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	Migration Information Source - Domestic Workers: Little Protection for the Underpaid
		Domestic workers, the majority of whom are women, constitute a large portion of today's migrant worker population.
		Domestic workers and their families often incurred huge debts (in many instances unjustified) with the intermediaries and had to work for long periods of time without a salary to cover these costs and fees.
		Domestic workers often need some reliable and effective institutions to turn to, other than the sponsor or the recruitment agent, who are frequently the source of their problems.
	www.migrationinformation.org /Feature/display.cfm?ID=300 (2629 words)

	Center for Global Justice
		While the documented history of unionism amongst domestic workers is limited, especially in terms of geographical and historical scope, it does reveal that, far from being resistant to organisation, and especially unionisation, domestic workers have organised on the basis of their worker status to form unions.
		A large amount of domestic worker organising in Asian receiving countries is concentrated in Hong Kong, where the large numbers of mainly Filipina migrant domestic workers are representative of an explosion of migrant workers.
		While it is important to disaggregate the different kinds of organising that currently characterises the landscape of domestic worker mobilisation, and to trace the respective consequences of different models of organising for the effective representation of workers, it is actually the simple fact of organisation in the sector that is most critical to this analysis.
	www.globaljusticecenter.org /papers2005/ally_eng.htm (6282 words)

	Break the Chain Campaign
		Although all workers, both documented and undocumented, are protected by U.S. labor laws, it is not uncommon to hear reports of domestic workers being paid 50 cents or a dollar an hour or, in some cases, not at all.
		One domestic worker was called “the creature,” another said she was forced to wear a dog collar, and yet another was forced to kneel down and kiss her employer's feet.
		Ironically, because the domestic worker is in the U.S. on an employment-based visa, the moment she runs away from her employer, she is immediately considered “out of status,” ineligible for other employment and liable for deportation.
	www.ips-dc.org /campaign/maid.htm (1437 words)

	Swept Under the Rug: Abuses against Domestic Workers Around the World: IV. Child domestic workers
		In many instances, the tasks performed by child domestic workers are inappropriate to their age and physical strength because they involve heavy lifting, exposure to toxic cleaning chemicals, or risks of burns or cuts during food preparation.
		Child domestic workers, sometimes as young as three, are often separated from their families for long periods of time and prohibited from visiting or telephoning them by employers.
		Government officials in Indonesia insisted that child domestic workers are “devotees” under the protection of the families for whom they work, exchanging their work for food and accommodation in keeping with a long-standing cultural tradition.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2006/wrd0706/4.htm (5201 words)

	Sectoral Determination 7 : Domestic Workers Sector
		(b) the domestic worker resides at the workplace or transport is available between the domestic worker’s place of residence and the workplace at the beginning and end of the domestic worker’s shift.
		The employer is required to provide the domestic worker who resides in accommodation that is situated on the premises of the employer or that is supplied by the employer, with accommodation for a period of one month, or if it is a longer period, until the contract of employment could lawfully have been terminated.
		In the event of a domestic worker being unable to return to work due to disability, the employer must investigate the nature of the disability and ascertain whether or not it is permanent or temporary.
	workinfo.com /free/Sub_for_legres/Data/BCEA/sectordeterdomestics.htm (7855 words)

	Labour and Citizens' Services, Employment Standards Branch, A Guide for Domestic Workers and Employers, Employment ...
		Domestic workers can be required to work a split shift; however, the split shift must end no later than 12 hours after it starts.
		Domestic workers are entitled to unpaid leaves of absence for any of the following reasons: pregnancy, parental, family responsibility, compassionate care, bereavement and jury duty.
		Domestic workers are entitled to a — “T4” form by the end of February setting out their earnings in the previous year.
	www.labour.gov.bc.ca /esb/domestics/brochure.htm (1903 words)

	Employment Standards Fact Sheet - Domestic Workers \| Ontario Ministry of Labour
		Domestic workers are employed directly by householders, and not by a business or agency.
		Domestic workers have the same rights under the ESA whether they work part-time or full-time, and whether they live in or out of their employer's home.
		Domestic workers may be qualified for public holidays whether they are part-time, full-time, permanent or on a defined term contract or students.
	www.labour.gov.on.ca /english/es/factsheets/fs_domestics.html (3538 words)

	Domestic Workers
		A migrant worker is a person engaged in a remunerated activity in a state of which he or she is not a national.
		Foreign domestic workers, who are brought to other countries by diplomats and corporate executives, are among the most abused and vulnerable migrant workers.
		Not considered as "workers," such domestic workers are not covered by labor protection legislation, making them easy targets for exploitation and rendering them powerless and vulnerable because of language and other cultural barriers.
	www.brandeis.edu /projects/fse/Pages/domesticworkers.html (407 words)

