All About Full-Time Maids
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I agree. Most change their attitudes after they meet their friends. Rarely we have those who do not want to go out.
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Dear all
Appreciate your opinions/ comments about maids.
I got a maid to take care of my children 'cos my husband and I are both working. My maid has been with my DD and DS since they were born.
1. My children likes the maid alot, to the extend that they prefer the maid to feed them, tuck them to bed, etc over mummy and daddy sometimes. But my children also love their mummy and daddy. How old were your children before they grew out of their maids and love mummy and daddy the most?
2. My maid is generally ok, although sometimes she show us "bochup" face. She likes to play politics abit with my relatives. I overlook small matters as long as she does not go overboard and takes good care of my children. I am afraid that as my toddler age children grows bigger, she may try to manipulate them against mummy and daddy. Did that happen to your children? E.g. maid don’t want to wash car or something and tell your children mummy and daddy treat her badly, and the child is angry with mummy and daddy, and ask her parents why they bully the maid?
3. There were some incidents in the past where my maid did some wrong things to my relatives and me. She has since apologised for what she did. I accept her apologies and want to move on. Any of you have maids who commit wrongs, and your family forgave her, and decided to carry on with her?
Thanks for your opinions. -
lostbunny:
I agree. Most change their attitudes after they meet their friends. Rarely we have those who do not want to go out.
somehow i feel this happens not only because other maid friends teach tricks for your new maid. it's more like they find the equality and freedom to talk where they dont experience at home, after meet up with friends. of course they are equal between them and they are free to talk about anything. this gives them a sense of \"new\" life. after come back home, they will suddenly feel more restricted and may lose patience.
you can say that it's the same case for us working in corporation and office environment but we dont feel too much restriction and lose patience when working. but most of us stay in office 8-12 hours at most. but for most maids, every sunday off is the best they can have. once they experience the new life, they may not be able to get used to the long working hours as domestic helper. their hearts are simply taken away.
my guessing only. -
hello,
anyone here with experience getting an Exit Pass for your filipino maid?
after my earlier grouse of expensive air tickets, i’m now slapped with another shocker!!
I learnt from a colleague that my maid has to apply for an Exit Pass.
Without it, she won’t be able to come back to Singapore after her vacation at home.
On top of this, there is a special $2k insurance / bond that we have to buy for filipino maids.
The Exit Pass comes together with some contract, supposedly ensuring that each maid is paid no less than US$400. My colleague and I both don’t pay US$400 per month, so i guess the contract will be just to faciliate travel to/from Philippines?
My maid agency wants to charge me $290 for obtaining the exit pass, and another agency is charging $280. Subsequent to this initial exit pass, the maid need only pay S$6 for each exit pass.
Anyone experienced it?
Or anyone who managed to get the exit pass on his/her own?
Sigh … one maid’s home vacation = S$1k. OUCH !!! -
cody:
Filipinas getting too expensive to employhello,
anyone here with experience getting an Exit Pass for your filipino maid?
after my earlier grouse of expensive air tickets, i'm now slapped with another shocker!!
I learnt from a colleague that my maid has to apply for an Exit Pass.
Without it, she won't be able to come back to Singapore after her vacation at home.
On top of this, there is a special $2k insurance / bond that we have to buy for filipino maids.
The Exit Pass comes together with some contract, supposedly ensuring that each maid is paid no less than US$400. My colleague and I both don't pay US$400 per month, so i guess the contract will be just to faciliate travel to/from Philippines?
My maid agency wants to charge me $290 for obtaining the exit pass, and another agency is charging $280. Subsequent to this initial exit pass, the maid need only pay S$6 for each exit pass.
Anyone experienced it?
Or anyone who managed to get the exit pass on his/her own?
Sigh ... one maid's home vacation = S$1k. OUCH !!! -
can you please provide a breakdown of the total cost? i.e, how does the S$1k amount come from...i believe this will be very very helpful information. thanks.
cody:
hello,
anyone here with experience getting an Exit Pass for your filipino maid?
after my earlier grouse of expensive air tickets, i'm now slapped with another shocker!!
I learnt from a colleague that my maid has to apply for an Exit Pass.
Without it, she won't be able to come back to Singapore after her vacation at home.
On top of this, there is a special $2k insurance / bond that we have to buy for filipino maids.
The Exit Pass comes together with some contract, supposedly ensuring that each maid is paid no less than US$400. My colleague and I both don't pay US$400 per month, so i guess the contract will be just to faciliate travel to/from Philippines?
My maid agency wants to charge me $290 for obtaining the exit pass, and another agency is charging $280. Subsequent to this initial exit pass, the maid need only pay S$6 for each exit pass.
Anyone experienced it?
Or anyone who managed to get the exit pass on his/her own?
