“The Employment Act we plan to introduce will make it mandatory to pay domestic aides EPF and ETF,” Manusha Nanayakkara, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment told parliament Friday.

“There are only 2.4 million workers contributing to the EPF now.” Under the new Act, “anyone who is employed will need to contribute to the EPF and ETF,” Nanayakkara said.

Household employees, along with certain social service organizations and charity organizations with less than ten (10) employees, are exempted from contributing to the EPF currently.