Abstract
Domestic work has come to the fore of international attention with the adoption of ILO Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 concerning Decent work for domestic workers by the International Labour Conference in 2011. It has also been the topic of a 2012 European training program of the Programme for Workers Activities of the International Training Centre of the ILO, organised in cooperation with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and funded by the EU. As part of this program, this report investigates the patterns of regulation of domestic work as well as trade unions’ activities to promote decent work in this sector across 18 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the UK)