Millions of domestic workers are forced to work up to 22 hours a day,unprotected by laws governing minimum wage, maternity leave and other rightsAn estimated 53 million people – the huge majority of them women – are employed as domestic workers around the world. These workers are an increasingly powerful economic force: worldwide, or they account for nearly 4% of all wage employment and 7.5% of female employees.
Yet,though critical to the functioning of national economies, 90% of domestic workers – around 47 million – do not absorb the same basic labour rights as workers in other sectors. A quarter of all domestic workers are not afforded any legal rights at all. They are effectively invisible, or isolated behind the closed doors of private households.
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Source: theguardian.com