Home Work Convention
{{Short description|International Labour Organization Convention}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox International Labour Organization convention
|code= C177
|name= Home Work Convention, 1996
|adopt= June 22, 1996
|force= April 22, 2000
|classify= Conditions of employment
|subject= Specific Categories of Workers
|prev= Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995
|next= Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996
|shelved=
}}
Home Work Convention, created in 1996, is an International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention, which came into force in 2000. It offers protection to workers who are employed in their own homes.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
Overview
It was established in 1996, with the preamble stating:
{{blockquote|Noting that the particular conditions characterizing home work make it desirable to improve the application of those Conventions and Recommendations to homeworkers, and to supplement them by standards which take into account the special characteristics of home work}}
The Convention provides protection for home workers, giving them equal rights with regard to workplace health and safety, social security rights, access to training, remuneration, minimum age of employment, maternity protection, and other rights.{{cite book|last=Kinnear|first=Karen L.|title=Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=9781598844252|pages=184}}
Objectives of the Home Work Convention
The term home work means remote work done by a person in a place other than the workplace of the employer. The term employer describes a person, who, either directly or through an intermediary, provides home work in pursuance of his or her business.
Each member of the Convention aims the continuous improving the situation of homeworkers. The intention of the convention is to strengthen the principle of equal treatment, in particular to guarantee the establishment of the rights of homeworkers.
In addition, the convention has the specific purpose of protecting against discrimination in the following areas of employment: occupational safety, remuneration, social security protection, access to training, minimum age for taking up employment and maternity benefits.{{Cite web |title=C177 - Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177) |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/Data/C177%20-%20Home%20Work%20Convention,%201996%20(No.%20177).pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602183947/https://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/Data/C177%20-%20Home%20Work%20Convention,%201996%20(No.%20177).pdf |archive-date=2 June 2022 |access-date=14 March 2023 |website=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics}}
Safety and health at work
Ratifications
The convention has been ratified by 13 countries as of 2024:{{cite web|title=Convention No. C177|publisher=International Labour Organization|url=http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/ratifce.pl?C177|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802090735/http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/ratifce.pl?C177|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 2, 2012|accessdate=May 12, 2012}}
| class="wikitable"
!Country !Date !Status |
| Albania
|24 Jul 2002 |In Force |
| Antigua and Barbuda
|28 Jul 2021 |In Force |
| Argentina
|31 Jul 2006 |In Force |
| Belgium
|02 Oct 2012 |In Force |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina
|18 Jan 2010 |In Force |
| Bulgaria
|17 Jul 2009 |In Force |
| Finland
|17 Jun 1998 |In Force |
| Ireland
|22 Apr 1999 |In Force |
| Netherlands
|31 Oct 2002 |In Force |
| North Macedonia
|03 Oct 2012 |In Force |
| Slovenia
|14 Apr 2021 |In Force |
| Spain
|25 May 2022 |In Force |
| Tajikistan
|29 May 2012 |In Force |
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{note|ILO}} - ILO [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20040113043852/http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm Convention C177]
External links
- [http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO:12100:P12100_INSTRUMENT_ID:312322:NO Text].
- [http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300:P11300_INSTRUMENT_ID:312322 Ratifications].
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