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ILC110/III/(B) – Securing decent work for nursing personnel and domestic workers, key actors in the care economy
Table of contents
IV.
V.
VI.
Working time and rest periods
301
1. The principle of equal treatment between domestic workers and workers
in general in relation to working time
302
2. Normal hours of work
302
3. Overtime
(a) Limitations on overtime
(b) Overtime compensation
(c) Keeping records of hours worked
304
304
305
305
4. Periods of daily and weekly rest and breaks
(a) Daily and weekly rest
(b) Rest breaks
306
306
307
5. Night work
(a) Limitations on night work
(b) Compensation
308
308
308
6. Standby or on-call hours
308
7. Paid annual leave
310
Remuneration
311
1. Minimum wage coverage
311
2. The undervaluation of domestic work and gender inequality
315
3. Protection of wages
(a) Regular, direct and full payment in monetary form
(b) Payments in kind
(c) Wage statements
316
316
317
320
Occupational safety and health
321
1. The special nature of domestic work
321
2. Occupational safety and health protection
(a) Measures to prevent or reduce the exposure of domestic workers
to work-related hazards and risks
(b) Collecting and publishing statistics of accidents and diseases related
to domestic work
(c) Guidance, awareness-raising and training
323
VII. Statutory social security and maternity protection
324
326
327
328
1. Maternity protection for domestic workers
331
2. Challenges to ensuring social protection for domestic workers
332
3. Additional challenges to the effective protection of migrant domestic
workers
334
4. Effective coverage as the main obstacle to ensuring social protection
for domestic workers
335
5. Social protection for domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
340
VIII. The role of private employment agencies in the domestic work sector
1. What is a private employment agency?
342
342
2. The particular relevance of PEAs to domestic work
343
3. Measures to protect domestic workers from abusive practices
(a) Conditions governing the operation of PEAs that recruit
or place domestic workers
(b) Adequate investigative mechanisms and procedures
344
344
345