All About Full-Time Maids
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joy.faith:
U should report the agent to MOM as they are supposed to let potential employer know all important info especially if she has a police record. Based on this, if they don't give u a refund, u can report to CASE. And I will if I were you.
Yes we decide to fight back if they don't return our money ,and go to cASE if required, one family I know said the agent charged them 100$ just to send maid to airport and the maid had already ran away from employer house so not their fault right but when they told agent they will complain to CASE the agent said do what you can we are not even bothered. -
joy.faith:
U should report the agent to MOM as they are supposed to let potential employer know all important info especially if she has a police record. Based on this, if they don't give u a refund, u can report to CASE. And I will if I were you.
i would hv done the same and reported to MOM. I wouldnt even pay for lower fees on accommodation cos I was conned and I will tell MOM not to add her to my quota. Yes I would go to case if they wont return the money. Problem is Hsparkle cant go without a maid and any help for her is better then no help at all, haha this is how clever the agent is ... target a desperate employer!
Hsparkle... this maid can always be thrown to H.O.M.E if agent cant find new employer. Suggest that to ur agent. Isnt HOME suppose to provide shelter for workers with pending police cases or runaway maids? good place for her to go since agent cant find another victim to transfer the maid to.
Yes its very expensieve to hire a maid and I feel the pinch too. Why dont u tell agent U dnt want their replacement and get back ur money. let them know u dnt want to deal wth them cos of their dishonesty. Oh, u may then hear them tell u that the new maid is on her way.
I guess u rather wait but I still think u can call them and tell them that extra fees are not justifiable and they should not even charge u a cent and make u pay for their dishonesty. Anyway yr maid is full of wayang and rather \"lee Hai\".... I think the police would eventually close the case due to insufficient evidence and a lot of bull in her report. Hah, she must hv hurt the dog so she can also hurt ur kids. -
Hsparkle:
You can complain to MOM about this EA (employment agent). There is a channel on MOM website for you to feedback. EA are more afraid of MOM as their licenses are issued by them.joy.faith:
U should report the agent to MOM as they are supposed to let potential employer know all important info especially if she has a police record. Based on this, if they don't give u a refund, u can report to CASE. And I will if I were you.
Yes we decide to fight back if they don't return our money ,and go to cASE if required, one family I know said the agent charged them 100$ just to send maid to airport and the maid had already ran away from employer house so not their fault right but when they told agent they will complain to CASE the agent said do what you can we are not even bothered. -
Hsparkle:
one family I know said the agent charged them 100$ just to send maid to airport and the maid had already ran away from employer house so not their fault right but when they told agent they will complain to CASE the agent said do what you can we are not even bothered.
If any of you think an agent would bother to help you in cases of run away maids, you better think again.
My personal experience: I rang up an agency to inform them that a runaway maid was hanging around my block (my FDW had spoken to her and found out the name of her agency). She was hanging around (with a couple of guys) in the walkway beside the shopping centre where a branch of the agency was located.
The agency did not bother to do anything.... cos days later she was still there. -
Can someone recommend a good maid agency? I m looking for a Indonesian maid. My current one leaving in July.
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Agents behave so badly, maids behav so badly because they know they know they have nothing to loose…MOM come after us for EVERYTHING!
Food and lodging are taken care of, by us paying if the maids are sent back to agency.
Otherwise, they runaway…food and lodging at Embassy or HOME or with boyfriend. Singapore is such a safe place to roam about anytime of the day or night.
Back home, they only have family. Family can only feed you for so long, you have to start paying for your own.
Even if they loose their job in Singapore, they at least have food to eat everyday while they are making new friends at other peeple’s expense, embassy, HOME etc or us the employers. It would still have been an adventure and some enjoyment of food (while at employer’s), making new friends, have boyfriend and sex (without whole kampong knowing). -
moonee:
The situation we are in makes us desperate even though we tried without any help for a long time , after quit the job to take care of kids it is a total burden on just one person of the family . And meeting the demands in Singapore or I guess any other country is not easy. Being new in this fdw field were not aware about HOME , we will let the agent know about it, but seems agent is greedy one as even though the maid say or we say don't want the maid to go back her country and keep insisting that if we send maid back to her country we cannot get back the refund of loan, after much argument they say ok for a free replacement , but we feel that they might repeat the same scheme of extracting more money from employer by purposely giving us this kind of maid . So like what you say must end the contract with this EA, the maid keep telling us that she want to go embassy as she know the agent will not send her back and when we ask her why on earth is she here if she always want to go back, she say she is stress with the case, hmmm think she is the culprit and want to run away before the verdict is even out.joy.faith:
U should report the agent to MOM as they are supposed to let potential employer know all important info especially if she has a police record. Based on this, if they don't give u a refund, u can report to CASE. And I will if I were you.
i would hv done the same and reported to MOM. I wouldnt even pay for lower fees on accommodation cos I was conned and I will tell MOM not to add her to my quota. Yes I would go to case if they wont return the money. Problem is Hsparkle cant go without a maid and any help for her is better then no help at all, haha this is how clever the agent is ... target a desperate employer!
