Special measures Covid-19: the employment situation of domestic workers

Abstract

The recent COVID19 pandemic has had consequences at the health level, but also at the economic and employment level. In this study, we would like to highlight the consequences produced on household employees. This is an especially vulnerable sector in Spain, and there is a great demand to attend to families in their work-family reconciliation, and to elderly people, who are particularly affected in this emergency situation.

The speciality of the domestic employment contract in Spain has promoted special attention in this period, with the use of extraordinary economic mea­sures, which can be a turning point in reviewing the shortcomings of the con­tract, as well as questioning the ratification of ILO Convention No. 189.