Services platform Sweepsouth has published its latest Domestic Worker Survey for 2024, showing that emigration patterns are still hitting employees hard.
A new report indicates that a fifth of domestic workers have lost their jobs over the last year – a significant portion due to their employers semigrating or emigrating.
There was a slight drop in the percentage who lost their jobs because their employer moved home, although still a significant increase over the previous year , SweepSouth noted. One positive, is the job losses due to emigration are slightly lower than in 2023, where 60% of job losses were attributed to emigration, but the numbers are still high.
In 2000, there were a total of 501,600 South African citizens residing abroad. In 2005, this increased to 550,462 and only continued to jump from there: 743,807 in 2010; 786,554 in 2015; and finally, in 2020, the number reached 914,901. The pressure domestic workers face from households being unable to hire them is clearly visible in the latest data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, which shows that domestic worker jobs are also in decline.
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