The Government of the Canary Islands has today formalized the establishment of the Technical Table for Domestic Workers, which is being created for the first time in the archipelago as a result of Royal Decree 893/2024. This body is born with the objective of comprehensively addressing the reality of a sector in preventive matters that, according to Obecan data, presents a female presence that reaches 93.4% of affiliation.
During the constitutive session, presided over by the Deputy Minister of Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, Isabel León, also present were the Director General of Labor, José Ramón Rodríguez; the Director of the Canary Institute for Labor Safety (Icasel), Elirerto Galván, and representatives of the CCE and the CEOE, as well as the trade unions CCOO and UGT and the Inspection of Labor.
In this first meeting, the accident data for 2025 was analyzed, which for the domestic workers sector closed with no registered occupational diseases and a total of thirty-nine minor work accidents, nine of them during the commute to or from work.
Even though they are reduced figures, the Deputy Minister of Employment, Isabel León, underlined the importance of focusing attention on the work carried out by domestic workers given the challenges that it still represents. On the one hand, it is a sector with a significant female presence, as the data show: in January 2025, 90.4% of the contracts were made to women. Furthermore, 86.9% of the employers were also women.
On the other hand, it is a sector where the employer figure is mostly the family. In fact, the majority of contracts formalized in the Canary Islands are through employers with DNI (natural persons) compared to contracts through companies, which represent the smaller percentage.
The Technical Committee established as priority topics with the Ministry of Labor the definition of the technical guide for the evaluation of preventive measures in domestic employment by the INSST and health surveillance. In addition, from ICASEL, the holding of four informative sessions on the use of the PREVENCION10 tool was reported. These were held in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote, and La Palma.
Work will also be done to enhance the specific portal for domestic workers available on the ICASEL website.
