Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 3:21:51 GMT -5
Among the most precarious and vulnerable jobs is domestic work. My grandmothers were “put in charge” (as they said in Xàtiva in the post-war period) when they were still children. One told me that she started walking and taking care of the children of a wealthy family in exchange for leftover snacks and the other that, since she was not tall enough to do her chores, they put a box for her to reach. I also remember Carme Miquel's book 'Aigua en cistella', which describes the difficult life of a worker who could be any of our grandmothers but who, although it hurts, I fear could be the life of one of our grandmothers today. In any case, they seem like stories from the past, more related to slavery. Unfortunately, there are still tremendous stories of violation of rights and abuses in this sector, as reported to us by the Hàbitat PV federation, where they serve them. In the best of cases (good conditions, legal salary [the interprofessional minimum wage, not created] and cordial treatment) their situation as workers is not comparable to the rest of the workers. They do not have the same rights, such as to receive unemployment benefits or another type of linked subsidy.
The Spanish Government has spoken in favor of its ratification but has not yet done so. Even knowing that ratification processes are expensive and slow, this cannot be delayed any longer We have been demanding the same rights for this highly feminized group (90% are women) for years, many years. In addition, there is a very high percentage of immigrant Australia Phone Number women, many of them without work permits, a situation that makes them more vulnerable. Let's look around us, see, open our eyes to a real case that our colleague Alberto Guerrero tells us: let's call her Aixa, she works in one of the developments in La Eliana, 160 hours a week. She without the right to daily rest, without being able to go out on weekends, without rest between 12-hour days and without even being registered with Social Security. With infamous treatment, insults and humiliation, but with terrifying fear, the most extreme vulnerability. Her children depend on the money she sends, how to dare to report, how to demonstrate everything that she is suffering. It is not necessary to go to these extremes, which unfortunately exist, to demand more justice and equality for this group of workers.
A very dignified and decent job, but not its conditions. We recently learned that the lawyer general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) maintained that excluding domestic workers from unemployment benefits in Spain was contrary to community law: indirect discrimination based on sex and not justified. The news arises after a Galician domestic worker submitted a request for contributions to unemployment protection to the General Treasury of Social Security (TGSS) in order to acquire the right to the corresponding benefit. However, the TGSS denied her request because Spanish law expressly excludes this possibility. This denial was taken to court and the Contentious-Administrative Court number 2 of Vigo raised a preliminary question before the CJEU to rule on whether the domestic legal system contradicts the community system and, if so, to what extent it should be modified. . The argument of the lawyer general of the CJEU dismantles one by one all the arguments put forward by the TGSS: “The exclusion in question leads to reinforcing the traditional social conception of roles, allowing, in addition, not only to exploit the position.
The Spanish Government has spoken in favor of its ratification but has not yet done so. Even knowing that ratification processes are expensive and slow, this cannot be delayed any longer We have been demanding the same rights for this highly feminized group (90% are women) for years, many years. In addition, there is a very high percentage of immigrant Australia Phone Number women, many of them without work permits, a situation that makes them more vulnerable. Let's look around us, see, open our eyes to a real case that our colleague Alberto Guerrero tells us: let's call her Aixa, she works in one of the developments in La Eliana, 160 hours a week. She without the right to daily rest, without being able to go out on weekends, without rest between 12-hour days and without even being registered with Social Security. With infamous treatment, insults and humiliation, but with terrifying fear, the most extreme vulnerability. Her children depend on the money she sends, how to dare to report, how to demonstrate everything that she is suffering. It is not necessary to go to these extremes, which unfortunately exist, to demand more justice and equality for this group of workers.
A very dignified and decent job, but not its conditions. We recently learned that the lawyer general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) maintained that excluding domestic workers from unemployment benefits in Spain was contrary to community law: indirect discrimination based on sex and not justified. The news arises after a Galician domestic worker submitted a request for contributions to unemployment protection to the General Treasury of Social Security (TGSS) in order to acquire the right to the corresponding benefit. However, the TGSS denied her request because Spanish law expressly excludes this possibility. This denial was taken to court and the Contentious-Administrative Court number 2 of Vigo raised a preliminary question before the CJEU to rule on whether the domestic legal system contradicts the community system and, if so, to what extent it should be modified. . The argument of the lawyer general of the CJEU dismantles one by one all the arguments put forward by the TGSS: “The exclusion in question leads to reinforcing the traditional social conception of roles, allowing, in addition, not only to exploit the position.