This article concerned about the way child laborers widely used in India. A lot of people in India hire child laborers, mainly girls as a maid. Most of the child that have been taken was a young boy or girls that live in the rural area. The reason for the employers was that the child laborers from India is cheaper and easier to control compared to the real workers from India itself or from another country.
I think, most of that employers were not being mindful of the situation itself, they were lack of self consciousness and seemed to be careless about the fate of the child. What make it worse is that most of the children were treated unfairly, they were forced to work hard. When their master told them to do something and they were not good enough to do so, their master would straight away punish them. The kind of punishment that they give to this children also not moralistic, it was not a scolding or anything close to it, they would beat the children badly. Though not every employers did so, most of them did a very bad thing. Even worse, the payment that the child receive is not worth the pain that they must suffer.
Another thing is that the children parents would just let them go in desperation because they couldn't do anything else. They didn't have enough money to enroll their children in school, to feed themselves and to buy their daily needs. They thought that by sending their children to work in the city, they would help their child to understand the urban society which is not quite right. They also thought that by sending their child to work, they would have to spend less money to buy any food. Even the neighbour in the rural community often helped agencies to spot the potential target. This also worsen the whole issue.
Another problem is that the government, though aware of the issue, couldn't do anything to improve the condition or stop the whole problem. They are fully aware the problem that they were facing, but even though they tried to do something, without the participation and help from the community, they couldn't do anything. They tried to stop by create a law which limit the available job for the child. But the effort didn't worked out and the slave business didn't stop, on the contrary the demand for the child laborers still increasing and the business still commerced illegally. Even the law itself couldn't stop it. I think that the government should try to create stricter law, and they should monitored the agencies to put stop on this problem. And moreover the government would have to check some houses to check whether the owner of the house follows the law or not. Even if this is hard to do, the government would at least captured some of the illegal owner and agencies. And lastly, what should be change is the way the community think.
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Sunday, March 04, 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Nurse threaten strike over 'derisory' pay deal
After reading this article, I was a little bit surprised. And I wondered how could the British government do a rather questionable action. The nurses threaten to strike because they were not satisfied regarding the raise of payment which was not enough for them. The government went as far as raised the payment for the nurse below the inflation. And the nurses also threaten to leave their job due to the inadequate payment.
From my point of view, the British government did a quite unusual thing. It's not that the decision was bad or anything, but I just couldn't find any reason for this particular action. The nurses certainly worked very hard to serve the country, the community and moreover they worked hard to save peoples’ life, and I think this decision was not fair for them. They already serve and put a lot of effort to help the community and they actually deserve something more than below-inflation pay rise.
The government also disappoints the nurses who will then either lower their productivity, or worse make them quit their current nurse job to look for a job with a better payment. Some people might work for their own vision, goal, or maybe they have their own motivation to help people in need and do it wholeheartedly, but then how could they afford their life with so minute payment from their main job. And even, the largest health union opposed this decision. Then again this was not the first time that this kind of situation happened, which I quote, “Every time we get a pay increase it actually acts as a pay cut”.
The government said that this decision was made to help the economic growth overall, but this supposedly not the only way to improve their economic growth. It's quite reasonable to reduce some subsidy or not rising so much payment for the workers as a means to improve economy, but it's still not fair to put the workers under pressure and paid them so low that it’s barely enough for them to pay their needs as if the government didn't care about their effort. I think the government should try to find another way to improve their economic growth, rather than make their own people suffer the loss.
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From my point of view, the British government did a quite unusual thing. It's not that the decision was bad or anything, but I just couldn't find any reason for this particular action. The nurses certainly worked very hard to serve the country, the community and moreover they worked hard to save peoples’ life, and I think this decision was not fair for them. They already serve and put a lot of effort to help the community and they actually deserve something more than below-inflation pay rise.
The government also disappoints the nurses who will then either lower their productivity, or worse make them quit their current nurse job to look for a job with a better payment. Some people might work for their own vision, goal, or maybe they have their own motivation to help people in need and do it wholeheartedly, but then how could they afford their life with so minute payment from their main job. And even, the largest health union opposed this decision. Then again this was not the first time that this kind of situation happened, which I quote, “Every time we get a pay increase it actually acts as a pay cut”.
The government said that this decision was made to help the economic growth overall, but this supposedly not the only way to improve their economic growth. It's quite reasonable to reduce some subsidy or not rising so much payment for the workers as a means to improve economy, but it's still not fair to put the workers under pressure and paid them so low that it’s barely enough for them to pay their needs as if the government didn't care about their effort. I think the government should try to find another way to improve their economic growth, rather than make their own people suffer the loss.
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