Convention C189 - Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)
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Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration: Non-binding principles and guidelines for a rights-based approach to labour migration (2006), and
Recognizing the special conditions under which domestic work is carried out that make it desirable to supplement the general standards with
standards specific to domestic workers so as to enable them to enjoy their rights fully, and
Recalling other relevant international instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime, and in particular its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children and its Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning decent work for domestic workers, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the
session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention;
adopts this sixteenth day of June of the year two thousand and eleven the following Convention, which may be cited as the Domestic Workers
Convention, 2011..
Article 1
For the purpose of this Convention:
(a) the term domestic work means work performed in or for a household or households;
(b) the term domestic worker means any person engaged in domestic work within an employment relationship;
(c) a person who performs domestic work only occasionally or sporadically and not on an occupational basis is not a domestic worker.
Article 2
1. The Convention applies to all domestic workers.
2. A Member which ratifies this Convention may, after consulting with the most representative organizations of employers and workers and, where
they exist, with organizations representative of domestic workers and those representative of employers of domestic workers, exclude wholly or partly
from its scope:
(a) categories of workers who are otherwise provided with at least equivalent protection;
(b) limited categories of workers in respect of which special problems of a substantial nature arise.
3. Each Member which avails itself of the possibility afforded in the preceding paragraph shall, in its first report on the application of the Convention
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