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Innovative approaches to regulating decent work for domestic workers in Côte d'Ivoire: Labour administration and the judiciary under a general labour code

Authors: Adelle BLACKETT (Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development; Director, Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal) , Assata KONÉ‐SILUÉ (Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University Félix Houphouët‐Boigny; Member of the High Authority for Good Governance, Abidjan)

  • Innovative approaches to regulating decent work for domestic workers in Côte d'Ivoire: Labour administration and the judiciary under a general labour code

    Research Article

    Innovative approaches to regulating decent work for domestic workers in Côte d'Ivoire: Labour administration and the judiciary under a general labour code

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The authors offer a contextualized analysis of judicial decisions rendered during 1971–2013 in Côte d'Ivoire, where domestic work is regulated by a general labour code. Assessments of those decisions, alongside qualitative interviews of institutional actors, elucidate how innovative practices were mainly derived from the code by attentive inspectors and by jurisprudence evolving to treat domestic work like any other. Yet limitations emanating from the inability to grapple with the specificity of domestic work are also identified. Reaffirming that the regulation of domestic work must embrace its duality (work like any other and work like no other), the authors conclude with a call for an international community of learning on decent work for domestic workers.

Keywords: regulation, trend, domestic work, judicial decision, labour administration, decent work, Côte d'Ivoire

Rights: Copyright © The authors 2019 Journal compilation © International Labour Organization 2019

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