All About Full-Time Maids

[POA Teacher]

Coolkidsrock2:

Notksmum:

hi beauty79,


I also like to look for helpers who have some form of financial committment back home. ie. They need the money or are sole/sub breadwinners. I dig deep into family background and even asking whether they have friends or relatives here. I like to select helpers with small families and from provinces. They are simpler and because they need the money, they work hard.

Cannot agree more with this.

This is more so for those maids who are here to put their kids into private schools at home or in uni.

My best maid had only primary school education and her home is a wooden hut where they cook with firewood. Her family are workers of a landowner. She is able to act as a caregiver to elderly (handling medication and injections), cook, housekeeping and look after kids with time on weekends to learn cake making.

The ones who came after the new regulations on minimum education level cannot even come close.

When they first implemented this my maid commented that most of these budak sekolah would not make good maids.

[piyobaby]

The agency plays a very important part in the process and not all agency will side with employers, more often than not they tend to side with the maids. My current agency is one such classic example, keep repeating to me that it is impossible these days for maids not to carry hand phone which he emphasize times and again only after we sign the contract, what’s new.


We asked the current maid a lot of questions over the interview too and it does include ridiculous ones like "you have to sleep with ah ma and baby", "wat do you do when baby cry", "how do you cook rice". She is wif us for abt 2mths now and she is not too bad but too early to tell.

Good luck for your maid search.

[Qiss33]

Hi all, need your advice. Here's the clause of my contract with the employment agency (EA) regarding refunds.


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(1) circled in red: I think the \"period\" refer to the \"from the Agency within 1 Months\" (in clause 5.1.2) and not the \"within 90 days\" (in clause 5.1.1). If so, should I ask the EA to amend \"under clause 5.1\" to \"under clause 5.1.2\" for clarity?

(2) circled in purple: When I verbally asked EA whether the placement fees is refundable upon termination of contract (and we decided not to go for replacement), the answer is \"Yes\". The FDW's placement fees is 6 months of her salary. Hence, should I ask the EA to amend to \"based on 6 months of the FDW's salary\"? Otherwise, we will be short-changed?

Thanks in advance!

[POA Teacher]

Am not knowledgeable about this, but from reading the above extracts, it’s clear to me that something’s wrong. Para 5.3 is about returning the FDW to agency (which can happen only AFTER the FDW has been "placed to the employer", but Para 5.1 is about the period BEFORE the FDW has been "placed to the employer".


Wah!! how can the refund be based on placement fee of 2 mths’ salary, when the amount of the fee paid to them is many months’ salary.

The agency gave you a copy of the contract in advance? I tired asking for that before, but all agencies, except one, refused. Of course I took the maid from that agency. But that was years ago.

[Qiss33]

POA Teacher:

Am not knowledgeable about this, but from reading the above extracts, it's clear to me that something's wrong. Para 5.3 is about returning the FDW to agency (which can happen only AFTER the FDW has been \"placed to the employer\", but Para 5.1 is about the period BEFORE the FDW has been \"placed to the employer\".


Wah!! how can the refund be based on placement fee of 2 mths' salary, when the amount of the fee paid to them is many months' salary.

The agency gave you a copy of the contract in advance? I tired asking for that before, but all agencies, except one, refused. Of course I took the maid from that agency. But that was years ago.

Thanks for your response. I also find it contradicting hence I thought if the intend is to make reference to the period, then just point direct to the clause.

Yah, they have to give coz the employer is my grandpa (not at the EA when we went) while I'm the sponsor.

[TheAnswer]

Any reliable maid agencies to introduce?

[POA Teacher]

TheAnswer:

Any reliable maid agencies to introduce?

Hmmm, let me see.... what's the term for that?...ah, yes, it's \"oxymoron\"

[straffan23]

POA Teacher:

TheAnswer:

Any reliable maid agencies to introduce?

Hmmm, let me see.... what's the term for that?...ah, yes, it's \"oxymoron\"

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[DesertWind]

TheAnswer:

Any reliable maid agencies to introduce?

I use only Nations (Yishun branch) for all my maids. So far we took 4 already for my family. 3 currently still with us.

[DesertWind]

Nowadays, \"all\" foreign workers have handphones. Outside my house there are road constructions going on and each day there are many foreign-workers working outside. Except for the foreman who is a local I think, all others are foreign-workers. At one stage when foreman not around, I saw at least two using their handphones. One in the ditch out of sight, the other one quickly check and stuff it into the pocket.


This is the reality.

And Singapore is the most \"plugged-in\" country in the world (at least this was what I read in the papers sometime back). Not surprising whoever is in our country would be quite \"plugged-in\" too!

[By the way, when I mentioned that to my hubby, he said they have instructions inside their handphone on how to build the ditch/roads and if they encounter any difficulties, they will call a central hotline for help. Wah! Talk about being \"plugged-in\"! :salute: ]