{"id":129204,"date":"2025-09-08T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129204\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:50:08","slug":"domestic-workers-suffer-mental-health-issues-over-low-wages-and-higher-living-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129204\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic workers suffer mental health issues over low wages and higher living costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>             The gap between what domestic workers earn and what they need to live is widening                <\/p>\n<p>08 September 2025 &#8211; 13:49 <\/p>\n<p> by Luyolo Mkentane<\/p>\n<p>The eighth annual report by Sweepsouth, an online home services platform, shows domestic workers battling mental health as they  swim against an avalanche of debt, hardship and job insecurity, with rising living costs outpacing their stagnant wages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Domestic Worker Pay and Working Conditions Report 2025, based on responses from 5,039 domestic workers nationwide, shows  one in three of the 839,000 domestic workers in SA still earns below the minimum wage of R28.79 per hour as living costs shoot through the roof.\u00a0..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gap between what domestic workers earn and what they need to live is widening 08 September 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-129204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}