Decent Work and Domestic Workers in South Africa

Decent Work and Domestic Workers in South Africa
Author: Nicola Smit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

The majority of domestic workers in South Africa are (black African) women. As long as women do not have the freedom to make their labour market choices, it cannot be said that they are empowered. This article examines to what degree domestic workers in South Africa are afforded decent work institutionally. This paper analyses and critically evaluates how the Decent Work Agenda strategic objectives have been pursued with respect to domestic workers and to what extent they have been achieved.

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Decent Work for Domestic Workers
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2010
Genre: Foreign workers
ISBN: 9789221231035

Proposed text for discussion at the 100th session of the Conference slated for June 2011. This is to carry out the decision, made during the 99th session in June 2010, to revisit the topic for a second discussion.

Everyday Transgressions

Everyday Transgressions
Author: Adelle Blackett
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1501715763

The book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists and lay readers will appreciate Blackett's insights about law and domestic work and provocative issues such as social stratification and immigration.― Choice Adelle Blackett tells the story behind the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201 which in 2011 created the first comprehensive international standards to extend fundamental protections and rights to the millions of domestic workers laboring in other peoples' homes throughout the world. As the principal legal architect, Blackett is able to take us behind the scenes to show us how Convention No. 189 transgresses the everyday law of the household workplace to embrace domestic workers' human rights claim to be both workers like any other, and workers like no other. In doing so, she discusses the importance of understanding historical forms of invisibility, recognizes the influence of the domestic workers themselves, and weaves in poignant experiences, infusing the discussion of laws and standards with intimate examples and sophisticated analyses. Looking to the future, she ponders how international institutions such as the ILO will address labor market informality alongside national and regional law reform. Regardless of what comes next, Everyday Transgressions establishes that domestic workers' victory is a victory for the ILO and for all those who struggle for an inclusive, transnational vision of labor law, rooted in social justice.

EXPLOITED, UNDERVALUED - AND ESSENTIAL: DOMESTIC WORKERS AND THE REALISATION OF THEIR RIGHTS

EXPLOITED, UNDERVALUED - AND ESSENTIAL: DOMESTIC WORKERS AND THE REALISATION OF THEIR RIGHTS
Author: Darcy du Toit
Publisher: PULP
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN: 1920538208

Millions of domestic workers experience exploitation in the privacy of their employers’ homes; also in South Africa they are to a large extent beyond the reach of legal protection. This book sums up four years of research on ways of realising their rights. It highlights their essential role, both as care-givers and in enabling their employers to work outside the home. Against the background of the Constitution and international law it examines ways of adapting the legal framework as well as alternative mechanisms, including new forms of organisation, for translating basic rights into effective regulation.

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

Decent Work for Domestic Workers
Author: International Labour Ogranization
Publisher:
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2007
Genre: Household employees
ISBN:

Internationalt overblik over husligt arbejdes status, de ansattes rettigheder og lovgivning på området.