All About Full-Time Maids

[tamarind]

lovekidsverymuch:

tamarind:

The only truth is the maid's employment history on MOM website. Here are the instructions :

http://singaporemaid.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-check-employment-history.html[/b]

What if the maid is coming for the 1st time then we dont have any tools to check cause sometimes when the agency allow us to talk to the maid they dont pick up the phone and someone else says they can everything only when they come here they dont know wats the system like out here and cannot trust the agency at all :?

Then you have to depend on your luck. Getting a maid is like gambling.

As employers, we should be very skeptical. Remember that the maid agency earns a lot of money every time the maid gets a new employer, they will say anything to sell the maid.

[blurqueen]

moonee:

. . . she has a fat loan.

My mum was given a 200 angpow and left it on the kitchen table, she did not realize te angpow was missing until 2 days later. Aside frm this angpow 12 one dollar coins was missing frm my mums drawer. Of course the maid denied everything and challenged us to call the cops, also insisted we send her back for transfer.
The agent suggested we report to te police if any money was missing, he says he cant just listen to employers besides theres no evidence.
I think its rather unfair to transfer this maid, I was wondering should my mum make a police report just to get her blacklisted.

Does your maid has off days or pay given to her since she still has a outstanding loans? Has she been given the chance to pass the money out of the house? Did you check through her belongings? As much as we trust our kids, but could the kids have taken it?

The agent is right, no evidence, hard to accuse her. If you want to bar her from future employment, only way is to report to the police since this is related to theft (criminal offense). You'll have to bring the key family members to the police station as witnesses and be interviewed individually by different officers.

I went through that hassle just to bar my previous maid from coming back too. Felt it worth my while as I can't imagine her coming back here again under another passport (easily done). A record with police means her fingerprints are used instead of name/passport number. I wanted to stop her re-entering Singapore than let another family suffer.

[peapot]

blurqueen, bravo!!! Good job!! Thanks for protecting employers and using all means to prevent bad maids from getting new employment! We need more employers like you!!!


I couldn’t blacklist my previous maid because she didn’t commit any offence except using words to blackmail me. These are the maids that are harder to catch as MOM don’t believe blacklisting maids with wrong attittude or bad behaviour.

[peapot]

Actually its very common for filiphino maids to be single parent. My ex-filipino maid told me that its normal for them to have boyfriend here and a husband in their own country. They are quite liberal in their thinking because they were under spanish rule and the "ang mo" culture is assimilated into philippines. Hence English also better than most counterparts.


I just transferred out my Myanmar maid and my new indo maid has worked for me 4 days. So far so good but don’t know whether it will last. My mom told me only 4 days very hard to tell. Could be putting up a show. Need to monitor her for a longer time. My guess is normally whether maid can work or cannot work, her true qualities will surface within a month. After 2nd month, you can feel (woman’s instinct) whether the maid is the right match for your family. How about you guys?

[peapot]

moonee, yours is a classic example of why maids shouldn’t be transferred more than 2 times. Something is fishy and yet MOM don’t do anything about it while we are subjected to change maid only 4 times.

[shine_fs]

lovekidsverymuch:

peapot:

while we are subjected to change maid only 4 times.

is it 4 times in a calendar year? :?

Example : 1st Jan 2009 to 30th Jan 2010 (1 yr)

[Funz]

peapot:

Actually its very common for filiphino maids to be single parent. My ex-filipino maid told me that its normal for them to have boyfriend here and a husband in their own country. They are quite liberal in their thinking because they were under spanish rule and the \"ang mo\" culture is assimilated into philippines. Hence English also better than most counterparts.

So much for their catholic faith huh?

[madinked]

My maid saga continues.


Now she said she called back and her sister said she would look after the kids but now my maid wants a transfer which was what I thought she wanted all along.

Also found out her bio-data was not true as she confessed she has transferred once before, meaning I’m her third employer and not her second. After her first stint, she was the one who asked for transfer. After working for second for 1 year odd, she went back for 2 months and joined me. Now after half year, she wants transfer.

I agree that MOM should limit the number of transfers for maids. So irresponsible!

[shine_fs]

madinked:

My maid saga continues.


Now she said she called back and her sister said she would look after the kids but now my maid wants a transfer which was what I thought she wanted all along.

Also found out her bio-data was not true as she confessed she has transferred once before, meaning I'm her third employer and not her second. After her first stint, she was the one who asked for transfer. After working for second for 1 year odd, she went back for 2 months and joined me. Now after half year, she wants transfer.

I agree that MOM should limit the number of transfers for maids. So irresponsible!

From last year Jan to Nov 2009, total I changed maid 5 times. I was lucky that the 5th time went thu' w/o interview by MOM.

Last year, I was very angry cos from 1st to 4th maid, all wanted to transfer. During the interviewed they said willingly to look after baby and work for you. But when they were here, the longest worked for you 3 mths and asked for transfer.

I was very angry, called up the MOM and asked them why they have limitation for the employer to change maid but NOT to the maid who wanted to transfer.

[blurqueen]

peapot & lovekidsverymuch,


I actually did so as I know most families don’t have other adults home to monitor the maid’s movements. Right under my nose (SAHM), she could abuse my kids, I can’t imagine if non-supervised!

She hit my younger DS and threatened him if he cried or told anyone . . . She left many bruises (blood clots) which we warned her hands off, not once but many times! Then as my older can think for himself, she pushes him around literally, letting him fall hard on cabinets, knocking things in his way. I asked her about it but she always denied and lied.

Kept her because my mom refused to let her go, saying that I’m over-reacting and making things up!! :x Right now, felt stupid for listening to my mom as I just realised she doesn’t blink her eyes to abuse as I grew up being abused by her.

Maid also refuses to listen to specific instructions on medication, loves to play doctor. Such behaviour is very dangerous if her new employer isn’t home to monitor her when medicating kids or old folks.

Immediately after she flew off, I tried to bar her re-entry with MOM but since she actually abused my kids, I had to report to the police instead and be followed-up by counseling with their psychologists and full body-checks at the hospital! So much hassle because we were dealing with kids. Thankfully, we were able to lodge police report because there are witnesses (my current maid and I) so she can no longer come back.

Told police I only want to bar re-entry, not press charges but they said if she re-enters, it’s up to them whether or not they’ll press charges as crime is committed on young children.

Out of kindness, I wrote to her and told her that charges has been filed against her. Told her to seek other jobs that doesn’t deal with humans since she lacks the patience. Then to my surprise, she got her friends (neighbors’ maids) to pester my new maid for her number! She also lied to her friends (another bunch of sluts who sleep around during off days and brag about what they do during $ex to each other) that she was barred re-entry because I lied to police that she stole things from my house. Sigh … these Pinays … not my kind of ppl.