Hsparkle... this maid can always be thrown to H.O.M.E if agent cant find new employer. Suggest that to ur agent. Isnt HOME suppose to provide shelter for workers with pending police cases or runaway maids? good place for her to go since agent cant find another victim to transfer the maid to.
Yes its very expensieve to hire a maid and I feel the pinch too. Why dont u tell agent U dnt want their replacement and get back ur money. let them know u dnt want to deal wth them cos of their dishonesty. Oh, u may then hear them tell u that the new maid is on her way.
I guess u rather wait but I still think u can call them and tell them that extra fees are not justifiable and they should not even charge u a cent and make u pay for their dishonesty. Anyway yr maid is full of wayang and rather \"lee Hai\".... I think the police would eventually close the case due to insufficient evidence and a lot of bull in her report. Hah, she must hv hurt the dog so she can also hurt ur kids. -
st2:
You are absolutely right, this is what even we think that even though no job for them, housing , food , clothes i.e the basic necessities of life are met with . so who cares , this is only type of job where they can tell the boss to find another job for them at the boss's cost wow! And not to forget all that attitude and showing black face as if we owe them money.Agents behave so badly, maids behav so badly because they know they know they have nothing to loose..........MOM come after us for EVERYTHING!
Food and lodging are taken care of, by us paying if the maids are sent back to agency.
Otherwise, they runaway.....food and lodging at Embassy or HOME or with boyfriend. Singapore is such a safe place to roam about anytime of the day or night.
Back home, they only have family. Family can only feed you for so long, you have to start paying for your own.
Even if they loose their job in Singapore, they at least have food to eat everyday while they are making new friends at other peeple's expense, embassy, HOME etc or us the employers. It would still have been an adventure and some enjoyment of food (while at employer's), making new friends, have boyfriend and sex (without whole kampong knowing).
And for many of them no strings attached, like my maid said she have a six year old daughter and when I ask her when she came back from her off day if she manage to speak to her kid she say ,\"I forgot to call my daughter as I was partying \" as she don't have hand phone we even offer our calling card so she can talk to her for a short while she said she don't want. So forget about what they say about sending money to family , like what you say they are here to enjoy and make friends at our cost :mad: and we only have this forum to vent out frustration .
At least if MOM not penalize them for just running away without informing or ending contract in few weeks don't ask for their lodging fee from employer fo no reason , so heart pain to pay for such a maid to have fun. -
Hsparkle, When I mention HOME to u to suggest to agent, it was more like to threaten the agent. HOME is suppose to be a charitable organisation helping mostly foreign workers who have no where to go, not maids alone but workers frm construction who may hve some issues with the company they work for. As for the maids they know of HOME cos MOM has already stated the address in their fdw book. They are not in anyway part of MOM whatsoever but started by some lady who believes in human rights. Most agents and employers will not like their maids there. Nowadays when the maid run, its HOME or embassy they will land up in but more likely HOME since they offer shelter, listen to their demands and call up employers to let them know what the maid wants. If its an airticket they want HOME will speak on their behalf. They can accommodate for as long as 2 yrs I heard.
In yr case, I asked u to mention HOME to yr agent cos they dnt want to accomodate ur maid so the perfect place will be HOME. Dont think ur agent would like that but go ahead and suggest. U are the employer so HOME may contact u or ur agent to take ur maid back. Its best if the maid is not under ur name or they will hold u responsible for air ticket etc … ie if the maid want to go back. As long as u treated ur maid well she will hv nothing much to complain other then she want a transfer or to go home. It will not reflect well on the agent if she goes to HOME so they will not dare send her there.
I dont think ur agent is going to give u the new maid fast as ur maid is stilll under ur name and they haven found an employer to take over. -
I’m not surprised the maid does not want to talk to her daughter…some maids are afraid to call home because their family will be pressing them for money.
They are having a great time here with off days and a social life they would not have had, if they were at home.
Some of them don’t even want to return home, they rather spend all their money here or find boyfriends who will spend money on them.
My relative’s older maid brought the new maid to prostitution. We were all so shock as they were quite ugly. Later found out from the the police that in their estate, there were some maids recruiting maids for a pimp.
Pimp’ selling point to the customer was, maids are cleaner than professional hookers, virgins available.
Pimp’s seling point to the maid was, they get paid for a good time and attention from a man, nobody back home will know.
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