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Jamaica Household Workers' Union
  • Home
  • Our Story
  • Benefits of Joining JHWU
  • How to Join the JHWU
  • Domestic Workers Rights
  • Laws & Domestic Workers
  • NIS & You
  • NHT & You
  • JHWU Manual for Jamaica
  • Tools & Contracts
  • Gallery
  • Contact

Benefits of Joining the Jamaica Household Workers Union

Why Join the JHWU?

  • We represent the interests of Household Workers like other workers, through advocacy, review of labour laws and setting of By-laws to protect Household Workers
  • We Educate, Sensitize and Train about Household Workers and their labour rights, regulations and obligations among others.
  • We provide training opportunities for Household Workers to achieve formal certification and also up-skill
  • We help improve work conditions e.g Issuance of employment contract, support negotiations of terms and conditions, and salary/wages
  • We help secure jobs through grievance handling, problem or dispute settlement/ representation.
  • We identify job opportunities in domestic services, connecting Household Workers with potential employers 
  • We provide 'helpline' service to assist household workers in crisis
  • We provide a support network of Household Workers 


Since our inception, the JHWU through its effective activism has secured the protection of rights of Household Workers in a variety of ways. 


We have lobbied for a fair increase in the minimum wage and will continue to do so in the future. The adoption of the ILO’s C-189 protocol by the Government of Jamaica in 2016 was an important achievement in securing decent work provisions for members of a long-abused and unrecognized profession. We will continue to fight for the respect and rights of Household Workers in Jamaica!

Jamaica Household Workers Union (JHWU)

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