The Department of Employment and Labour has over the course of May conducted a number of inspections at employers operating in the domestic worker sector in Mpumalanga.
The inspections were to determine the employers’ compliance with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Sectoral Determination, including the National Minimum Wage Act.
Inspections and resulting seminars by the department come in a year in which for the first time the National Minimum Wage for domestic workers has fallen in line with other sectors. The more worrying finding from the survey is that one in five domestic workers are earning less than R1,500 a month, and two-thirds earned below 2021’s minimum wage. Only 1% reported earning more than R6,000 a month.
The report described how employers and sectional title complexes regularly impose rules that directly violate workers’ constitutional rights, including rights to privacy, freedom of movement, family life, and adequate housing. Until now, domestic workers have been excluded from these benefits – an oversight the government said has gone on for too long.
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