The Minister of Labor, Luis Miguel De Camps, stated this, clarifying that Convention 189 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) which regulates domestic work, and which the Dominican Republic ratified in 2016, recognizes the employer as a family, not as a company or a productive unit.
Among the rights that are recognized, the minister details, are the eight working hours per day, breaks, vacations, a minimum wage and inclusion in social security. And since there are so many types of contract in domestic work (it can go from a service with sleep to only one day a week), the official specified that it will be a “common agreement” between the parties.
“If a person in domestic work has x number of hours in the morning that they are not carrying out a function at that moment, because at that moment the day is suspended. It is a common agreement between the parties and we encourage this agreement to be in writing”, explained the minister.
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The official emphasized that this resolution opens a process where existing labor relations will begin to be formalized. “This does not necessarily mean that the salary should increase, because the minimum wage is not the same as the average wage in a market, it simply cannot be less than there…” he said.
To facilitate this written contract, the Ministry of Labor will be enabling a platform for the domestic contract, and “simple forms will also be created, where the minimum conditions that must be reported for greater clarity between the parties are established,” De Camps highlighted during a interview to the radio program Distrito Informativo, which is broadcast from Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning, by La Rocka, 91.7 FM.
The official pointed out that it seeks to provide social protection to some 260,000 people who are dedicated to domestic work, which will imply, first, the approval of this resolution with the improvements that citizens subscribe, through the email [email protected]. The resolution is now under public consultation.
Then will come the recognition of the minimum wage, through the National Salary Committee, and finally, the process will end in the National Social Security Council (CNSS), where the best way to facilitate the registration of workers to the security will be determined. Social.