	Domestic Workers in Latin America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A domestic worker is defined as a person who perform services for an individual or a family in the setting of a private home.
		For domestic workers, the measurement is complicated by the presence of payment in kind as well as the lack of formal data collection systems.
		The typical profile of the domestic worker is a woman who is poor, minimally educated and having recently arrived in a big city from a rural province.
	www.zonalatina.com /Zldata112.htm (1071 words)

	Welcome to Health-e (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Many employers insist that domestic workers must be tested for HIV because of their fears that HIV can easily be transmitted in the household.
		The doctor must obtain the domestic worker's informed consent, without which, the doctor acts illegally and unethically and is liable to disciplinary and legal action.
		When a domestic worker is dismissed because of HIV status, it is doubtful that she or he would seek reinstatement.
	www.health-e.org.za /news/easy_print.php?uid=20011001 (1044 words)

	WAO: Research and Advocacy - Foreign Domestic Worker Abuse
		An analysis of the media coverage of foreign domestic worker abuse cases reveals that FDW abuse is a recurring phenomenon in Malaysian society.
		Contracts for domestic workers frequently view the worker as property of the employer to be used as the employers wishes, rather than as a professional worker hired to do a specific job.
		Foreign domestic workers are often viewed as culturally inferior, sometimes 'less than human', and not considered as deserving of the same respect and consideration given to other human beings.
	www.wao.org.my /research/fdw.htm (1525 words)

	New contract shortchanges domestic workers
		Many of these workers, who are by law excluded from Singapore's Employment Act, labor without pay for months to settle debts to employment agencies, work long hours seven days a week, and are confined to the workplace.
		Food deprivation is one of the most frequent complaints of domestic workers who have faced abuse or exploitation during employment.
		Given the imbalance of power between employers and domestic workers, the waiver is open to high risk of abuse by employers who do not provide the additional payment or who coerce the worker to sign away her right to a day of rest.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw06/060721R1.HTM (545 words)

	Domestic Workers
		May 1998 if it is for a domestic worker that has been with the family for some time, this is to confirm that they have been in your employment since that date under these terms and conditions.
		Live-in domestics workers are allowed to stay on the premises for a month (notice period) or may agree to pay for the accommodation.
		Where domestic workers work for less than 4 hours a day a minimum wage equal to 4 hours of work should be paid to the worker.
	www.problemsolvers.co.za /domestoc_workers.htm (2184 words)

	A Campaign for Basic Domestic Workers Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Domestic Workers, nannys and housekeepers, are among the most oppressed workers in the US.
		With foreign domestic workers, the workers’ legal status in the US depend on their employment in their domestic worker positions.
		Their campaign has four main goals: a standard contract for domestic workers, City Council legislation to improve employment agencies placement practices, a City Council resolution in recognizing the value of domestic workers, and raising public consciousness about domestic workers' issues.
	www.aamovement.net /immigrant_labor/domesticworkers.html (347 words)

	Domestic worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A poster featuring an illustration of a stereotypical uniformed maid A domestic worker is a servant who works within their employer's household.
		A butler is a senior domestic worker, whose duties traditionally included handling the wines of the household and some management of the other servants.
		Domestic workers perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, buying foods and drinking, accompanying the female head of the household for grocery shopping, taking the family dog for a walk, and taking care of children.
	domestic-worker.kiwiki.homeip.net (442 words)

	Demand passage of a bill of rights
		More important, Domestic Workers United and their allies are fighting to tear up, once and for all, the roots of the racist and sexist exploitation of unpaid labor for both domestic and farm work wielded against people of color in the United States since the days of slavery.
		Like other workers, domestic workers see themselves as part of an industry, with 32 percent working within the field for over 10 years and 45 percent staying with the same employer for at least two to five years.
		Until 1974, domestic workers were completely excluded, and today the Act still excludes from coverage ‘casual’ employees such as babysitters and ‘companions’ for the sick or elderly.
	www.workers.org /2006/us/domestic-workers-0608 (1690 words)

	Pamphlet and Presentation Details
		Part I. The fastest way to become familiar with the rights of all domestic workers and their legal issues is to review the Wage Order and Labor Code links on this website.
		For all domestic workers, the most important issue is their responsibilities and the time they spend working on each responsibility (ie cleaning, cooking, etc).
		If the domestic worker performs other duties for the family, including laundry, preparing meals or cleaning, and these duties take up at least 20% of the workers' schedule, then the worker must recieve overtime.
	www.angelfire.com /pro/domesticworkers/pamphlet.html (624 words)

	Domestic worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Domestic service reached its height during the Edwardian and Victorian ages in Great Britain and the Gilded Age in the United States.
		Many countries and some industries, such as cruise lines, import domestic workers from abroad, usually poorer countries, through recruitment agencies and brokers because their own nationals are no longer obliged or inclined to work in underpaid, difficult or exploitive jobs.
		In Brazil, domestic workers must be hired under a registered contract and have most of the rights of any other workers, which includes a minimum wage, limited working hours, remunerated vacancies and a remunerated day-off per week.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Domestic_worker (1032 words)

