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Minimum wages for domestic help

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, APRIL 29. The State Government has issued a notification fixing minimum wages for domestic workers in the State on the eve of May Day.

According to an official press release, the minimum wage for domestic workers employed for washing clothes, cleaning utensils and sweeping and mopping floors for 45 minutes a day in a house with three or more residents has been fixed at Rs. 150 a month. It will go up to Rs. 200 if they are engaged for one hour.

Workers who take care of children apart from doing domestic work will be entitled to a minimum wage of Rs. 1,600 a month for an eight-hour workday. This will go up to Rs. 1,800 a month if they have to also take children to, and bring them back from, school.

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