We ask the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, through CS Hon. Florence Bore, the president of the Republic of Kenya, and his government to prioritize ratification of the ILO Convention 189 in Kenya.

International Labour Organization Convention 189 is the Convention concerning decent work for Domestic Workers which was adopted in Geneva, 100th ILC session on June 16th, 2011 and member countries across the world went ahead to ratify and domesticate the policy.

Convention 189 aims at recognizing the significant contribution of domestic workers to the global economy, which includes increasing paid job opportunities for women and men workers with family responsibilities, and greater scope for caring for aging populations, children, and persons with a disability.

The ratification of this convention aims at:

1. Ensure effective promotion and protection of ALL human rights of domestic workers

2. Respect, promote, and realize the fundamental principles and rights at work.

3. Each Member shall set a minimum AGE for domestic workers consistent with the provisions not lower than that established by national laws and regulations for workers generally.

4. Measures to ensure that domestic workers enjoy effective protection against all forms of abuse, harassment, and violence.

5. Ensure that domestic workers enjoy fair terms of employment as well as decent working conditions and, if they reside in the household, decent living conditions that respect their privacy.

6. Ensure that domestic workers are informed of their terms and conditions of employment in an appropriate, verifiable, and easily understandable manner and preferably, where possible, through written contracts in accordance with national laws, regulations, or collective agreements

7. Domestic workers enjoy minimum wage coverage, where such coverage exists, and remuneration is established without discrimination based on sex.

8. National laws and regulations shall require that migrant domestic workers who are recruited in one country for domestic work in another receive a written job offer, or contract of employment that is enforceable in the country in which the work is to be performed, addressing the terms and conditions of employment prior to crossing national borders for the purpose of taking up the domestic work to which the offer or contract applies.

9. Protect domestic workers, including migrant domestic workers, recruited or placed by private employment agencies, against abusive practices

10. Each Member shall ensure equal treatment between domestic workers and workers generally in relation to normal hours of work, overtime compensation, periods of daily and weekly rest, and paid annual leave in accordance with national laws, regulations, or collective agreements, taking into account the special characteristics of domestic work.

Sign this petition to call for the ratification of ILO Convention 189.