Becky Blab

I hope this gets properly implemented and monitored!

Come September and employers in 18 countries will have to pay a minimum wage of $250 or Rs 10,000 to hire a household service worker of Indian origin.

The norm will cover “ABCD workers” — ayahs, butlers, cooks and drivers — employed in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Libya, Jordan, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Brunei, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The eighteenth country is Iraq, and the norm will be enforced as and when India permits citizens to go and work there.

“Indians, especially women, who go abroad as unskilled workers are terribly vulnerable. They receive a pittance as salary and are at the mercy of their employers. And unlike office jobs, they are confined to their employers’ homes. So we thought it was time to bring in measures to protect them,” Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi told HT.

Indeed it is high time that these women workers recieve protection for performing the services that are not only essential to their employees, but also to the national coffers which swell as a result of the remittances these women send home to their families.

Via Hindustan Times.

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