Calls on the Member States to put in place and improve, in collaboration with social partners, information channels on the rights of domestic workers and carers and to ensure the highest information accessibility for all workers; recommends, to that end, to establish information points, following best practice in Member States, at regional and local level, helplines and websites providing assistance, information also in the form of campaigns on the rights of domestic workers and carers in each Member State in the national language and other appropriate languages; emphasises that civil society organisations such as organisations working ...[+++] on behalf of women and migrants should also be able to provide this information; points out that these tools must also be developed in a way that allows best practice, relevant advice and guidance to be given to possible employers, including families and agencies and that model employment contracts should be offered in order to ensure that employers carry out their responsibilities.

Calls on the Member States with a national minimum wage to ensure that all domestic carers and workers are paid at this rate as a minimum.

whereas domestic workers and carers who are excluded from labour laws cannot be guaranteed a safe and healthy work environment, and face significant discrimination regarding the level of rights and protection that applies to them if compared to a country’s general standards; whereas, moreover, they have no right to participate in trade unions or in collective bargaining by other means, or are unaware of or experience difficulties in how to do so, which makes them particularly vulnerable, especially because of limited social security coverage (particularly unemployment benefits, sickness and accident pay, as well as maternity leave, pare ...[+++]ntal leave and other forms of care leave), and their frequent exclusion from dismissal protection.

whereas women migrants often decide, or are brought, to seek employment as domestic workers or carers because such posts are considered as temporary with low skill requirements.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 52016IP0203 - EN - European Parliament resolution of 28 April 2016 on women domestic workers and carers in the EU (2015/2094(INI)) // P8_TA(2016)0203 // Women domestic workers and carers in the EU // European Parliament resolution of 28 April 2016 on women domestic workers and carers in the EU (2015/2094(INI))

Moreover, the level of resale right under the Directive (maximum 4%, on sales worth up to €50,000, then degressive) is not significant compared with charges levied by auction houses (buyers and sellers premiums) which can make up to a total of 25% on the sale of a work of art. When the major international auction houses increased in 1992 and 1993 their buyers premium from 10% to 15% on works up to £30,000, there was apparently no transfer of sales from the UK to other countries.