International Labour Review , Vol. 158 (2019), No. 1 Copyright © The authors 2019 Journal compilation © International Labour Organization 2019 Innovative approaches to regulating decent work for domestic workers in Côte d’Ivoire: Labour administration and the judiciary under a general labour code Adelle BLACKETT* and Assata KONÉ-SILUÉ** Abstract. The authors offer a contextualized analysis of judicial decisions ren- dered during 1971–2013 in Côte d’Ivoire, where domestic work is regulated by a general labour code. Assessments of those decisions, alongside qualitative interviews of institutional actors, elucidate how innovative practices were mainly derived from the code by attentive inspectors and by jurisprudence evolving to treat domestic work like any other. Yet limitations emanating from the inability to grapple with the specifcity of domestic work are also identifed. Reaf frming that the regulation of domestic work must embrace its duality (work like any other and work like no other), the authors conclude with a call for an international community of learn- ing on decent work for domestic workers. * Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Devel- opment; Director, Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, email: adelle.blackett@mcgill.ca. ** Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny; Member of the High Authority for Good Governance, Abidjan, email: astakone2a@yahoo.fr. The research for this article was supported by an International Development Research Cen- tre (IDRC) Small Grant for Research Innovation. The interviews were conducted by both authors, and the article was written by the frst author in consultation with the second. The authors wish to thank the interviewees for their generosity with their time, expertise and invaluable insights. They would also like to thank Gabriela Medici; Aristide Nononsi; Claire Thompson; colleagues at the Inaugural Conference of the African Labour Centre held in Cotonou, Benin, in December 2015; colleagues at the symposium on Labour Law and Development held during the 85th annual con- gress of the Francophone Association for Knowledge (ACFAS) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in May 2017; and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. They are very grateful to Marie-Alice Remarais, Marion Rebière, Marion Sandilands and Yéfoungnigui Silué for their research assistance. Responsibility for opinions expressed in signed articles rests solely with their authors, and publication does not constitute an endorsement by the ILO.