Hello and welcome to ETII podcast, Voices on the World of Work.

I'm your host, Bianca Luna Fabrice, and in this episode, we will be diving into domestic work,

and we have a little bit of a special episode.

We have teamed up forces with the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism and Trade Union's EFAT.

And this is a conversation between Madalena Colombia, she is head of comms at EFAT,

Od Cefallello, researcher here at the TTI, and Grace Papa, political secretary in charge of domestic work.

Welcome, Aud and Grace.

What a pleasure to be with you today.

Let's dive straight into the topic with the very first question to Grace.

So Grace, you work for effort. Can you perhaps tell us a little bit more about what effort

is and what you're doing for domestic workers?

Yes, sure. I am Grace Papa. And as you said, I am working for Effatt. Effatt is the European

Federation of Trade Unions in the food, agriculture and tourism sectors.

We are also representing domestic workers as the umbrella organization of 160 national trade unions from 37 European countries.

EFET defends the interests of more than 25 million workers in Europe.

And I am a political secretary in charge of gender equality and diversity, but also especially

responsible for the domestic work sector.

Let's turn to go out. Just have to have a little bit of background. Would

you want to give us a few facts and figures perhaps on how many domestic workers are legally

employed in this sector and what are the major challenges at the face? Yes. First of all, I think

the umbrella term that is used when we, if people want to search for stats, it's not only domestic

work, it's also personal and household service sector and people involved in this sector.

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