Tanzania: Need to Improve Domestic Workers' Remunerations

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.

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