{"id":2307,"date":"2026-10-23T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/humanrightsanddemocracyforumblog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:03:29","slug":"human-rights-and-the-protection-of-domestic-workers-in-labour-and-migration-law-by-natalie-sedacca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/humanrightsanddemocracyforumblog\/2026\/10\/23\/human-rights-and-the-protection-of-domestic-workers-in-labour-and-migration-law-by-natalie-sedacca\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law, by Natalie Sedacca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My book \u2018Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law\u2019 has just been published by Oxford University Press <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/book\/63215\">online<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/human-rights-and-the-protection-of-domestic-workers-in-labour-and-migration-law-9780198985235?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\">hard copy<\/a>. The book uses a feminist framework to examine the ways in which domestic workers &#8211; who are overwhelmingly women, and often ethnic minorities and international migrants &#8211; are excluded from protections at work, and analyses the relevance of human rights to challenging this exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Five core themes in labour rights and migration regimes &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is focused on five main themes regarding domestic workers\u2019 treatment. The first is the exclusion of the private homes where they carry out their work from labour inspection and enforcement, resulting in risks to workers\u2019 health and safety and a lack of scrutiny of abuses. Secondly, it examines the devaluation of domestic work, including the way domestic workers are portrayed as akin to family members and their exclusion from minimum wage frameworks on this basis. Thirdly, it considers the excessive hours domestic workers are often required to work, particularly when living in their employers\u2019 homes, either because of exclusion from legal limitations or a lack of enforcement of applicable standards. The final two issues relate to migration and domestic work, including how restrictive visa regimes can limit labour mobility between employers and risk migrant workers becoming irregular (lacking legal status), which in turn leads to even more restrictions in their ability to access labour rights. Finally, the book examines how migrant domestic workers are often precluded from \u2018family reunification\u2019 &#8211; namely bringing family members to join them in their destination countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Case studies: Chile, the UK, South Africa, and India<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book considerably develops my PhD research completed between 2017 and 2021 at University College London. In that research, I focused on two case study countries: the UK, which included undertaking research alongside the migrant domestic worker NGO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalayaan.org.uk\/\">Kalayaan<\/a>, and Chile, which I visited for two months in 2019, interviewing domestic workers and other experts such as union and NGO staff and researchers. In the process of writing the monograph, I made numerous changes, the most significant of which was adding two case study countries &#8211; India and South Africa &#8211; and conducting online interviews with professionals in both in late 2024. In this work, as in previous research, I found the process of speaking to people with first-hand knowledge of the law\u2019s impact, and informed opinions on how it should change based on this, to be very valuable and illuminating. The book therefore reaches across four key continents, and includes two case study countries &#8211; Chile and South Africa &#8211; that have ratified the main International Labour Organisation convention on domestic work (<a href=\"https:\/\/normlex.ilo.org\/dyn\/nrmlx_en\/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_INSTRUMENT_ID%2CP12100_LANG_CODE:2551460%2Cen\">Convention 189<\/a>) and made significant legislative reforms aimed at improving the rights of this sector. The other two countries, the UK and India, have not ratified Convention 189 and have made more limited progress. The UK continues to exempt domestic workers from rights such as weekly limits on working time that apply to other workers, and India also lacks a comprehensive legislative framework at national level, although certain states such as <a href=\"https:\/\/idwfed.org\/publications\/social-protection\/domestic-workers-and-social-protection-in-tamil-nadu-chennai\/\">Tamil Nadu<\/a> have introduced legislation to protect domestic workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bringing labour and human rights law closer together<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book intervenes in a longstanding debate in labour law<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> by making a distinctive, positive case for the role of human rights law in progressing domestic workers\u2019 rights. It argues that human rights and labour law have shared characteristics, since both are fundamentally directed towards addressing abuses and imbalances of power and inequalities. I address some criticisms that sceptics of the value of human rights in the labour law field have made, such as the view that human right are too individualistic for the more collective and solidaristic labour law field, or that they are legalistic and de-prioritise workers\u2019 agency. The value of universality is