Conciliation and domestic work: a challenge for the socio-labour policies of the 21st century. the decisive role of the courts of justice

Abstract

Domestic and care work is an essential component for the welfare and sustainability of society. Paradoxically, employment in the family home is perpetuated as a task for women who, regrettably, work in most cases in conditions of modern servitude; The reason is that, as it continues to be a work that lies exclusively in the private sphere of households, the public authorities have not designed adequate policies, nor earmarked sufficient resources, nor valued a service that has traditionally been Provided free of charge by women, in their homes or, in precarious conditions, in the house of others.

The objective of this work is to analyse the impact of public policies in the field of stewardship and reconciliation of family and labor interests from the perspective of the domestic worker. This isdone in response to a double vision, which structures the study in two parts: on the one hand, the position of the home employee as a key element, in the absence of public alternatives, to achieve the reconciliation of domestic and labor interests of the families and, on the other, as a beneficiary of the conciliation measures envisaged. The analysis of the positions maintained by the courts of justice, through the study of recent sentences, on a topic of vital importance as the maternity of the worker completes the analysis.