Indonesian maid salary to be increased to $450???

[tamarind]

fern0324:

Hi,


Similarly, pls do not question the \"alternative opinions\" of the rest of the folks here if/when you have \"no knowledge of us or what goes on in our families \"

If you are not comfortable with these \"alternative opinions\" when compared to you own, you are welcome to not participate in this thread

Glad to read this. This is exactly what I thought.

Some people just cannot seem to understand that what they wrote could cause other people to be very unhappy.

[3Boys]

tamarind:

Some people just cannot seem to understand that what they wrote could cause other people to be very unhappy.

Your posts didn't make me very happy either. Should you stop posting then?

Its a forum.......

[3Boys]

Reality bites folks.....


http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110214-263468.html

http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_634603.html

I quote from the latter; \"The Government has maintained that foreign domestic worker (FDW) levies are in place to manage dependence on maids. Yet the maid population has been increasing over the years and we now have about 196,000 FDWs in Singapore......


Singaporeans may be used to paying maids a salary of $380 a month. If the maids work 12-hour work days with no days off, this works out to just a little over $1 an hour.

We live in one of the wealthiest nations in the world; surely we can do better than this, particularly for a community of workers who are an integral part of many households' everyday life.\"

For an alternative opinion -->

http://www.maidinsingapore.net/?page_id=2

I've posted before that it is quite ridiculous for the majority of Singaporean couples to predicate their child-bearing on the easy availability of maids. What happens when the maid supply is slowed or ceased? We become extinct??

I agree that for some selected families, extra help is needed, but I can't accept that for the majority of Singaporeans, a maid is a necessity. Actually the majority still don't have maids. --> http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100716-227259.html

[phankao]

3Boys:

tamarind:

Some people just cannot seem to understand that what they wrote could cause other people to be very unhappy.

Your posts didn't make me very happy either. Should you stop posting then?

Its a forum.......

[ChiefKiasu]

3Boys:

... I quote from the latter; [i]\"The Government has maintained that foreign domestic worker (FDW) levies are in place to manage dependence on maids. Yet the maid population has been increasing over the years and we now have about 196,000 FDWs in Singapore......

On a side note... (*I'm neither FOR nor AGAINST the use of maids in households *) ...

If the government really wants to manage dependency on maids, why impose a levy? The levy is paid to the government, but is seen by employers as a cost to having maids. Would the government not achieve the same principle of managing maid dependency simply by imposing a minimum wage for FDWs? That way, the money goes direct to the maids, maids are happier, willing to work harder, employers less stressed, and everyone live happily ever after.

Or am I missing something about the levy? (Just like I wonder why I'm paying radio and tv license for watching TV programmes that are paid for by advertisements, anyway). It seems pretty obnoxious that the government should be making money off the hardworking maids.

[tamarind]

ChiefKiasu:

Or am I missing something about the levy? (Just like I wonder why I'm paying radio and tv license for watching TV programmes that are paid for by advertisements, anyway). It seems pretty obnoxious that the government should be making money off the hardworking maids.

The levy is paid by the employer, not the maid !

The government is making money off the employers.

The levy adds to the cost of employing maids, but that does not mean that every maid deserves an increase in salary if the levy is removed. This is because many maids are basically good for nothing, cannot cook, cannot clean, cannot look after kids. SGD300 is a very high salary for these maids, they earn less than half of that in their own country.

[Brenda10]

tamarind:

ChiefKiasu:

Or am I missing something about the levy? (Just like I wonder why I'm paying radio and tv license for watching TV programmes that are paid for by advertisements, anyway). It seems pretty obnoxious that the government should be making money off the hardworking maids.

The levy is paid by the employer, not the maid !

Hopefully this Firday we heard some good news.
The government is making money off the hardworking employers !

Hopefully this Firday we heard some good news.

[tamarind]

Brenda10:

Hopefully this Firday we heard some good news.

What is going on this Friday ?

[markfch]

tamarind:

Brenda10:

Hopefully this Firday we heard some good news.

What is going on this Friday ?

Budget speech lor. DPM Teo already set the expectation by stating that we should not expect too much recently in the papers.

[Busymom]

ChiefKiasu:

If the government really wants to manage dependency on maids, why impose a levy? The levy is paid to the government, but is seen by employers as a cost to having maids. Would the government not achieve the same principle of managing maid dependency simply by imposing a minimum wage for FDWs? That way, the money goes direct to the maids, maids are happier, willing to work harder, employers less stressed, and everyone live happily ever after.

Actually, I think this is a good idea. If the maids are paid higher here, more maids would want to come to work here (as opposed to HK or Taiwan), then surely, with more competition, the quality gets better, right?

As someone said earlier, when the maid is good, existing/potential employers are keen to pay more anyway.