Domestic Workers’ Day: Challenges of daily struggle in Pare | Method

This Sunday (27/04) is celebrated by domestic workers’ day. These experts, despite the recent achievements, are called a 12 -year -old home PEC in 2025 – 2025 – still faces large challenges, especially unofficial, which is the reality of most workers in this category. The Act, which was passed in 2013, represents historical progress by equivalent to the official agreement of other workers of domestic labor. However, in Pare, this category represents half of all domestic workers in the northern region, the challenges are still deep and structured. Unofficial is a rule, and respect for rights, exclusion.

In addition to the difficulty in assuring rights, there is a challenge to break Social and cultural obstacles Who is still placed in a position of profession Reduction of value. Bias is still strong on those seeking labor rights, and Judge Larissa Kunha and TRT -8 pointed out. Most workers are afraid to go to court for fear of revenge or in the market. Even with the growth of digital information, the access of justice is still limited to many of these experts.

Life dedicated to work, without guarantees

Marilid Alves Mafra, 47, captures her story and lives thousands of shovels. It has been working as a maid for 25 years – but 15 of them without any guarantee rights.

“We had to accept what the boss wanted. It was not what it was ate,” he said.

For a decade, she cooked, cleared, beyond clothes and looked after the children without a signed wallet. In the last 10 years only vacation, 13th salary and unemployment insurance can be obtained. However, with the law enforced, the bosses refuse to adopt legal responsibilities.

Marileed has reported that abuse is not limited to the absence of official rights. In one of the houses you worked, She and her companions have forbidden to eat the same food and using the same family characters.

“We thought it was inferior,” he recalled.

The feeling of Exception E. Reduction of value It reveals that it is common in domestic, and that the problem is not related to the law – it is also a matter of honor and human dignity.

Legal progress, in practice gaps

Domestic PEC guarantees FGTS, night extra, extra time, family salary and unemployment insurance. However, according to Labor Lawyer Kamila Linharse, these are Rights are still frequently violated.

“Day -day control is defective. Most people work for more than 8 hours without getting overtime. And some owners know how registrations work in uneven or travel compensation.”

Another thing that the lawyer raised is that even among owners who try to follow the law, there is still much Error. Most people do not know, for example, it is necessary to sign the wallet from three days a week.

For Linhers, the Lack of checking Contributes to these manipulations to continue natural. The processing of bills in Congress and reducing the income tax’s in the income tax, trying to promote formalization, but the scenario is not yet enough to change the scenario.

Para led the unofficial ranking

Para A state with a domestic highest percentage without wallet signature across the northern region:: 90.5% of workers are unauthorized. It’s about 190 thousand people in this situation. In addition, the state concentrates 45.5% of the total domestic labor in the region. These statistics are from this week’s survey released by Para’s Intercendical Department of Statistics and Socio Economic Studies (Dice-Pa), Based on PNAD/ continuous data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

According to the survey, the number of professionals who deal with indigenous in Para 2.4%, contrary to national downfall, reveals a specific trend of the region: The Increased demand for this type of service lives with the fragility of legal guarantees. Work overload is clear: 28 thousand people work exceeding 44 hours a weekAccording to Dice/Pa. And often this overtime is not recognized or paid, which configures the direct violation of labor law.

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Discrimination, harassment and overload

The odds in treatment in homes are also excellent. The meritide reports the rebel episode:

“I had to eat food the day before and there was water from the tap, because employees could not use the same glasses and knives in the family.”

The account of Marilide was not separated. Threatening conditions, comprehensive journeys and discrimination are still extensively condemned by workers across the state. Lack of effective control and affordable condemnation can cause repetitive abuse of workers.

Access to justice: Half to practice

Despite the difficulties, there have been instances where the workers have resorted to court, without a lawyer – the so -called “Jas Post.” But the number of actions is still away to reflect the actual angle of the problem.

According to the alternative labor judge Larissa Kunha Barbosa E Silva of the 8th Regional Regional Labor Court (TRT 8), the profile of the domestic processes is almost always the same: the lack of portfolio registration, less than comprehensive hours and minimum wages.

When the Labor Court, when it is motivated, guarantees the identification of relations and payments, but the lack of knowledge of the law and the lack of knowledge of the law will prevent these cases from being resolved before it reaches the judiciary. “Unauthorized is a rule. The Magistrate lamented that it only comes after the registration action.”

What can change: bills and hope

According to Kamila Linhers, projects that strengthen domestic rights such as PLP 147/2023, which guarantees the protection of the PIS salary allowance category or PL 5760/2023, which is protected from slavery.

For her, these proposals are important, but not enough. It is necessary to invest in educational campaigns targeting both employers and maid, as well as expanding the performance of supervisory agencies.

Meanwhile, workers like Marilid continue to fight for recognition and respect.

“This is not so we are not so desperate to be respected. We are eligible, and too much.”

Bills in processing on a domestic maid:

• PL 1766/2019: proposes a reduction in the Income Tax Return;
• PLP 147/2023: proposes to grant PIS allowance to domestic employees;
• PL 2216/2023: Complimentary Law No. 150/2015 has been revised to expand the PIS salary allowance for domestic workers;
• PL 1608/2024: Simplifies the establishment of women’s re -OC in domestic violence conditions, allowing the use of values ​​in joint accounts to respond in a safe place;
• PL 2737/2019: Domestic and/or family violence in SUS gives priority to social, psychological and medical care;
• PL 5760/2023: Slave -establishes support and protection measures for a home worker protected from a similar situation;