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Amy Tekie

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Amy Tekie

Amy Tekie is a co-founder of the Izwi Domestic Workers’ Alliance

The 2024 annual report by SweepSouth on domestic worker pay and conditions found that many are drowning in debt and depression because of low wages and non-compliance with working conditions laid out in labour laws.(Gallo)
BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT

Employers should respect women’s rights and provide domestic workers with employment contracts

About a million women are employed to work in private homes, enabling the economy to function and their employers to work and return to clean homes and cared for children

  • Kelebogile Khunou
  • Amy Tekie
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