Q: Are domestic workers in place in many countries? ¶
A: Yes, and it is often not extensively enforced.
Q: Are domestic workers subject to serious abuses? ¶
A: Yes, and including slavery.
Q: Are domestic workers not only no longer needed but their presence can be detrimental to domestic workers of that country? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are domestic workers women and many are migrant workers? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are domestic workers motivated by different reasons and migrate to a variety of different outcomes? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are domestic workers referred to as ‘nannies’ or ‘maids? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are domestic workers live-in domestics? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are domestic workers generally excluded from many of the legal protections afforded to other classes of worker? ¶
A: Yes, and including the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act.
Q: Are domestic workers live-in workers and are under the round-the-clock control of their employers? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is a domestic worker the fact that women working in this sector are working in an area often regarded as a private sphere? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are domestic workers often forbidden to contact their families and often go months? ¶
A: Yes, and years, and even decades without seeing their families, whose lives their remittances are supporting.
Q: Are domestic workers reported including 24 deaths? ¶
A: Yes.