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“Protect the interests of domestic servants”

— Photo: G. Moorthy

For the right: Members of Tamil Nadu Domestic Servants Association staging a demonstration in Madurai on Friday.

MADURAI: Tamil Nadu Domestic Servants Association (TNDSA) has urged the Government to fix a minimum monthly wage of Rs.3,800 for eight hours of work a day. The demand was made during the May Day celebrations held here on Friday.

The Association also wanted the Union Government to pass a Bill in the parliament to protect the interests of domestic servants.

Providing sufficient funds for various labour welfare boards and curbing child labour were the other demands.

In a press release, TNDSA president G. Banumathi also said that the Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008 should be replaced with a new enactment that could fulfil all aspirations of the working class.

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