Overseas Domestic Workers

EDM number 17 in 1989-90, proposed by Graham Allen on 21/11/1989.

That this House notes with concern the plight of some overseas domestic workers brought into the United Kingdom by their employers; and calls upon the Secretary of State for the Home Department to ensure that all domestic workers from overseas are provided with a suitable immigration status which enables them to work legally and change employers whilst in the United Kingdom, and which will help to end the maltreatment and abuse of overseas domestic workers by some employers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.