Domestic workers stare at uncertainty; await employers' call to begin work

While a few individual households have opened their gates to domestic workers, many of the societies/ apartments/ localities are yet to stop being sceptical about them in reality

Although there are relaxations in Covid-19 lockdown guidelines, the plight of domestic workers continue to be one fraught with anxiety, with most of them losing their jobs and an uncertain future ahead.

Since March, most domestic workers were instructed by employers not to come to work following lockdown. Many domestic helps in national capital say they have faced a 100 per cent salary cut while the luckier ones received half of their total salary.

Minu Naskar, 39, says only two of the five houses she worked in Noida are paying her full salary.