Members belonging to the Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers’ Welfare Association staged a demonstration near the Collector’s office on Monday January 23. Their demands included fixation of minimum wages for domestic workers’ based on the price hike (index), to ratify the ILO convention supplemented by the recommendation on decent work for domestic workers, to ensure national [...]
The cabinet has struck a blow for the malnourished but another neglected section without which few houses in India can run is seeking the attention of policymakers. Domestic workers, India’s exploited and faceless army largely ignored by organised labour, are at the centre of a campaign being launched in India as part of a global [...]
A parliamentary panel has recommended that domestic workers be brought under the purview of the Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010. The comprehensive legislation seeks to protect women against sexual harassment at workplace and lays down a complaint and redress mechanism. Domestic workers, who make up 30 per cent of the [...]
The Cambodian embassy in Malaysia has reported that nine migrant domestic workers have died there this year, including one on Sunday, a rights activist and an opposition parliamentarian visiting Kuala Lumpur said yesterday. After a press conference held by the Malaysian rights group Tenaganita, Moeun Tola, head of the labour program at the Community Legal [...]
A Malaysia parliamentarian has lashed out at his own government and police for their “callous approach” in failing to take proper action in response to the deaths of nine Cambodian domestic workers in their country this year. Charles Santiago, a member of the opposition Democratic Action Party, said yesterday his government and police had “totally [...]
Cambodia’s Prime Minister has placed a temporarily ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia in a bid to stop violence against workers in the female-dominated industry, according to the ABC Radio Australia News. Prime Minister Hun Sen signed the order after numerous campaigns by human rights groups, focusing on the ill-treatment of maids sent to [...]
Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that a domestic helper from the Philippines should be allowed to apply for permanent residency in the city. The case was brought by Evangeline Banao Vallejos, who has lived in Hong Kong since 1986. The ruling follows a landmark judicial review and could lead to more than 100,000 other [...]
BANGALORE: Those women who help you breathe easy during the busy morning hours will now be able to claim more benefits. The government will soon include domestic workers in the health insurance scheme it is introducing for labourers from the unorganised sectors. The scheme initially planned for labourers like construction workers will be extended to [...]
Indonesian maids overseas will soon get a pay raise if a state-sponsored agency successfully negotiates an increase in their minimum salaries with governments abroad. The National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BNP2TKI), is focusing on wages in the Asia Pacific region and Middle East, a top official said Wednesday September [...]
With news outlets scrambling to cover the latest stories about Indonesian migrant workers abroad, from a beheading in Saudi Arabia to the latest roundup of illegals in Malaysia, the well-being of local household workers is usually ignored. Experts say that maids and nannies in Jakarta face many of the same issues of abuse as workers [...]