highlighted as a means to extend protections to domestic workers, who are often excluded from labour law protection because of their work\u2019s association with the \u2018private sphere\u2019 of the home and family. In addition, I examine intersectional approaches as a way to resolve tensions between universality and particularism. The book advocates an approach to human rights that is informed by a feminist critique of the divide between public and private spheres<a href=\"#_ftn2\" id=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> and centres positive obligations on the state to regulate the actions of private entities like employers. The approach is also based on giving proper weight to social and economic as well as to civil and political rights, and holds to universalistic principles on the rights of migrants and other marginalised groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the thematic chapters, I explore ways in which a human-rights based framework can lead to a more progressive understanding of domestic workers\u2019 rights. For example, I set out how the socio-economic right to work calls into questions restrictions on migrant domestic workers changing employer and creates a need for proper enforcement of rights including in private households. I discuss its implications for a fair and living wage for domestic workers, which should be read through a feminist lens in order that their contributions are properly recognised. I also examine how the right to a private and family life supports proper limitations on working time that allow domestic workers sufficient time to themselves, away from the household they work for, and calls into question legal and practical barriers that migrant domestic workers experience in relation to family reunification. Furthermore, I argue that the employer\u2019s right to private and family life is a relevant consideration, but that it should not entirely preclude inspections. Drawing on the normative critiques and empirical findings, I make the case for reform of labour and migration law to provide specialist and targeted forms of protection for domestic workers. The proposals include an extension of inspection into the domestic sphere with specified constraints to protect the employer\u2019s privacy, improved protection for working time based on respect for domestic workers&#8217; private and family lives, a modification of visa regimes, and a separation between employment regulation and immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/laws\/events\/2026\/nov\/book-launch-human-rights-and-protection-domestic-workers-labour-and-migration-law\">launch event<\/a> will take place on 4 November at 6pm at UCL, and there will also be an online launch at 12pm on 4 December, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/66b5334305d77f1a5d3c0f3a\/t\/6a8c172e8aaf055d2e1b390a\/1787565870336\/2026Fall+Seminars.pdf\">series<\/a> \u2018Conversations on Social Reproduction\u2019 hosted by King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durham.ac.uk\/staff\/natalie-m-sedacca\/\">Dr Natalie Sedacca<\/a> is Associate Professor in Employment Law at Durham Law School. Her research focuses on human rights and labour law, with a particular interest in domestic workers and other marginalised workers, and in issues of gender and migration.&nbsp;Natalie is also a trustee for the migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan, a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Feminist Legal Studies, and a co-editor of the UK Labour Law Blog.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this Blog, read: \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/humanrightsanddemocracyforumblog\/2025\/03\/25\/new-immigration-raids-the-hostile-environment-and-migrant-womens-human-rights-by-natalie-sedacca\/\">New immigration raids, the hostile environment, and migrant women\u2019s human rights<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> See e.g. Virginia A Leary, \u2018The Paradox of Workers\u2019 Rights as Human Rights\u2019 in Lance A Compa and Stephen F Diamond (eds), <em>Human rights, labor rights, and international trade<\/em> (University of Pennsylvania Press 1996); Kevin Kolben, \u2018Labor Rights as Human Rights?\u2019 (2009) 50 Virginia Journal of International Law 449; Colin F Fenwick and Tonia Novitz (eds), <em>Human Rights at Work: Perspectives on Law and Regulation<\/em> (Hart 2010); Virginia Mantouvalou, \u2018Are Labour Rights Human Rights?\u2019 (2012) 3 European Labour Law Journal 151 &lt;https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/201395251200300204&gt;; George Caffentzis, \u2018\u201cWorkers\u2019 Rights Are Human Rights\u201d: The Scope and Limits of a Precarious Wageworker\u2019s Strategy\u2019 (2016) 19 WorkingUSA 25 &lt;https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/wusa.12225&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> See e.g. Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright, \u2018Feminist Approaches to International Law\u2019 (1991) 85 American Journal of International Law 613; Susan B Boyd, \u2018Challenging the Public\/Private Divide: An Overview\u2019 in Susan B Boyd (ed), <em>Challenging the public\/private divide: feminism, law, and public policy<\/em> (University of Toronto Press 1997); Susan Moller Okin, \u2018Gender, the Public, and the Private\u2019 in Anne Phillips (ed), <em>Feminism and politics<\/em> (OUP 1998).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book \u2018Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law\u2019 has just been published by Oxford University Press online and in hard copy. 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