Sigh ... one maid's home vacation = S$1k. OUCH !!! -
you’re right! indonesians are cheaper … lower monthly salary, cheaper air tickets and more importantly, the process for going to/fro Indonesia is alot simpler!
for other parents here with indonesian maids, all you need to do is to bring your maid’s passport to the indonesian embassy to endorse your address on it.
once u do that, your indonesian maid can travel freely to/fro indonesia.
without that, i think there’s a fine of S$50 thereabouts at the indonesian customs.
the only trouble is that there is NO parking space for cars at the indonesian embassy, and they open for only 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon.
after the endorsement, you have to go back afew days later to collect the passport. -
liuhao:
can you please provide a breakdown of the total cost? i.e, how does the S$1k amount come from...i believe this will be very very helpful information. thanks.
well, that $1k is just an approximate.
here's the breakdown:
Air Ticket $530 (can be cheaper if you book waaaaay in advance)
Exit Pass $290 (done thru a maid agency)
Insurance $50
That sums up to $870 already.
Plus i typically give at least 1 month bonus upon completion of each year of service .... definitely crossed the $1k mark already.
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cody:
Well, hiring of maids ain't cheap.hello,
anyone here with experience getting an Exit Pass for your filipino maid?
after my earlier grouse of expensive air tickets, i'm now slapped with another shocker!!
I learnt from a colleague that my maid has to apply for an Exit Pass.
Without it, she won't be able to come back to Singapore after her vacation at home.
On top of this, there is a special $2k insurance / bond that we have to buy for filipino maids.
The Exit Pass comes together with some contract, supposedly ensuring that each maid is paid no less than US$400. My colleague and I both don't pay US$400 per month, so i guess the contract will be just to faciliate travel to/from Philippines?
My maid agency wants to charge me $290 for obtaining the exit pass, and another agency is charging $280. Subsequent to this initial exit pass, the maid need only pay S$6 for each exit pass.
Anyone experienced it?
Or anyone who managed to get the exit pass on his/her own?
Sigh ... one maid's home vacation = S$1k. OUCH !!!
My experience is similar to yours when our maid went for home leave last year. It is much more convenient to get the maid agency to do the exit pass for you and pay the $280 or $290. I did some research last year and I think doing it yourself is rather difficult, though you may save a little bit of money.
Yes, this contract thing is a farce. You will have to sign a contract showing that you pay the Filipino maid a certain minimum salary, or else the Filipino embassy will not give you the exit pass.
Legally, the maid can then attempt to enforce the contract against you. But as this is a civil issue, I don't think maids have the financial capacity to hire lawyers to fight their case.
My suggestion to you is that you sign a separate contract with your maid, to state clearly her salary and whatever perks you give her. This can be a simple contract. Just in case there is dispute later on, you have this piece of paper to back up your claims that your maid agreed to the salary that you are paying her. -
i learnt from other forum that the large amount of cost for exit pass can be saved if you have the phillipine embassy stamped contract. this is a contract that states that maid salary is at least US$400. it's required when you do maid passport renewal in Singapore and must also be provided to apply exit pass. so if your maid has done the passport renewal before, you or the agent should have this contract. it's important. most of the cost for the exit pass is to pay the phi embassy to obtain this stamped contract.
however if maid has never done passport renewal before, this contract does not exist, because nowadays maid normally entered singapore using travel/holiday purpose and round trip air ticket to fool the Philippine custom, rather than the working purpose to save cost. the return ticket will be canceled later once maid landed. legally by right, they should not work as maid but once they are in singapore, they are not under control of phil government. but the phil embassy will catch you when maid needs to do passport renewal (that is for working purpose, cant escape cant fool) because this stamp contract is required for passport renewal.
correct me if i am wrong.noobparent:
Well, hiring of maids ain't cheap.cody:
hello,
anyone here with experience getting an Exit Pass for your filipino maid?
after my earlier grouse of expensive air tickets, i'm now slapped with another shocker!!
I learnt from a colleague that my maid has to apply for an Exit Pass.
Without it, she won't be able to come back to Singapore after her vacation at home.
On top of this, there is a special $2k insurance / bond that we have to buy for filipino maids.
The Exit Pass comes together with some contract, supposedly ensuring that each maid is paid no less than US$400. My colleague and I both don't pay US$400 per month, so i guess the contract will be just to faciliate travel to/from Philippines?
My maid agency wants to charge me $290 for obtaining the exit pass, and another agency is charging $280. Subsequent to this initial exit pass, the maid need only pay S$6 for each exit pass.
Anyone experienced it?
Or anyone who managed to get the exit pass on his/her own?
Sigh ... one maid's home vacation = S$1k. OUCH !!!
My experience is similar to yours when our maid went for home leave last year. It is much more convenient to get the maid agency to do the exit pass for you and pay the $280 or $290. I did some research last year and I think doing it yourself is rather difficult, though you may save a little bit of money.
Yes, this contract thing is a farce. You will have to sign a contract showing that you pay the Filipino maid a certain minimum salary, or else the Filipino embassy will not give you the exit pass.
Legally, the maid can then attempt to enforce the contract against you. But as this is a civil issue, I don't think maids have the financial capacity to hire lawyers to fight their case.
My suggestion to you is that you sign a separate contract with your maid, to state clearly her salary and whatever perks you give her. This can be a simple contract. Just in case there is dispute later on, you have this piece of paper to back up your claims that your maid agreed to the salary that you are paying her.
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