All About Full-Time Maids

[jennykhots]

Don’t bother to call. It’s best you drop them an email with your contact no. They will reply you within 3 days. If I am not mistaken, you can get a special stamp for 7 days extension after WP has expired but provided the maid’s passport is still valid. Again, you may email to ICA as well. Email is the most efficient and effortless way to contact any govt bodies… hotlines are just a waste of time & energy!

[i3mum]

Hi all,


Is there anyway we can write in to MOM to feedback about those maids? All the terms stated are beneficial to them, not us. Can we do anything about it?

[janet88]

i3mum:

Hi all,


Is there anyway we can write in to MOM to feedback about those maids? All the terms stated are beneficial to them, not us. Can we do anything about it?

Don't bother. MOM supports MAIDS more than we employers.

[i3mum]

Sigh.. these maids are getting from bad to worst.....with the support from the MOM, it seem like nothing we can do...


My current Indo maid is with me for 4 months and she has bad attitude problem. She is our 5th maid, and although she has bad attitude, but we \"close\" one eye, despite the fact that we have changed so many maids, knowing there is no \"perfect\" maid.

Recently, I realised she kept a diary, and I translated it, to my horror, She noted down every single thing when she got reprimanded and she wrote it like as if she was being ill-treated!

We concluded that we will want to send her off, but we hope to do something, in case another employer take over her...

Any advice?

janet_lee88:

Don't bother. MOM supports MAIDS more than we employers.

[janet88]

Hi LKVM,

Our dear govt, or should I say Ministry lf Manpower, goes all out to support maids. It’s obvious. We have to bear the sh!@ that the maids leave behind. After spending so much money paying agent fee, insurance, bond, safety course, torture of training them, these maids turn around and ask for transfer. We are at their mercy.

[i3mum]

Hi Janet & LKVM,


I agree with both of you, in the end we, employers are the one who suffer. These maids, no matter how well you treat them, their wishful thinking is to get even better & more than what they have, never satisfied! Sometimes, it’s just so intolerable!

[gumiho]

Request to speak to her new employer ?

Some of the maid agencies allow such arrangement before transferring the maid and mostly depend on the maid agencies.
For those maid agencies which are out to make monies from the maid, I don't think they will allow such arrangement.

i3mum:

Sigh.. these maids are getting from bad to worst.....with the support from the MOM, it seem like nothing we can do...

My current Indo maid is with me for 4 months and she has bad attitude problem. She is our 5th maid, and although she has bad attitude, but we \"close\" one eye, despite the fact that we have changed so many maids, knowing there is no \"perfect\" maid.

Recently, I realised she kept a diary, and I translated it, to my horror, She noted down every single thing when she got reprimanded and she wrote it like as if she was being ill-treated!

We concluded that we will want to send her off, but we hope to do something, in case another employer take over her...

Any advice?

janet_lee88:

Don't bother. MOM supports MAIDS more than we employers.

[toddles]

Although I must say that my mil’s neighbour’s maid is really poor thing. Her employers don’t give her enough to eat, and verbally abuse her all the time (I’ve heard the shouting). my mil sneaks food to her, and she’s so happy when she sees my dd cos it reminds her of her own dd.


it’s almost like slavery when she has to pay off her loan and undergo all that. and she’s the timid kind and is not the type to go embassy and kick up a fuss. think she’s been ‘suffering’ this for quite long already…

[janet88]

i3mum:

Hi Janet & LKVM,


I agree with both of you, in the end we, employers are the one who suffer. These maids, no matter how well you treat them, their wishful thinking is to get even better & more than what they have, never satisfied! Sometimes, it's just so intolerable!

Sometimes, it's good to have maids who have worked before...this way, they will appreciate what they are given. NEW ones take everything for granted. But prob is when you take one who has worked before, they tend to be very yaya-papaya.

[hquek]

i3mum:

Sigh.. these maids are getting from bad to worst.....with the support from the MOM, it seem like nothing we can do...


My current Indo maid is with me for 4 months and she has bad attitude problem. She is our 5th maid, and although she has bad attitude, but we \"close\" one eye, despite the fact that we have changed so many maids, knowing there is no \"perfect\" maid.

Recently, I realised she kept a diary, and I translated it, to my horror, She noted down every single thing when she got reprimanded and she wrote it like as if she was being ill-treated!

We concluded that we will want to send her off, but we hope to do something, in case another employer take over her...

Any advice?

Advise you to keep a diary with photographic/video evidence (if possible), on the stuff she's doing. You have to protect yourself - if she has diary, why not you keep one also to refresh yourself on what happened and why she was berated.

It seems that in the courts, maid diary is admissible as evidence (I'm not clear on this - just reading newspaper reports that states what maids put in their diaries were considered).

My ex-maid used to keep forgetting instructions (eg wash baby bottle clean...there was once when there was soap still left inside - lucky we had habit of rinsing it just before use). Until I wrote down the facts of what happened, and the dates, and made her sign against it. Then she'll suddenly be very clear and know what to do/not to do next time. It's always like that with her, don't write down, she'll forget; once I write, she'll not repeat that mistake.

Sorry to say, but I think it best not to keep her. Someone who's collecting such evidence probably has only ill intention. Gosh, is she here to work, or on a vendetta?