{"id":4708,"date":"2012-07-05T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T10:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2012-07-05T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T10:24:01","slug":"policy-brief-no-3-2012-a-reference-wage-for-migrant-domestic-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/policy-brief-no-3-2012-a-reference-wage-for-migrant-domestic-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief No. 3 (2012) | A Reference Wage for Migrant Domestic Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Policy Brief No. 3 (2012)<br \/>\nA Reference Wage for Migrant Domestic Workers<\/h2>\n<p>Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) has been advocating for the introduction of a Reference Wage, as an alternative to the minimum wage, to protect and promote migrant domestic workers\u2019 right to fair, decent and equal wages.<\/p>\n<p>A reference wage is a skills related wage-spectrum for migrant workers for di fferent occupations established by agreement between sending countries. It seeks to address:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Competition over the minimum wage between sending countries.<\/li>\n<li>Discrimination of workers based on national origin in receiving countries.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Given that both undermine attempts to establish fundamental rights and labour standards for migrant workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/referencewage_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View the full policy brief here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Brief No. 3 (2012) A Reference Wage for Migrant Domestic Workers Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) has been advocating for the introduction of a Reference Wage, as an alternative to the minimum wage, to protect and promote migrant domestic workers\u2019 right to fair, decent and equal wages. A reference wage is a skills related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-briefs"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}