Slavery is essentially still legal in many parts of South East Asia, domestic servants may serve for life becoming almost a part of a family while being paid next to nothing and denied the opportunity to live their own life. This is especially common in the Philippines.

There’s probably some kind of argument about whether such a life is better than starvation and poverty while such conditions remain rampant in those countries… but these people are never given a fair choice - and by fair I mean fully informed and lacking coercion.

The British taught them well.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Federal Court has ordered India’s former high commissioner to Australia to pay a former domestic employee thousands of dollars in compensation for unpaid wages and unfair working conditions.

Seema Sherghill arrived in Australia in April 2015, and spent about a year working for then-high commissioner Navdeep Suri Singh at his Canberra home.

Ms Sherghill had previously worked for Mr Suri while he served as India’s Ambassador to Egypt, but said this was a much different experience, as she was solely responsible for the upkeep of the eight-bedroom house.

Mr Suri did not appear at the hearing, but Justice Elizabeth Raper granted an order for the case to proceed in his absence.

Justice Raper found Mr Suri contravened four separate sections of the Fair Work Act.

“[Ms Sherghill’s] employment conditions bore no resemblance to what one would expect under Australian law,” Justice Raper said.

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