Housework or domestic work is the work performed in the interest for one or more households. Convention No.189/2011 and Recommendation of domestic workers no.201/2011 were adopted in the framework of the 100th session of the International Labour Organization Conference. These regulations provided detailed and constructive orientations on how to regulate a category of workers who need support.

This document presents some aspects of domestic workers rights provided by Convention no. 189 and Recommendation No. 201. Thus, we will talk about the rights of domestic workers regarding salary, hours off, social protection, health and safety at work, and what are the measures which should be adopted by states which ratify this Convention.