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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: Domestic workers and members from Centre for Women’s Development and Research (CWDR) staged a demonstration here on Sunday demanding revision of minimum wages and ratification of International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) 2011 convention on domestic workers. The protest was staged on the occasion of International Domestic Workers Day. The low pay pushes domestic workers to work at many houses, to earn a decent living. “Most domestic workers work part-time. “The country is a signatory to ILO Convention on Domestic Workers 2011, but eight years later, the convention has not been implemented.”Renuka said the procedure for getting a domestic worker identity card from the Domestic Workers Welfare Board is extremely difficult in the State..