Domestic workers are not formal, permanent employees of households. Trying to force this fiction onto SA households threatens to wipe out many of the jobs this industry has created for countless South Africans.

If regulations are strengthened and enforced, life won’t improve for domestic workers. Rather, they will find themselves contributing to the rising unemployment rate...

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