This free resource, located at the Casa de las Mujeres in Vitoria-Gasteiz, provides domestic and care workers with information on their labor rights and obligations, including hiring, wages, and working hours. It also offers tailored support to meet the needs of each woman, framed within feminist empowerment.
In addition to labor information, the service guides users on municipal resources, immigration procedures, management of socio-labor certificates, and study validation. Assistance is available by phone and in person on Wednesdays at the Casa de las Mujeres. In July, hours are from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM, and from September onwards, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Prior appointment is required by calling 945 16 13 14 or emailing emakumeenetxea@vitoria-gasteiz.city.
The Equality Service also organizes free training sessions for collective empowerment and learning. This year's course, 'Feminist Economy of Care and Labor Rights: Do You Do Domestic and Care Work?', will take place on September 12, 19, 26, and October 3, from 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM at the Casa de las Mujeres. Registrations are open until September 4 by calling 633 23 53 12.
The course has a total duration of 16 hours, and participants will receive a certificate of completion. On September 12, the care system and domestic work will be discussed from a feminist economy perspective; on the 19th, the Domestic Service Law, contracts, wages, working hours, holidays, and rest periods; and on the 26th, payslips, sick leave, dismissal, and severance.
On October 3, domestic and live-in care work and self-organization from a social economy perspective will be addressed. The final session, date to be confirmed, will serve as a closing event for certificate distribution.
The Equality Service also provides educational materials on the municipal website to raise awareness about the importance of domestic and care work, empower workers to recognize their value and demand dignified conditions, and offer practical tools for them to know and exercise their labor rights. Previously available materials covered labor contracts, working hours, wages, social security contributions, unemployment rights, live-in domestic work, dismissal, qualifications, payslips, residency registration, violence, and feminist economics.
As a new addition, pedagogical booklets are now available on residency nationality, the capital-life conflict, health and occupational risk prevention, residency requirements in immigration law, alternative ways of organizing work from a transformative social economy perspective, and mental health care in domestic and care work.
