Essential yet excluded: COVID‐19 and the decent work deficit among domestic workers in Brazil.

The article focuses on analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic workers in Brazil, and it highlights the issues such as loss of employment, occupational health and safety risks, and violations of labor and human rights. It reports that the pandemic exacerbated existing social inequalities and legal exclusions, leading to widespread vulnerabilities among domestic workers, and it emphasizes the need to address the deficit of decent work to prevent similar crises in the future.