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"Mr President, on behalf of my group, I would like to pay tribute to Mrs Smet for initiating the drafting of this report. What we are in fact dealing with here is the breaking of a political taboo. Because if you believe that domestic work should be recognised as an occupation in its own right, and Mrs Smet says that, and I echo her sentiments, then what you meet with in the first instance is disbelief and a lack of understanding. I shall evaluate some of these arguments.
Argument one: should domestic work actually be defined as labour? Should it feature among the labour statistics? The answer is ‘yes’, but then we
need a European definition, and the countries, the governments, will have to make more effort to get the issue of illegal work out into the open.
Argument two: are you in favour of introducing pay for housewives? The answer is ‘no’. Any one demanding this is confusing two issues. What we are discussing here is paid domestic service undertaken by third parties in private households. We talk in terms of the ‘
(cleaning/char lady) in the Netherlands, and the ‘
(same meaning) in Belgium, where they also use the word ‘
(interior attendant). How amusing.
Argument three. Regulating the work done by cleaning ladies would simply be making undeclared work all above board, and surely that would make it far too expensive? Now we have reached the heart of the matter. Domestic work is performed by the type of person who stands the least chance on the labour market. Women with an inadequate and out-of-date educational background, etc., etc. They are completely reliant on domestic work with irregular working hours and no form of legal security or social protection whatsoever.
This form of exploitation takes place because the employers, i.e. the families that the domestic helps work for, can claim complete innocence, given the lack of legislation. However, since there is going to be increased demand for domestic servants owing to social changes, it is high time we reviewed the relationship between the domestic workers, the employers and the authorities. The question as to how exactly we should go about this, requires a great deal more study and deliberation. But whatever happens, we must ensure that this type of work is established in a legal and social framework which affords those concerned recognition and social security cover, and which improves the quality of the work itself. This would also benefit the employers and so it would be quite reasonable to expect them to make a proportionate contribution to the costs involved."@en1
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