Domestic Workers

Unprotected labour sector: Cases of abuse against domestic workers in India continue to be a reality. What does this informal sector look like and what laws are in place to protect them?

The Delhi government will soon come up with welfare schemes for nearly five lakh domestic workers in the national capital, Labour Minister Raaj Kumar Anand said on Friday. Anand made the announcement at a workshop held by the International Labour Organization to discuss bringing domestic workers' rights under the legal ambit in Delhi Addressing the workshop, Anand said the AAP government is constantly working for the welfare of labourers in Delhi. He said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal believes he is "a creator of the country's destiny." The Kejriwal government has formulated and implemented 17 welfare schemes covering education, health, safety and pension for construction workers in the capital, he said. The Delhi government will soon come up with similar welfare schemes for five lakh domestic workers in the city, he said. He said the workshop is very important for domestic workers and those who work on their behalf because through this "we are able to acknowledge the ...

Today is International Domestic Workers' Day. The sector remains unregulated, but a clutch of start-ups is trying to change that

Employers believe they pay enough, do not consider skills while setting the wage and favour "trustworthiness" over caste and religion, found a study of households in Bengaluru and Chennai

Over 400,000 gig and temporary workers were reportedly hired to meet the high demand during this year's festive season

A higher proportion of women, scheduled castes, and other backward classes enrolled as domestic workers

Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday flagged off the fieldwork of All India Survey on Domestic Workers and unveiled its instruction manual. It will cover 742 districts of 37 states in the country. "This survey will cover a database of five and a half lakh households across the country and cover all types of domestic services like cook, driver, housekeeping, tutors (for children), watchman etc. This evidence-based study will help the government in policy-making for this segment of workers," Yadav said, addressing at the launch of fieldwork of the survey. Rapid urbanisation due to expansion would lead to migration of workers and a rise in the number of domestic workers, he added. Yadav released an instruction manual with a questionnaire for the All India Survey on Domestic Workers being conducted by Labour Bureau, Chandigarh. According to the latest data on the e-Shram portal, around 8.8 per cent of the registered 8.56 crore informal sector workers fall in the category of

The 2020 lockdown and the partial state shutdowns have hurt millions of informal workers in India, with female workers bearing the brunt of the crisis

It also requires employers to pay their H-1B workers more than the American workers to ensure foreign labour is only used when absolutely necessary.

Most domestic work is informal, leaving workers vulnerable, especially in times of crisis like Covid-19

While a few individual households have opened their gates to domestic workers, many of the societies/ apartments/ localities are yet to stop being sceptical about them in reality

Indian homes have witnessed a 120% increase in domestic workers in the decade post liberalisation.

Instead of another law or policy, implement the existing ones