By LiCAS.News
Only 6 percent of domestic workers worldwide have access to comprehensive social protection, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
This leaves 94 percent lacking access to the full range of protections, covering medical care, sickness, unemployment, old age, employment injury, family, maternity, invalidity and survivors’ benefits.
According to the report, making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers needs a global review of policy trends, statistics and extension strategies.
It said that about half of all domestic workers have no coverage at all, with the remaining half legally covered by at least one benefit.
Even where they are legally covered, only one-in-five domestic workers are actually covered in practice because the vast majority are employed informally, the report added.
Despite their vital contribution to society, supporting households with their most personal and care needs, most of the world’s 75.6 million domestic workers face multiple barriers to enjoying legal coverage and effective access to social security, the report explains.
They are often excluded from national social security legislation.
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