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Diplomat row: US holds back details of embassy staff’s salary
India is ready to harden its stand against the US authorities “dragging their feet” on providing information about names and salaries of Indians working at the embassy and its four consulates in New Delhi.
The external affairs ministry had sought the information from the US authorities in the wake of the ill treatment meted out to Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade on the charges of visa fraud and underpaying her nanny.
The idea behind seeking this information was apparently to find out whether the US is paying its Indian staff in embassies and consulates as per its laws.
Since the Khobragade row also involves her being charged for not paying her nanny the US minimum wages, New Delhi was keen to know whether Indian staffers working in US missions here — which are US territories — are being paid the minimum wages as per American law.
The deadline for submitting these details, including the names and salaries of those working as helps in the households of US diplomats and other officials, was December 23, but the US has sought more time.
Khobragade has submitted that she paid the nanny $1,560 a month (in line with US labour laws) and suggested that the US authorities had goofed up, mistaking her $4,500 salary in the nanny’s visa form as the latter’s salary.
Khobragade’s defence will be that she and the nanny were in a mutually agreed and advantageous contractual relationship, for which there are material evidences and witnesses.
These contracts include the mandatory state department contract, signed on November 11, and the one signed in India for sending `30,000 per month to India.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/diplomat-row-us-holds-back-staff-salary-
details/article1-1166413.aspx
seems like they have something to hide too..
India is ready to harden its stand against the US authorities “dragging their feet” on providing information about names and salaries of Indians working at the embassy and its four consulates in New Delhi.
The external affairs ministry had sought the information from the US authorities in the wake of the ill treatment meted out to Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade on the charges of visa fraud and underpaying her nanny.
The idea behind seeking this information was apparently to find out whether the US is paying its Indian staff in embassies and consulates as per its laws.
Since the Khobragade row also involves her being charged for not paying her nanny the US minimum wages, New Delhi was keen to know whether Indian staffers working in US missions here — which are US territories — are being paid the minimum wages as per American law.
The deadline for submitting these details, including the names and salaries of those working as helps in the households of US diplomats and other officials, was December 23, but the US has sought more time.
Khobragade has submitted that she paid the nanny $1,560 a month (in line with US labour laws) and suggested that the US authorities had goofed up, mistaking her $4,500 salary in the nanny’s visa form as the latter’s salary.
Khobragade’s defence will be that she and the nanny were in a mutually agreed and advantageous contractual relationship, for which there are material evidences and witnesses.
These contracts include the mandatory state department contract, signed on November 11, and the one signed in India for sending `30,000 per month to India.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/diplomat-row-us-holds-back-staff-salary-
details/article1-1166413.aspx
seems like they have something to hide too..