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The only positive aspects of this report are that it calls for a ‘European definition of domestic work’ and a ‘clear limitation of the maximum number of hours to be worked’.
However, dealing ostensibly with domestic workers, the report, in fact, chiefly deals with the interests of those who employ them, which would not be shocking if it concerned only the category of employers, in a minority what is more, that are ‘elderly people living alone and needing domestic help’.
But the needs of this category of employers are only brought up in order to call for the introduction of measures to make ‘domestic services tax-deductible’ and to adjust ‘prices and costs to take account of individuals' financial resources’. If Parliament votes in favour of this clause, it will above all enable rich families to subsidise their expenditure on domestic services by money squeezed out of the community.
I would like to add an extra touch of cynicism: the explanatory statement makes domestic workers responsible for the fact that their employers employ them illegally.
As a result, although we are not voting against this report on account of the few basic rights which it does express, we will not be voting in favour of it either."@en1
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