Trabalho no domicilio, trabalho doméstico e trabalhos de cuidado no ordenamento jurídico português: primeira leitura à luz das Convenções da OIT

The present study analyses the situation of domestic work, home work and care work in Portugal, starting from the respective sociological configuration – which characterizes them as highly feminine, informal, low paid and precarious forms of work – to analyses the respective legal regime in the light of ILO Conventions. Although Portugal has ratified ILO Convention No. 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, compliance with it is not fully ensured, and a revision of the national legal regime dating from 1992, and therefore obsolete, is urgently needed. On the other hand the Portuguese State has not ratified Convention No. 177 on Home Work, which is explicable since national regulation thereon, although much more recent than the one regulating domestic work, does not ensure, in several areas, the minimum protection in Portuguese legal system, although in the las year parliamentary debates were intensified with a view to regulating the status of the informal caregiver.