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

[LOLMum]

if i remember correctly, philippines and indonesia did impose a short ban on some asian countries because of low salary dispute and abuse.


now saudi arabia impose a ban on maids coming from indonesia and the latter claimed any prolonged ban will hurt its economy despite the widespread abuse of maids over there. the degree of abuse including rape in my opinion is far far much worse than what i have seen in newspapers reports here.

[Busymom]

LKVM:

:salute: to you Busymom... we have so much problem handling 1 maid you are handling 2 :shock:

:lol: I have my fair share of problems... but the one who gave me the most issues was my first maid of 4 years. Her attitude only improved after I got a second maid since she realised that she wasn't indispensable (which she thought she was as I have absolute zero extended family support).

Mind you, we treated her well... to the extent that some people thought that I should have called her \"Mdm\"... :lol:

[janet88]

Busymom:

janet_lee88:

Which dumb maid thinks expat families do not have babies to look after ?

I know of one Canadian family which has a Filipino maid...the couple works and the maid has to look after a newborn as well as a 2 year old, bring the older one to/fro school, cook and do housework. She has to pat the kids to bed at 8pm, then go about doing housework.

hmm... just 1 maid to take care of 1 newborn and 1 toddler... many people employ 2 maids in that case, myself included, to ensure that they are not overworked. Who says only expat families can have good life?

Wow :shock: 2 maids to make sure they are not over-worked. Your maids have 好命. Do your maids draw the line as to what they do ? Will they help each other out ?
A friend of mine stays at her parents place...she has one maid and her parents have one. Though same nationality, the 2 maids are rather calculative.

[peapot]

My current indonesia maid who can speak mandarin told me that she don’t dare to go Taiwan because Taiwan people like to hire maids to work in farms. She says she don’t want to be a farmer and work under the hot sun, she rather take a lower salary and work at home. I guess there may be some truth because I know there are alot of farms in Taiwan. But since she’s never been to Taiwan, her information may came from maids who had worked there.


So the $800+ salary for a farmer I think it’s consider cheap labour for Taiwanese. That’s why it’s not fair to compare our salary scheme here with other countries.

[Busymom]

janet_lee88:

Wow :shock: 2 maids to make sure they are not over-worked. Your maids have 好命. Do your maids draw the line as to what they do ? Will they help each other out ?
A friend of mine stays at her parents place...she has one maid and her parents have one. Though same nationality, the 2 maids are rather calculative.

I think they are relatively 好命, especially with no adult at home to monitor what they do when we are working... lol.

I drew the lines for what they have to do, to ensure fairness and accountability... but overtime, that has blurred somewhat, but in a way, it is also better that the kids do not grow too attached to one particular maid. Still, the kids may also prefer one maid to another... and the challenge is constantly how to make sure one maid is not taking advantage of the situation and doing less. My two maids aren't exactly on talking terms with each other now, sigh! It's high time to look for a replacement for one of them... any good maid agency that anyone could recommend??

[Busymom]

LKVM:

Icic still must be quite tiring and expensive also right :shock:

We are lucky that this is not an issue for us, but there are many people who are truly squeezed or can't afford to pay more or have to choose between paying a maid more vs sending the child to some enrichment... these are the ones that we should think about.

[tamarind]

janet_lee88:

Busymom:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]Which dumb maid thinks expat families do not have babies to look after ?

I know of one Canadian family which has a Filipino maid...the couple works and the maid has to look after a newborn as well as a 2 year old, bring the older one to/fro school, cook and do housework. She has to pat the kids to bed at 8pm, then go about doing housework.

hmm... just 1 maid to take care of 1 newborn and 1 toddler... many people employ 2 maids in that case, myself included, to ensure that they are not overworked. Who says only expat families can have good life?

Wow :shock: 2 maids to make sure they are not over-worked. Your maids have 好命. Do your maids draw the line as to what they do ? Will they help each other out ?
A friend of mine stays at her parents place...she has one maid and her parents have one. Though same nationality, the 2 maids are rather calculative.[/quote]I also had 2 maids at the same time, when my late father was living with me. I needed one maid to look after him because he was bedridden. The other maid took care of the kids.

I had no problems at all, because the maid taking care of my father was very mature and had a very good attitude. The other maid was young and she looked up to the older maid for guidance.

I don't think it is right to over-work a maid. My SIL has 3 kids age 7, 3, 1, and living with her elderly parents-in-law in a 3 storey terrace house. She only wants to employ one maid, and her maids keep leaving because the work is too tough. She really should employ 2 maids.

[tamarind]

Busymom:

LKVM:

Icic still must be quite tiring and expensive also right :shock:

We are lucky that this is not an issue for us, but there are many people who are truly squeezed or can't afford to pay more or have to choose between paying a maid more vs sending the child to some enrichment... these are the ones that we should think about.

In my case, I cannot send my boy to childcare because he was ill once every month. I could not even send him to kindergarten. He was hospitalized twice due to HFMD. At 5 years old, he had to wear clothes for 3 year old kids because he was so small. I kept him at home with my mother and my maid, and this turned out to be the best decision that I have made. He finally looks like a child of his age now.

[laughingcat]

peapot:

My current indonesia maid who can speak mandarin told me that she don't dare to go Taiwan because Taiwan people like to hire maids to work in farms. She says she don't want to be a farmer and work under the hot sun, she rather take a lower salary and work at home. I guess there may be some truth because I know there are alot of farms in Taiwan. But since she's never been to Taiwan, her information may came from maids who had worked there.


So the $800+ salary for a farmer I think it's consider cheap labour for Taiwanese. That's why it's not fair to compare our salary scheme here with other countries.

I was also told that maids in TW or HK live by themselves in a rented or shared apartment, away from the employer's house and need to travel to their emploment house everyday. Is that true? Is that the reason for their increase in salary as well?

[ululu]

Anyone knows who are the 17 maid agencies that gang up this time for this obnoxious move? Can someone list their company names here? I will try my best to avoid them in future.