Take this occupiers!
Two cleaning ladies in India are applying to the Guinness Book of World Records for the lowest salary ever paid, according to an article by the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
Astonishingly, Akku and Leela Sherigar claim they’ve only earned $103 each for the more than 40 years they’ve toiled away cleaning toilets in southern India.
The breaks down to an average of about 180 rupees – or $3 – a year.
And for the last 11 years the women say they have worked for free following a dispute with their employer.
The two women, both 59, started working as toilet cleaners for the Government’s Women Teacher’s Training Institute, in South India, in 1971, for 15 rupees (25 cents) a month, the article continues. But they’ve not had a pay rise since, even though they say they’ve never missed a day’s work.
Although angry, the pair say they’ve now applied to the Guinness Book of World Records for the title of the lowest salary in the world.
Akku said: “We were promised a pay rise every year but it never came. We trusted our employers that eventually they’d pay us. We never believed it’d come to this.”
In 2001, the women decided they’d had enough and complained to the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal, in Udupi, near Goa, in southwest India.
Then, their wages stopped altogether with no mention of any reimbursement.
But the women still went into work cleaning 21 toilets, three times a day, seven days a week.
And for the last 11 years, they have worked for free.
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