TWC2 Draft Bill

Transient Workers Count Too presents the draft on our website as a comprehensive representation of what our forerunner group believed, in 2003, would be a fair and practical compendium of legal provisions governing the foreign domestic worker issue. It reflects what we thought was achievable in the near future, not necessarily what we thought were the conditions that ought to prevail. That is why, for example, the draft only provides for a minimum of one day off every two weeks for domestic workers. Public opinion has moved on a little since then and so have the views of Transient Workers Count Too: if we were drafting such a bill now, we would certainly make provision for a day off every week.

We found it odd to use 'he' and 'his' in reference to a group of workers who are all female, but decided to follow parliamentary convention.

TWC2 published the text of the bill in print form in the book edited by John Gee and Elaine Ho, ‘Dignity Overdue’. This is its first online publication.

You can download the bill here : TWC2_Draft_Bill_2003.pdf