Promoting the ILO Home Work Convention (C177) and the Rights of Homeworkers
A Manual for Workers’ Educators and Facilitators
https://www.wiego.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/HNSA_GLI_Promoting_ILO_Convention_C177.pdf
The growth in homeworking is part of today’s economic globalisation, where
more and more of the world’s workers are employed on a casual basis.
Companies seek out workers to make their products at lower cost, by sidestepping their responsibilities as an employer. They do their best to avoid paying
for their workers’ social security such as maternity leave or pensions, for paid
holidays, for health and safety standards, for training, and so on.
C177 is an attempt to make sure that homeworkers across the world are treated
equally with other workers, and have the same rights to:
•Set up, join and take part in workers’ organisations of their own choosing
•Protection against discrimination in employment and occupation
•Occupational safety and health protection
•Pay
•Statutory social security protection
•Maternity protection
•Access to training
•Minimum working age