	Domestic Workers Workshop
		The workshop, which has been organized by the International Labour Organization, is attempting to identify critical issues of concern for domestic workers and measures to address them, develop a Caribbean strategy for domestic workers and outline activities and specific projects for technical cooperation to implement the strategy.
		Key topics being implemented are the legal status of domestic workers, protection, wages, terms and conditions of work, establishment or strengthening of domestic workers organizations, training, placement services and institutional support for domestic workers in the region.
		Lucia is being represented at the workshop by Marcia Lesmond - Director of Women's Affairs and Ophelia Small, a domestic worker from Bexon.
	www.stlucia.gov.lc /pr1997/domestic_workers_workshop.htm (160 words)

	Employment Coverage Thresholds
		By law, the domestic employee coverage threshold amount for 2007 shall be equal to the 1995 amount of $1,000 multiplied by the ratio of the national average wage index for 2005 to that for 1993.
		By law, the election worker coverage threshold amount for 2007 shall be equal to the 1999 amount of $1,000 multiplied by the ratio of the national average wage index for 2005 to that for 1997.
		A table of wage-indexed amounts includes both domestic employee and election worker coverage thresholds.
	www.ssa.gov /OACT/COLA/CovThresh.html (204 words)

	Domestic Workers United Summary of Proposed Domestic Workers Legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Domestic workers are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse because they work in isolation in private homes. They have for decades been barred from protection for unionizing. Create protections that acknowledge the special circumstances in which domestic workers work:
		● Health Benefits: Domestic workers, who care for the families of others, should be able to provide for the health of their own families as well. Employers should be required to provide health insurance for domestic workers.
		● Basic employment benefits: Domestic workers deserve to receive the same benefits that are common in other industries, such as paid vacation and holidays, sick and personal days, and severance pay.
	www.domesticworkersunited.org /docs/legislation.htm (353 words)

	Homeowners Insurance Policy & Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Domestic Worker
		2003) excepts domestic workers, who are not employed by the same employer for a minimum of forty hours per week, from the rule of mandatory coverage under the Workers’ Compensation Law.
		Here, the Domestic works fewer than forty hours a week for the Policyholder, and, therefore, meets the statutory exception to the rule of mandatory workers’ compensation coverage.
		In the event that the Policy does not provide workers’ compensation coverage for the Domestic, the Policyholder will have to purchase additional workers’ compensation insurance in the form of an endorsement, rider, or separate workers’ compensation insurance policy to provide the Domestic with such coverage.
	www.ins.state.ny.us /ogco2003/rg030522.htm (538 words)

	Domestic Worker Reaches Settlement with Employer
		Evelyn's case typifies the obstacles faced by migrant domestic workers employed by abusive and exploitative employers because their legal status is determined by an employer-sponsored B-1 visa that prohibits them from quitting or changing employers.
		The report, "Hidden in the Home: Abuse of Domestic Workers with Special Visas in the United States," also found, in the worst cases, domestic workers suffered physical and sexual abuse and were kept as modern-day slaves.
		She befriended another domestic worker who lived nearby and frequently called her children, but isolated in a suburb with little public transit, Evelyn had little contact with the outside world.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm?aid=1784 (1271 words)

	Rights & Responsibilities Guide - Domestic and Home Workers
		Home workers are entitled to all the rights and benefits of The Labour Standards Act including leaves, notice of work schedules, meal breaks, notice of termination and so on.
		A domestic worker is someone hired to perform work in the private residence of the employer related to the management and operation of the household (i.e.
		Live-in domestics are eligible for minimum wage for the first eight hours of work in a day.
	www.labour.gov.sk.ca /standards/guide/domestic.htm (1843 words)

	EMIRE: BELGIUM - DOMESTIC WORKER
		Within the meaning of the 1978 Contracts of Employment Act, a domestic worker is an employee who undertakes to perform, in return for pay and under the direction and control of an employer, predominantly household work of a manual nature providing for the housekeeping wants of the employer or the employer's family.
		It is therefore the actual nature of the work that distinguishes the domestic worker from the blue-collar worker: household work of a manual nature providing for the housekeeping wants of the employer or the employer's family.
		This means that kitchen staff and cleaners working for a hotel, a religious community or a company, etc. are likewise not domestic workers.
	www.eurofound.eu.int /emire/BELGIUM/DOMESTICWORKER-BE.html (200 words)

	CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT FOR DOMESTIC WORKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the event of a domestic worker/ gardener/ cleaner being unable to return to work due to disability, the employer must investigate the nature of the disability and ascertain whether or not it is permanent or temporary.
		A domestic worker/ gardener/ cleaner is entitled to a one-hour break for a meal after not more than five hours work.
		The Basic Conditions of Employment Act prohibits employment of any person under the age of 15 and it is therefore important for an employer to verify the age of the domestic worker by requesting a copy of the identity document or birth certificate.
	www.polity.org.za /govdocs/forms/labour/domestics.html (1614 words)

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