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A revised draft of The Karnataka Domestic Workers’ (Social Security and Welfare) Bill was discussed successful the Cabinet on Thursday. The revised draught Bill, successful a important departure from the archetypal draught that was published successful October past year, excludes individual employers from the work of paying a interest towards the payment money of the home workers.
What does earlier draught say
According to the earlier draft, a maximum of 5% payment interest was to beryllium collected from employers, service providers and placement agencies, including platforms, for registration of home workers. In the caller draft, individual employers are not required to pay this fee. It besides makes nary notation of the percent of payment fee.
While the archetypal draught explicitly classified platforms (such arsenic Urban Company, Snabbit) arsenic employers nether the class of “service providers”, the revised mentation makes nary specified explicit mention.
Multiple omissions
The revised draft doesn’t define “decent work condition” and excludes gig workers from the explanation of home workers. It also does not specify “discrimination”.
The initial draft of the Bill prohibited employing home workers without a ceremonial statement that met the minimum labour standards and required details specified arsenic the worker’s name, quality of work, moving hours, wages, payment fee, contributions and different benefits. The revised Bill has removed this clause.
The workers volition beryllium eligible for minimum wages arsenic per the Code connected Wages 2019 and overtime payment, social security and payment schemes, but eligibility for reasonable moving hours, periods of rest and annual paid leave has been near retired from the conception that speaks astir the rights of home workers.
Fixing and revision of minimum wages payable to domestic workers, fig of enactment hours, weekly holiday and compensation for accidents oregon wounded astatine the workplace are immoderate of the different aspects omitted.
Registration
While the caller draught mandates the registration of home workers, the punishment for non-registration has been reduced to a maximum good of ₹5,000 from “imprisonment for up to 3 months and/or a good of up to ₹20,000”. Similarly, the punishment for outgo of wages beneath the minimum wage has been reduced from ₹20,000 to ₹10,000.
