Reyes Galindo Seeks Recognition of Domestic Work – MonitorExpresso.com

Morelia, Michoacán. – Recognising domestic work as a long working day is one of the premises of the member of the parliamentary group of the Labour Party (PT), J. Reyes Galindo Pedraza, and he made it clear in the extraordinary session that took place today in the plenary hall held today.  Galindo Pedraza took to the podium to vote on the approval to add a second paragraph to Section I of Article 11 of the Law for a Life Free of Violence for Women in the state of Michoacán, which seeks to recognize the social relevance of domestic work. “In recent decades, to talk about domestic work is to talk about unpaid work in most cases (…) It is an exhaustive activity in short because they are activities, occupations, related to the care, maintenance of the home, the family and its members,” says the PT member.  And using a more focused look at the endless hours invested and the expenditure of energy that women endure almost alone within their daily lives, she mentions that domestic work does not have a working day because it exceeds what the legislation itself could indicate. “They don’t even require a working day because it would extend far beyond what is contemplated by the labor legislation itself,” he adds.  Faced with such a situation, Reyes Galindo shared in front of his counterparts and the media that with his proposal he seeks to “contemplate as part of workplace violence a series of assumptions such as not recognizing domestic and care work, not recognizing the double working day, and forcing women even in pregnancy to perform tasks that put their managerial health at risk.” It should be noted that without the addition that the deputy plans to make, if the Substantive and Gender Equality and Labor and Social Welfare commissions approve it, said Section I subscribes to the following: “I. Such as workplace violence, the refusal to hire, respect their permanence or general working conditions due to the requirement of proof of pregnancy, imposition of sexist requirements in the way of dressing, exclusion of gender in certain positions due to age in accordance with the Federal Labor Law, also constitutes the disqualification of the work performed, threats, intimidation, humiliation, exploitation and all kinds of gender-based discrimination.”

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