Research Paper
Year: 2018 | Month: October | Volume: 5 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 265-278
Legal Protection for Household Workers: Efforts in Law Enforcement
Ida Hanifah, Tan Kamello
Faculty of Law, University of Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Ida Hanifah
ABSTRACT
Working as household workers is considered an informal profession so their rights always become neglected. Facts indicate that domestic workers get improper wages, obtain less health protection, have little rest periods, and loose leave rights (entitlements). Not to mention the various forms of discrimination, the violence, torture and sexual abuse were experienced by domestic workers, causing psychological impact for them. Such facts are exacerbated because to this day the government and the legislature have not been able to make specific rules for domestic workers as legal protection. Whereas the ILO has laid a very good foundation for the protection of the rights of domestic workers. Based on that, it is highly feasible that the government is immediately possible to ratify the ILO Convention to realize the workers’ human rights in Indonesia. This research is descriptive with a normative juridical approach. The sources of data were secondary and the data collection tool was carried through documents. The results show the absence of legislation that specifically addresses the rights and obligations of domestic workers provides a very open space for the emergence of discrimination against domestic workers.
Key words: legal protection, domestic workers, human rights.
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