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In few states like Kerala, the allotted minimum wages have been set comparably low and are well below the real market wages (as the role played by external migration and provision in influencing labour demand in the state). But, the state government has also embraced domestic help as members of the Kerala Artisans and Skilled Worker’s Welfare Fun, which has the significant implication of enabling them to get social security plans. This has connected the movements for league of such domestic help: the Kerala arm of the National Domestic Workers’ Movement has been catalogues in the form of a trade union in Kerala from 2008, and it has been designated to roll out labour licenses for the social safety to its members. Apparently execution remains an issue, but this helped by the efforts of unionization of such domestic workers and pertaining accumulative action, as have taken place in Kerala, Mumbai and elsewhere.
What is needed is also some kind of formalizing of the labour agreements, professionalizing the links between employer and employee, which can only be performed through a consolidation of company, act and institution –building. Another severe issue is the use of child labour in domestic chores, in paid as well unpaid nature (and even, in worst cases, as bonded or slaved labour). While the law of India prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 years in specific occupations with the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act 1986, the prohibition was only stretched to domestic work in 2006. However, there is barely any examining or effort to execute the law and experimental studies mean that the use of child labour in domestic help remains important. Few latest media reports of bad treatment of children (normally migrants from poor rural families with no independence or capability to look for redressal) involved in domestic work in middle class urban houses have spotlighted the degree to which such practices remain rampant.
The International Labour Congress in the year 2010 passed The ILO Convention on Domestic Work; however the Indian government has still not approved it. This Convention transparently mentions the fundamental right of domestic workers, and offers rules and guidelines on terms and conditions of their employment, wages, working hours, occupational security and health, social safety and the prevention of child labour.
Approval is apparently just a first step in a long procedure; however it is still anticipated to be a significant step in making sure the prestige of all domestic workers in India. The delay in simply approving such an apparently preferred convention means that there is not enough seriousness regarding the matter in official Indian policy circles. Finally, ascertaining fundamental rights for domestic workers apparently has to be dependent upon their social and political mobilization, which can influence the labour market conditions. However it also needs an important change in the behavior and attitude of their employers, who include not only the posh affluent class in India but also an increasing number of middle class beneficiaries of the economic growth procedure.
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