Domestic Workers Want Labour Law Respected
December 1st, 2009 | by admin |Domestic workers in Costa Rica by way of their union, the Asociación de Trabajadoras Domesticas, are asking that the reforms to the Labour Law made earlier this year, be respected.
In June this year, legislators approved reforms to the Labour Code that guarantees domestic workers (maids) rights and placed obligations on employers to respect.
Some of the items that the domestic workers want respected are the a work day be not longer than eigth hours and to be paid overtime if required to work longer hours.
The minimum salary for “live-in” maid be not less that ¢115.435 colones monthly, plus meals and lodging. In addition, employers provide domestic workers with an insurance policy for injury at work.
The reforms to the labour law establishes these rights, but few are respected or enforced, according to the Asociación, even though the reforms establish economic sanctions against employers who do not comply.
