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DESCRIPTION:Seminar with Gabriela Medici\, PhD Candidate\, University of Zu
 rich\; Graduate Research Trainee at the Labour Law and Development Researc
 h Laboratory\, şÚÁĎÉç Faculty of Law. Part of the Labour\, Migr
 ation and Development Seminar Series\, presented by the Hans & Tamar Oppen
 heimer Chair in Public International Law and the Labour Law & Development 
 Research Laboratory.\nAbstract\nThe European Union’s extension of free mov
 ement to Switzerland has led to an increasing number of Eastern European w
 omen providing care for the elderly in private Swiss households. These mig
 rant care workers operate in an informal or “semi-legal” setting often ass
 ociated with precarious working and living conditions.\nThis presentation 
 will relate the growing international discourse on the impact of human rig
 hts on labour law to the current Swiss constitutional and labour regulator
 y framework for domestic workers. Over the past years\, the discourse has 
 begun to recognise core labour rights in the form of positive state obliga
 tions to regulate and implement traditional civil rights guarantees (such 
 as the right of privacy and family life\, personal and economic freedom\, 
 the prohibition of servitude and forced labour) as well as procedural guar
 antees and the prohibition of discrimination. Unlike social and economic h
 uman rights guarantees\, these rights are firmly enshrined in the Swiss co
 nstitution and in justiciable international human rights instruments – esp
 ecially in the ECHR.\nI argue that this development contributes towards un
 derstanding and counterbalancing the current legislative precariousness of
  migrant caregivers in Swiss households. I also discuss the limitations of
  using this approach to advance their protection and empowerment\, as it c
 an only address some very fundamental issues and could lead to further vic
 timization of domestic caregivers.\nGabriela Medici is a doctoral candidat
 e\, under the supervision of Professor Regina Kiener\, at the Faculty of L
 aw\, University of Zurich in Switzerland. She is currently a Graduate Rese
 arch Trainee at the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory\, McGil
 l University Faculty of Law\, under the supervision of Professor Adelle Bl
 ackett\, funded through a Mobility Fellowship of the Swiss National Scienc
 e Foundation.\n
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 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Counterbalancing the Legislative Precariousness of Domestic Carewor
 k in Switzerland through Civil Rights – Potentials & Limitations of the Hu
 man Rights-Centred Approach in the Swiss Context
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