The ILAW Network invites you to the launch of our report: “Mapping Domestic Work and Employment Discrimination in Africa: A Study of Global and African Regional Human Rights Norms.” This report looks at the domestic, regional and international legal frameworks regulating domestic work in nine countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Mauritius and Lesotho.
This report was inspired by the decision of the South African Constitutional Court in Mahlangu v Minister of Compensation, which found that the exclusion of domestic workers’ from workers compensation constituted indirect intersectional discrimination on the grounds of race, class and gender. This report maps similar exclusions of domestic workers from labour law protections in 9 comparative jurisdictions, and questions whether comparative constitutional frameworks might be receptive to adopting an intersectional approach to adjudicating cases of domestic workers and discrimination.
