Sierra Leone Domestic Workers Union

08/03/2026

Domestic workers are the backbone of our community. They care for families, cook meals, and keep homes running smoothly. But do they get the respect and fairness they deserves?

Today, on International Women's Day, we celebrate all domestic workers. We fight for rights: fair pay, safe working conditions, and dignity. We demand justice: end exploitation and abuse. We take action by stand with domestic workers, amplifying our voices to create change.

When we value care, we gain a fairer society.

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Sierra Leone Domestic Workers Union wishes all women Happy International Women's Day. We celebrate the achievement of all women, advocate for equal rights, equal opportunities and freedom from discrimination and abuse and other challenges women face.

18/12/2025

International Migrant Day

Across borders and beyond homes, migrant domestic workers carry hope, responsibility, and strength. They care for children, support the elderly, and keep households running often far from their own families.

Their labor deserves visibility, protection, and respect. No worker should face exploitation, discrimination, or silence simply because they crossed a border to survive.

Today, we call for safe migration, decent work, and equal rights for migrant domestic workers everywhere.

✨ Respect their work.
✨ Protect their rights.
✨ Recognize their humanity.

29/10/2025

October 29th is International Day of Care and Support.
Domestic Workers keep the world running. They make other work possible, they provide direct and indirect care, they care for children,elderly, including disabilities, cook, clean and handle other activities of the home. They make society function, allow other women to work outside of their homes, promotes the achievement of gender equality; yet too many still receive below minimum or living wages, face discrimination, exploitation, abuse, lack social protection and are invisible.

On this International Day of Care and Support, we say: domestic work is essential and therefore must be recognised as a real,skilled and vital labour.

We demand for Dignity and Equity in policies and laws. Domestic Workers care for you, so care for them.

05/09/2025

05/09/2025

The Sierra Leone Labour Congress in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Domestic Workers Union held a workshop on ILO Convention 189 - Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers: Moving the Agenda Forward. The initiative is funded by the European Union through the support of the Free Movement of Persons and Migration Project in West Africa, phase II in coordination with the ECOWAS Commission. Domestic Workers particularly migrants remain among the most vulnerable groups in Sierra Leone's labour market. The workshop was organised to support Sierra Leone's government and social partners in advancing ILO Convention C189 on domestic workers and to facilitate dialogue on progress, challenges and opportunities for implementing ILO C189.

30/07/2025

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons 🛑
Domestic workers and child domestic workers often suffer in silence; behind closed doors, many are trafficked, exploited, and denied their basic human rights.
Children are forced into domestic labor,
women isolated, underpaid, and abused, no contracts, no protections, and no voice.
Human trafficking has no place in any home or any country.
It’s time to hold traffickers accountable and demand safe, legal, and dignified working conditions for ALL.

Today, we 📣 raise awareness and call for a report of abuse, and we demand justice.

16/06/2025

Happy International Domestic Workers Day to all national and migrant Domestic Workers and thanks to all employers. Domestic work is work, therefore must be recognized, right upheld and respected. Calling on all government to ratify and domesticate C189.
Thanks to the government of Sierra Leone for ratifying C189 but we ask that they go a step forward to domestication; thereby making Decent Work a Reality.

06/05/2025

I feel humbled and honored to receive an award in the first ever National Labour Awards 2025; a Gender Equality Excellence Award in recognition of my efforts towards Empowering and creating Employment for Women. I thank God for the idea and thanked everyone who has contributed spiritually, financially and technically. I also thank the Ministry of Employment Labour and Social Security and Sierra Leone Labour Congress. I sincerely thank my mother who not by choice was a domestic staff but that was where she could hike her livelihood to care for her family and her self. Domestic work is perceived as a demeaning source of livelihood but it has brought meaning to me. My team and I are working tirelessly for domestic work to be recognized, respected and dignified . I salute all domestic workers globally and nationally and thank every employer.

06/05/2025

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security together with its Social Partners: The Sierra Leone Labour Congress and the Sierra Leone Employers Federation has concluded a history making, ground breaking and first ever activities in commemoration of this year's Labour day.
On the 29th April was a Social dialogue forum and the 30th was the National Labour Conference on the theme:Shaping the Future of Work. The usual labour day was celebrated and it was climaxed with a National Labour Awards. These landmark events has laid the platform for workers right to be uphelp, productivity enhancement; leading to Decent Work and Economic Growth(SDG8), and creating Industrial harmony and development.

01/05/2025

Labour day is worth celebrating, yet much is needed to be done in upholding the right of domestic workers. In this year's celebration, the Sierra Leone Domestic Workers Union calls on government to Domesticate Convention 189; Decent Work for Domestic Workers and Ratify and Domesticate Convention 190; Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work.

08/03/2025

The Women's Committe of the Sierra Leone Labour Congress which the Sierra Leone Domestic Workers Union is part of, joined the world to commemorate the International Women's Day on the theme: All Women and Girls: Right, Equality and Empowerment in the World of Work.
Women's work should be recognized particularly for those in the informal economy and the workplace should be free from violence and harassment, so women can thrive and contribute meaningfully to the economy. To accelerate action for Gender Equality, women should be empowered and opportunities are to be provided. It is also a time to celebrate the government for the enactment of Laws and the Ratification of Conventions that promotes Gender Equality but we ask government to implement and domesticate these and also Ratify especially Convention190 (C190).

31/01/2025

A two day training was held on Organizing and Collective Bargaining for Women Workers in Sierra Leone with support from the Solidarity Center. The goal of the training is to develop the capacity of Unions to recruit new members, advocate more inclusively on behalf of women and marginalized workers to significantly reduce the exploitation of domestic workers in the workforce. Key personalities in attendance were: Mr Francis Chibblie; Acting Commissioner from the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Security, Mr Emmanuel Kamara; Deputy Secretary General, Mr Emnanuel Kamara; Education Director and Ms Gladys Branche; Women's Cordinator from the Sierra Leone Labour Congress. They pledged their commitment to making Decent Work a reality for Domestic Workers. The domestic workers discussed on their labour abuses and their capacity was strengthen on organizing, gender mainstreaming in union, understanding the position of women and power relation, collective bargaining etc. The training is timely as it will help increase our membership and strengthen us to engage government and employers with support from our workers body ; the Sierra Leone Labour Congress. We will also continue to engage our social partners for the Domestication of C189 and Ratification of C190.

Thanks to the Solidarity Center and our Social partners.