Claim: Zimbabwe's domestic dispute: a case of balancing legality, fairness and affordability in domestic worker wages
Fact-check: Zimbabwe's domestic dispute: a case of balancing legality, fairness and affordability in domestic worker wages - FactCheckZW
Verdict: bringing in the element of 'affording the cost of labour' , 'giving them something close to the statutory minimum wage' or 'trying to live above your means at someone's expense' would mean that anyone can pay the highest earning domestic worker usd0.34, which is the gazetted minimum. legally, anyone who can pay this, can afford a domestic worker. however, the debate is not even around the gazetted minimum wage but the usd70 that most people are paying – way above the minimum. to further frame this debate, the world bank says 43% of zimbabweans are in extreme poverty – living on less than usd1.90 a day. a domestic worker earning usd70, is on usd2.30 a day and out of the bracket of those living in extreme poverty.
Organisation: FactCheckZW
Author: Lifaqane Nare
Date published: 2024-09-18T07:09:14