Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2018, published 108th ILC session (2019)

Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) - Portugal (Ratification: 2015)

The Committee notes that the Government’s first report on the application of the Convention has not been received. In this regard, it notes that, on 1 September 2017, the Government informed the Office that following its ratification of the Convention on 17 July 2015, it had decided to undertake a study to review the existing legislative framework in relation to domestic work, referring in particular to Decree-Law No. 235/92 of 24 October 1992 on the employment relationship arising from the domestic work contract. The Government indicated that it would submit its first report to the ILO following the conclusion of this review. Noting that the Government has not to date provided its first report, the Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to expedite its review and provide its first report to the Committee of Experts at its next session.