AT its 100th session in June 2012, the International Labour Conference adopted the convention concerning decent work for domestic workers and recommendation supplementing it.
The new instruments also referred to as the Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189) and Recommendation (No. 201). According to Labour Commissioner in the Ministry of Labour and Employment Mr Saul Kinemela, the convention is a strong recognition of the economic and social value of domestic work and a call for action to address the existing exclusions of domestic workers from labour and social protection.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article