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"Madam President, I very much welcome this long awaited report on the ratification of ILO Convention No 189 on domestic work. According to Eurostat data there are 2.6 million domestic workers in the EU: 89% are women and over half are migrants. Domestic work is socially and economically important but it is often precarious, undervalued and undeclared work.
A survey carried out by the Domestic Workers Action Group in Ireland in 2010 revealed a litany of abuses of domestic workers, including being paid below the minimum wage, being asked to work for long hours, being obliged work six to seven days per week, working without a written contract, non-receipt of payslips, and no PRSI or tax paid. Workers with permits were threatened by employers that their permits would be revoked and that they would be returned home.
More worrying, the Domestic Workers Action Group report that 70% of people trafficked into Ireland are for the domestic work market.
Yet domestic workers perform a very valuable social role as they can allow parents, mostly women, with the skills and qualifications needed for our economic recovery, to remain in or re-enter the workforce. Looking after older people and caring for children is a vitally important job.
If we want to achieve the employment potential of the domestic work sector then we have to transform precarious domestic jobs into decent sustainable jobs. Convention No 189 covers areas such as the abolition of child labour, protection against harassment and abuse, the right to collective bargaining, the right to information and fair terms and conditions in relation to employment, regulation of working time, minimum pay, health and safety, social security, protection of migrant workers and, indeed, putting in place dispute resolutions and complaint mechanisms.
The Convention presents an opportunity to start transforming what is too often a relationship of exploitation into a legal relationship that supports decent work. I am calling on the Member States to ratify the Convention without delay; there can be no excuse for any further delay."@en1
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