Zehra Akbar, HBWWF 2016

Adopted at the International Labour Conference in 1996,  C177 mandates that all homeworkers have basic labour rights and asserts the applicability of core labour standards and other standards to all homeworkers. 

 

But more than two decades later, only 10 countries have ratified C177 and too few workers have realized their rights. Now, home-based workers and their organizations and allies have created a global campaign of action.

C177 on Home Work calls for these workers
to have the rights of other wage workers, such as:

  • fair remuneration;
  • social protection, including occupational health and safety regulations and maternity benefits;
  • the right to organize;
  • freedom from discrimination
Such changes would lead to recognition of homeworkers as wage workers. To increase the visibility of these workers, C177 also calls for the inclusion of homeworkers in national labour statistics.  See more: https://www.wiego.org/C177