More often than not workers including domestic help in the country are exploited.
These are the sentiments of Wages Council Chairman Father Kevin Barr on domestic help being covered under a minimum wage which is in reaction to women's groups at an International Women's Day panel discussion, calling for house girls and cleaners to be covered under the Minimum Wage and wages to be set from $100 to $175 a week.
To people who say this amount is too much for domestic help, Barr said people should realise that exploitation of workers has existed for a number of years in the country.
Barr said about 60 percent of the workers under the Wages Council earn below the poverty line adding the Council's aim is to improve these earnings.
The Ministry for Women said they are still looking into all the issues that were brought up during International Women's Day this week and will release details next week.
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House girls pay too low-Barr
