Traduction de «employé de maison » (Français → Anglais) :

whereas domestic workers are often asked to work excessive hours and 45 % of them are not entitled to weekly leave or paid annual leave ; whereas live-in domestic workers and carers especially have responsibilities and tasks that do not allow them to take adequate consecutive rest time.

However, the EU legislator seems to have intended that the concept of domestic servants be interpreted narrowly, so not all domestic servants under the Convention are excluded from the scope of the EU health and safety at work acquis.

O. whereas most domestic workers performing duties such as domestic care, cleaning and catering are women; whereas in industrialised countries domestic work accounts for between 5 and 9% of all employment, whereas such work is mostly precarious, undervalued and informal, and whereas domestic workers' vulnerability means they are often discriminated against and can easily be subjected to unequal, unfair or abusive treatment,

O. whereas most domestic workers performing duties such as domestic care, cleaning and catering are women; whereas in industrialised countries domestic work accounts for between 5 and 9% of all employment, whereas such work is mostly precarious, undervalued and informal, and whereas domestic workers' vulnerability means they are often discriminated against and can easily be subjected to unequal, unfair or abusive treatment,

O. whereas most domestic workers performing duties such as domestic care, cleaning and catering are women; whereas in industrialised countries domestic work accounts for between 5 and 9% of all employment, whereas such work is mostly precarious, undervalued and informal, and whereas domestic workers’ vulnerability means they are often discriminated against and can easily be subjected to unequal, unfair or abusive treatment,

P. condemning the practice of certain Member States of allowing third-country nationals to enter their countries as 'domestic servants' of either their own citizens or of legally resident wealthy third-country nationals, outside the normal requirements of immigration regulations, but without affording them proper legal status and protection; recognizing that many such third-country nationals experience serious abuse, denial of human rights, very low wages and unacceptable conditions of employment because if they report their suffering they could be dismissed by their employer, who often holds their passport; whereas domestic servants i ...[+++]n this situation then face deportation since they have no legal right to remain other than as servants of the person who initially applied for their entry,