Hundreds of thousands of domestic workers in Egypt complain of a number of accumulated problems, including mainly their marginalization and deprivation of the legislative and social protection.
This issue was the focus of a seminar organized by the Permanent Conference of Working Women in cooperation with the Center for Trade Union & Workers, last week at the latter’s headquarters, in Luxor.
During the meeting, they discussed how to provide legal protection to domestic workers, as excluded from the labour law under Article 4 (2) and the continuation of this exclusion in the current Labour Law bill.
The participants in the panel recommended the necessity of providing the precise definition of domestic work and domestic workers, in line with the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers 189 and to protect childhood, in line with the Labour Law 12 of 2003 and the Labour Law bill, currently under discussion.
It is also necessary to specify the working hours as stipulated by the Labour Law 12 of 2003 and to determine the vacations, which include the worker's maternity leave, the regulation of supervision and the granting of licensing conditions for the operating offices.
It is also necessary to identify the occupational hazards, including work accidents and diseases and how to protect them, as well as to determine the required mechanisms to insure the worker through the social insurance system, as well as the appropriate penalties for violating the contract terms and how to implement them, to establish at a final stage a union that would represent them and protect their rights.
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