Human Rights Watch Report documenting how girls as young as 8 years old work up to 18 hours a day as domestic workers in Guinea, frequently without pay, and are often insulted, beaten and raped by their employers (2007).
Three Indonesian domestic helpers claimed that they were assaulted and abused by Law Wang Tung,a Hong Kong housewife, during their employment by Defendant between 2010 and 2014. The District Court convicted the Defendant of 19 charges assault, intimidation, and failure to provide wages, insurance and holidays during the complainants’ employment, and was sentenced for six years of imprisonment and a fine of HK$15,000.
Law 26844 expands the protections of Law 20744 (which defines the fundamental rules of the employer–employee relationship in Argentine law) to domestic workers. By explicitly applying the regime of Law 20744 where the law is silent, domestic workers are protected from the forms of discrimination to which Law 20744 applies.
