(MENAFN- Arab Times) Director of International Labor Organization (ILO) of Kuwait Thabet Al-Haroun announced the release of a detailed report by the organization concerning domestic workers throughout the world, saying there were over 52 million domestic workers in the year 2010 out of which 83 percent are women, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
Citing from the report, Al-Haroun said several domestic workers are deprived of protection and over 23 percent are not covered by the labor laws in their respective countries of abode while 45 percent among them do not enjoy weekends or annual paid leaves, adding that one-third of female domestic workers do not obtain maternity protection.
Al-Haroun indicated that the number of domestic workers increased by 19 million from the mid-1990s until the year 2010, while majority of them migrated to foreign countries.
He did not rule out the possibility that minor domestic workers under age 15 were included in the data, revealing that the ILO estimates the domestic child labor to have reached 7.4 million in 2008.
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