{"id":216683,"date":"2022-07-18T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=216683"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:06:39","slug":"hundreds-of-millions-of-human-workers-treated-worse-than-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/07\/hundreds-of-millions-of-human-workers-treated-worse-than-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

14 Jul 2022 – <\/em>While the world\u2019s big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines and assuring their optimal functioning, barely no money has been invested in the hundreds of millions of human workers, who are left shockingly unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Teenage girls harvest tomatoes on a farm in the state of Sinaloa, in northern Mexico. <\/strong><\/em>
\nCourtesy of Instituto Sinaloense para la Educaci\u00f3n de los Adultos (Sinaloa Institute for Adult Education)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For example, of all domestic workers worldwide -overwhelmingly women- up to 94% lack access to the full range of protections, covering medical care, sickness, unemployment, old age, employment injury, family, maternity, invalidity and survivors\u2019 benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that only 6% of their total number \u2013estimated at over 75 million worldwide\u2013 have access to comprehensive social protection.<\/p>\n

In its mid-June 2022 report: Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers<\/a>, the International Labour Organization (ILO<\/a>) also informs that about half of all domestic workers have no coverage at all, with the remaining half legally covered by at least one benefit.<\/p>\n

The extension of effective coverage has lagged significantly behind that of legal coverage ILO explains. Only one-in-five domestic workers are actually covered in practice because the vast majority are employed informally.<\/p>\n

Despite their vital contribution to society, supporting households with their most personal and care needs, most of the world\u2019s 75,6 million domestic workers face multiple barriers to enjoying legal coverage and effective access to social security, the report explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are often excluded from national social security legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 60% of the world\u2019s adult labour force \u2013or about 2 billion workers\u2013 work in the informal economy. They are not recognised, registered, regulated or protected under labour legislation and social protection. The consequences can be severe, for individuals, families as well as economies<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Women, three-quarters of all<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

As 76.2% of domestic workers (57.7 million people) are women, such social protection gaps leave them particularly vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Most of them do not have access to social insurance schemes benefits related to unemployment or employment injury, also according to the world\u2019s main labour body.<\/p>\n

No protection in the Americas, Arab region, Asia, Africa<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The report also highlights major differences between regions.<\/p>\n