National and regional meetings
Convening across different parts of the country — including a meeting in Bihar on domestic workers’ rights marking Women’s Day.
Organising · Social Security
Domestic Workers’ Rights
National and regional meetings that give domestic workers and house-helps a space to discuss working conditions and the social security available to them.
Context
Why this work exists.
We hold national and regional-level meetings across different parts of the country, attended by women from various socio-economic backgrounds. These meetings create a space for domestic workers and house-helps to discuss their working conditions and other available forms of social security.
Domestic work is among the least visible forms of employment in India — carried out inside private homes, largely by women, and almost entirely outside the reach of labour inspection. Organising is often the only mechanism through which conditions become discussable at all.
How we work
What the programme actually does.
Social security awareness
Making clear which entitlements and schemes domestic workers can already claim.
Case support
Where domestic work turns into confinement or unpaid labour, the case moves into the bonded labour and anti-trafficking process.
Outcomes
What a closed case looks like.
- A forum in which domestic workers can discuss conditions collectively
- Awareness of applicable social security provisions
- A route into legal support where domestic work becomes bondage
Questions
Frequently asked.
What do these meetings cover?+
Working conditions and the forms of social security available to domestic workers. They are attended by women from a range of socio-economic backgrounds and are held both nationally and regionally.
Related
Other areas of our work.
Bonded Labour
Identification, case registration, rescue and statutory rehabilitation of workers held in debt bondage — a practice outlawed in India since 1976.
Read moreWorker’s Housing Rights
Advocacy and rehabilitation for unorganised-sector workers, migrant labourers, bonded labourers, trafficking survivors and homeless destitute labourers denied adequate housing.
Read moreGig Workers
Mobilisation, advocacy, capacity building and legal aid for platform-based workers left in regulatory limbo by India’s labour codes.
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Reports can be anonymous. Every case above began with someone deciding to speak.