The girl picked to represent the ‘domestic help’ has the features of an adivasi, is slightly built, and dark-complexioned. Their work — cooking, cleaning, dish-washing, baby-sitting — is not recognised as work by the state. Domestic work as an economic activity is too vast and employs too many to remain unregulated. The National Platform for Domestic Workers submitted a draft bill, the Domestic Workers Regulation of Work and Social Security Bill, 2016, to the government in January. A good place to start would be to consider enacting a Domestic Workers Regulation of Work and Social Security Act.

Source: The Hindu July 14, 2017 00:56 UTC