{{A new law in Brazil has come into force under which employers can be fined if they fail to register their domestic workers.}}<\/p>\n
It is part of new measures to providing basic protection for some seven million domestic workers long excluded from Brazil’s stringent labour laws.<\/p>\n
Employers can now be denounced and fined several hundred dollars each time they break part of the code.<\/p>\n
Last year a constitutional amendment gave domestic workers a 44-hour week.<\/p>\n
It defined other rights as well – basic entitlements such as an eight-hour working day, the right to the minimum wage, a lunch break, social security and severance pay.<\/p>\n
{{Big impact}}<\/p>\n
Most of these changes have been implemented, but there are still challenges around the government severance fund into which employers have to pay 8% of their employee’s total salary each month.<\/p>\n
If the employee is fired without just cause, the employer has to pay a lump sum worth 40% of the pot, plus an added 10% for the government.<\/p>\n
Discussions are continuing around how many months’ pay workers will be entitled to if they are made redundant.<\/p>\n
The regulation of working hours has had a big impact.<\/p>\n
The new legislation has led to many families employing more people to do alternate shifts and some employers are doing more work themselves.<\/p>\n
But there are other factors too affecting the domestic worker labour market.<\/p>\n
{{Household appliances v maid}}<\/p>\n
The number of women choosing to go into domestic service is shrinking.<\/p>\n
This is because of better access to education and job opportunities particularly in the poor north-east of the country from where many people travelled in search of work.<\/p>\n
Domestic workers are asking for higher wages so for many in the middle class the live-in maid is no longer feasible.<\/p>\n
People are employing staff by the day and more household chores are being done by middle-class men and women who are also now buying more household appliances.<\/p>\n
Brazil has around 7m maids according to the International Labour Organisation, more than any other country in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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