All About Full-Time Maids

[carebear]

madinked:

In any case, my maid now wants us to send her back home.


I am very open person so I chose to talk to her just now. I asked her she is being so slipshod when herd I am trying my best to be a good employer. I said I may not be the best but I am not mean to her too. I asked her if there is anything which she is particularly bring unahppy or upset about. That's when she told mr she wants to go back to agency after the loan. She quoted missing her sons (she is divorcee). I doubt so cause she told m mum once she wanted to change employer because she prefers families with school going children so that she can have more alone time I guess since I am sahm. I believe she is just using her sons as excuse to change employer.

Whatever. We have expected her to want to leave ever since my mum told us that.

We must pay for her air ticket, right?

If she is still under agent warrranty, then u just send her back to agent and they will transfer her to another employer.
Then you can get another maid from the agency, or if you don't want another maid, the agent is supposed to return you the loan you have paid prorated.
If past warranty period, and if she wants to go home, you have to pay for her air ticket.

[raynreg]

carebear:

If she is still under agent warrranty, then u just send her back to agent and they will transfer her to another employer.
Then you can get another maid from the agency, or if you don't want another maid, the agent is supposed to return you the loan you have paid prorated.
If past warranty period, and if she wants to go home, you have to pay for her air ticket.

Since its still under warranty, then send her back to agency would be in the employer's interests right.

[Dinah]

Rightfully speaking, if maid initiate the contract termination, she’s suppose to pay her own airfare. But you will notice alot of times, employers end up having no choice but to pay.


For eg: maid just finishes loan and requests to go home. Under such scenario, maid usually does not have enough savings/cash to buy air ticket. Employer asks them to work for another month to earn the air ticket money. But she is just dead decided to go home now and refuses to work for another month. The next thing employer may face is a crying maid, or sometimes a maid who appears to have slipped into depression. Employer gets worried (of the well-being of family members, esp young ones at home under her care) and has to buy the air ticket out of no choice since she may be a ticking time-bomb.

The last person you should expect to receive help from is the agency. They solely protect their own interests.

[madinked]

Heh, I didn’t know maids are under warranty.


She claimed her mom passed away in Dec (I posted about it here) and then she already wanted to go back. But she was still repaying her loan.
Come May when her loan is finished, that’s when she wants to go back (we expected this coming when we declined for her to go back in Dec).

lovekidsverymuch, as I said, I think she dislikes me nitpicking on her lack of quality of housework. And she prefers to work in a household when she can be alone at home, with very little supervision.

So as Dinah pointed out, I have a right to not pay for her tickets then? But carebear said I have to pay? So do I?

[madinked]

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[blurqueen]

madinked


I agree with Dinah. If maid initiates the return, she has to pay for her own ticket back home.

I had a maid who simply refused to wait till her 2 years is up even though it’s merely 4 months away. I made her pay for her own ticket back home simply because I felt she had made my life a living hell when she was here. If she had been a good maid and had an honest good reason to go home (like mother dying etc), I would pay for the ticket out of kindness.

My aunt’s maid too said she wanted to go back because of family, but in a blink, news was she simply wanted to go to HK to work.

[blurqueen]

madinked:

She claimed her mom passed away in Dec (I posted about it here) and then she already wanted to go back. But she was still repaying her loan.

Come May when her loan is finished, that's when she wants to go back (we expected this coming when we declined for her to go back in Dec).

lovekidsverymuch, as I said, I think she dislikes me nitpicking on her lack of quality of housework. And she prefers to work in a household when she can be alone at home, with very little supervision.

Since her mom is dead already ... would going back bring her back again?

Many maids had asked my 1st maid, how could she work with me (SAHM too) for so long (6years) as they'll quit as quickly as they can as females employers at home will give them hell, whine and breathe down their necks (something I don't do as i hate to nag). My maid was confused at first as she thought all employers are as nice as me :love: (blowing own trumpet) :rotflmao:

[madinked]

Dinah, I’m sure her reasons are not real for wanting to go back. I’m sure she would be back in Singapore very soon.


Within these 6 months, she has already bought so many pairs of footwear as well jewellery. So I don’t think it’s because of the sons. But really, the reason is not important to me anymore.

Now my question is if it’s possible to have 2 maids in the house for a couple of weeks so that the old one can train the new one? I brought it up with my current maid and she said she heard (see? She knows of so many things!) we can’t have 2 maids in the house. I also understand this ruling but it’s only for a transfer period. Is that possible?

[carebear]

madinked:

Heh, I didn't know maids are under warranty.


She claimed her mom passed away in Dec (I posted about it here) and then she already wanted to go back. But she was still repaying her loan.
Come May when her loan is finished, that's when she wants to go back (we expected this coming when we declined for her to go back in Dec).

lovekidsverymuch, as I said, I think she dislikes me nitpicking on her lack of quality of housework. And she prefers to work in a household when she can be alone at home, with very little supervision.

So as Dinah pointed out, I have a right to not pay for her tickets then? But carebear said I have to pay? So do I?

I once asked the agent who pays for the air ticket if maid wants to go back, and she said the employer has to if no longer under the warranty period. But you need to check your contract regarding this matter.
If she justs finishes her loan and wants to go home, it is likely that she will not have enough money to pay for the air ticket, so again the employer has to foot the bill.

[minnie2004]

madinked:

Now my question is if it's possible to have 2 maids in the house for a couple of weeks so that the old one can train the new one? I brought it up with my current maid and she said she heard (see? She knows of so many things!) we can't have 2 maids in the house. I also understand this ruling but it's only for a transfer period. Is that possible?

Hi madinked,
It's possible to have 2 maids at the same time but only for 2 weeks. Otherwise you have to pay double maids levy to MOM i think. We've done this twice previously. Both cases the new maid was recommended by our old maid. The upside is a smoother transition. The downside is the old maid would pass too much info to the new one, e.g. how many phone cards and gifts we bought her, how much we paid her in x'mas and CNY etc. So we have to match the perks we gave to the old one else the new one won't be happy. Also, some bad practices might be passed to the new one.