The plenary session of the Congress of Deputies approved the ratification of treaty 189 of the Covenant. international Labor Organization (ILO), unemployment protection that expands, inter alia, the rights of domestic workers.
continued with confirmation 341 votes in favor, no refusal and one abstention.
This agreement, which the government submitted to the Cortes a little over two months ago, ensures that domestic workers’ rights enjoy equitable and less favorable conditions. conditions applicable to other workers.
Currently, domestic workers framed under a particular Social Security regime are not entitled to unemployment benefits, as the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently ruled. discriminatory.
Parliamentary groups welcomed this approval and editor development necessary to ensure compliance.
“This is a matter of justice and dignity,” the MP said. PSOE Maria Dolores Narvaez.
In front of the Congress of Deputies, domestic workers groups and the care and feminist movement celebrated “a historic victory”.
After ratifying the convention, Spain should take measures to ensure: domestic workers, they enjoy fair working conditions and decent working conditions, like other workers in general.
It also prioritizes the written contract, determines that employees must be adequately, accurately and comprehensibly informed about the conditions of employment, and generally regulates equal treatment with the rest of the employees. break Y Celebration.
regulates the conditions. return It provides the freedom of migrant domestic workers to negotiate with the employer at the end of their contracts, their residence at the workplace, rest periods, travel and storage of identity documents.
Regarding remuneration, salary perception at least once a month, limiting the fee in kind.
necessary legislative arrangements by international standardOnce approved, it is already in process.
Second Vice President and Minister of Labor Yolanda Díaz has already suggested that after the approval, legislation will be passed to equalize the rights to work. access to unemployment benefits.
According to May data from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Immigration, the total number of people connected to this program in Spain: 378,178the vast majority are women.