A Study On The Domestic Work In India: An Exploration Into The Factors Affecting The Growth Of Women

Lakshmi Sanjana.R, Faculty of Law, Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Vellore

ABSTRACT

Among all categories of the informal sector, the protection of domestic workers forms one of the biggest challenges to labour laws. The intrinsic work associated in the day to day life of a domestic worker makes them more vulnerable than other workers in the economy. They work for non-business purposes. In this manner, the work involved being in a private space with lack of proper regulation and guidelines cause the female domestic workers without basic protection.

In case of any monetary vulnerability, they are left helpless before their employers. It is, in this manner, necessary to foster an arrangement of social security that can manage the cost of satisfactory assurance to domestic workers, with less involvement of the state in the issues of the family. This paper looks to give ideas to such a plan, which is fit to the particular qualities of domestic workers in India. It perceives that dissipated and separated plans social security model proposed is a decentralized model where government managed retirement is incorporated with other significant concerns like least wages, expertise improvement, and expanding and bargaining power of domestic workers. These ideas have been made in the wake of undertaking an investigation of existing lawful arrangements for domestic workers in India and the accepted procedures from different jurisdictions that have seen relative achievement in providing social security to domestic workers.

Keywords: Domestic workers, Female workers, Social security, lack of knowledge in realization of rights, etc.