Should part-time help be allowed into homes? In lockdown 3.0, there is a new source of conflict between apartment associations and their residents For 50-year-old Vijayamma, the national lockdown has been a difficult time.
She works as part-time domestic help for two families in a gated residential complex in the Sarjapur Road area of Bengaluru and lives in one of the villages that surround the upper-middle-class neighbourhood of tech parks and techies.
In the first month of the lockdown, one of her employers paid her regular salary, but as the lockdown continued through April, they seemed reluctant to continue to pay her for “doing nothing".