Conference delegates adopted the Convention on Domestic Workers (2011) by a vote of 396 to 16, with 63 abstentions and the accompanying Recommendation by a vote of 434 to 8, with 42 abstentions. The ILO is the only tripartite organization of the UN, and each of its 183 Member States is represented by two government delegates, and one employer and one worker delegate, with an independent vote.
"History is being made"
“We are moving the standards system of the ILO into the informal economy for the first time, and this is a breakthrough of great significance,” said Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General. “History is being made.”
The two standards will be the 189th Convention and the supplementing 201st Recommendation adopted by the Labour Organization since its creation in 1919...(full text of press release below)
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