service occupation [ caretaking staff | domestic service | domestic staff | domestic worker | security service | service staff | domestic workers(UNBIS) | service industries workers(UNBIS) ]

domestic market [ national market | National domestic market(ECLAS) ]

domestic heating system | domestic HVAC systems | domestic heating systems | domestic household heating systems

GDP at constant prices | GDP in real terms | GDP in volume | gross domestic product at constant prices | gross domestic product in real terms | gross domestic product in volume | real GDP | real gross domestic product

domestic refuse | domestic rubbish | domestic waste | household refuse | household rubbish | household waste

collecting household waste | domestic waste collecting | collect domestic waste | collecting domestic waste

Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers | Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers, 2011, of the International Labour Organisation (Convention No 189) | Domestic Workers Convention, 2011

arrange domestic services for patient | arrange in-home services for a patient | arrange domestic service for patient | arrange in-home services for patients

whereas according to ILO Convention No 189 a ‘domestic worker’ is any person engaged in domestic work within an employment relationship, whether for one or more households, but a person who performs domestic work only occasionally or sporadically and not on an occupational basis is not a domestic worker.

whereas the domestic work sector employed over 52 million people around the world in 2010, according to ILO figures, and a further 7,4 million domestic workers under the age of 15, accounting for between 5 % and 9 % of all employment in industrialised countries; whereas according to the ILO the majority of workers employed in this sector are women. accounting for 83 % of the global domestic workforce in 2010 and translating into 2,5 million in the EU, 88 % of them being women; whereas this sector is characterised by considerable feminisation; whereas domestic workers and carers contribute greatly to the gender equality targets of the ...[+++]Europe 2020 strategy by effectively providing the infrastructure enabling many families in the EU to achieve work-life balance.

whereas ILO Convention No 189 and Recommendation No 201 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers represent a historical set of international standards aimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide; whereas most domestic workers are women and the new standards set out in ILO Convention No 189 are an important step in advancing gender equality in the world of work and in ensuring equal rights for women and protection under the law; whereas, however, out of the 22 states which have ratified the Convention to date, only six are Member States (Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Portugal).

whereas according to the ILO 29,9 % of domestic workers are completely excluded from national labour legislation, and to this day the work of domestic workers and carers in the EU is very seldom and unevenly regulated in the Member States, with the result that domestic workers are often not regarded as typical or regular workers and therefore have severely limited employment rights and social protection