Just read this. Be happy about your working conditions. Expose injustice if you see it.
An estimated, 8.5 million domestic workers are paid a pittance to mollycoddle Pakistan’s elite and upper middle class. Services include, but are not limited to cooking, cleaning, guarding and driving. Working conditions, responsibilities, pay scale, vacations, allowances, health benefits and other potential points of contention – including the recent statewide increment in minimum wage – are fluid in the absence of a contract. Ultimately, when domestic workers outnumber opportunities, the all-powerful employer reigns supreme with millions subjected to a life of thankless servitude.
Recompense that permits survival in exchange for nearly every minute of a person’s life, without any route for upward social mobility, can only be viewed as modern day slavery. Establishing equity, in any workplace cannot be left to the whims of a penny-pinching employer. The design is ripe to exact injustice.
On the other side of the fence, commanding a battery of servants, or just a poor lone soul, indolent employers have every reason to maintain the status quo and will do everything to guard their choice to oppress domestic help and pay below minimum wage.
When domestic help asks for a raise, domestic help is ‘ungrateful’. When they ask for a leave, they are ‘perpetually absent’. When accruing work is assigned to them and they are unable to cope, they are worthy of abuse. In case of theft, domestic help is the first suspect.
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