Should maids be given a day off every week?

[jyeo639]

Most are willing to give a day off once a month but few are willing to give it every week.Both have valid points.Let me share my few cents worth:

-let maid agency employ part-time foreign helper as replacement when ours go offday.6 employers can sign package with agency to share 1 helper.
-to avoid adding more cost,employer should be allow to offset from their
fw levy or at least co-pay.
-a panel led by interest parties like officials & home embassies to help solve the details.
Since we pay salary & levies,we also deserved help to solve these problems.

[Angelight]

Good suggestions!

jyeo639:

Most are willing to give a day off once a month but few are willing to give it every week.Both have valid points.Let me share my few cents worth:
-let maid agency employ part-time foreign helper as replacement when ours go offday.6 employers can sign package with agency to share 1 helper.
-to avoid adding more cost,employer should be allow to offset from their
fw levy or at least co-pay.
-a panel led by interest parties like officials & home embassies to help solve the details.
Since we pay salary & levies,we also deserved help to solve these problems.

[Nebbermind]

How about owners to issue condoms to maid on day off....like our NS boys on overseas missions? :evil:

[verykiasu2010]

Nebbermind:

How about owners to issue condoms to maid on day off....like our NS boys on overseas missions? :evil:

I believe sex and pregnancy can be managed

worse thing is after the day off, their attitude change and start to itch for employer-hopping

she can have all the sex she wants - don't bring the men home, don't bring home the disease, and don't change in working attitude to the worse, and don't agitate for employer change

but these mad maids are out of control on mobile phone and boy friends once they start to go out frequently, and very soon, money no enough, and trouble starts for the employers

[moonee]

Nebbermind:

How about owners to issue condoms to maid on day off....like our NS boys on overseas missions? :evil:

This is nothing new really, I know 2 employers that supply condoms to their horny maids. They are not encouraging but since the maids want to have their way and the employer cant stop them and need them badly this is the only way.

[Angelight]

Then I think the employers shld ask the maids to get their own condoms instead of providing for them. It’s only fair that the maids pay for their promiscuous lifestyle, not the employers paying for them…

[cher_06]

After having 5 maid in a totality of 17 years, in which one of them worked for 10 years, honestly, for those who are here to work and earn money, they are not hard up for the off days. I believe most Singaporeans are not as ugly as what the media has potrayed. Most of us are mostly educated and are professionals looking for an extra help so that we can spend more time with our kids without having to worry about household chores, unlike in the early 90s or late 80s, where maids were first introduced and we hear of overworked maids because the demographics were different then.


My friend’s maid has worked for 26 years in the family and she cant be bothered to go out even though her employer asked her to. The helper that stayed with me for 10 years, initially had off days every month, but after 2 months, she decided she wants the money. During her free time (which is probably once a month), she ask to go to the nearby mall for a few hours, and we are more than happy to oblige.

In my personal experience, I do not know if I can agree to a weekly off when my previous one has a monthly off and I find Gucci Bag, and Hotel 81 receipts in her. Before her off days, she is able to finish her contract and no big problems other than being nosey in the entire estate affairs.

Yes, I cannot interfere in her life, but if I feel threatened because of her lifestyle because I have kids at home, then I think I have every right to interfere. She is a DOMESTIC helper, she is not an employee like many of us here. She is part of my family - she lives and eat with me everyday and my children are with her, of course it matters who she is hanging out with and what she is doing. They have a choice if they want to work with off or no off days, which was specified in their contract.

Honestly, I do not think those who never had maids have a say whether off days should be legalized because they have not experience the full spectrum of the doings of the maids. Off days should be a mutual agreement between employer and their helpers, employers do not need the law.

[verykiasu2010]

cher_06:

After having 5 maid in a totality of 17 years, in which one of them worked for 10 years, honestly, for those who are here to work and earn money, they are not hard up for the off days. I believe most Singaporeans are not as ugly as what the media has potrayed. Most of us are mostly educated and are professionals looking for an extra help so that we can spend more time with our kids without having to worry about household chores, unlike in the early 90s or late 80s, where maids were first introduced and we hear of overworked maids because the demographics were different then.


My friend's maid has worked for 26 years in the family and she cant be bothered to go out even though her employer asked her to. The helper that stayed with me for 10 years, initially had off days every month, but after 2 months, she decided she wants the money. During her free time (which is probably once a month), she ask to go to the nearby mall for a few hours, and we are more than happy to oblige.

In my personal experience, I do not know if I can agree to a weekly off when my previous one has a monthly off and I find Gucci Bag, and Hotel 81 receipts in her. Before her off days, she is able to finish her contract and no big problems other than being nosey in the entire estate affairs.

Yes, I cannot interfere in her life, but if I feel threatened because of her lifestyle because I have kids at home, then I think I have every right to interfere. She is a DOMESTIC helper, she is not an employee like many of us here. She is part of my family - she lives and eat with me everyday and my children are with her, of course it matters who she is hanging out with and what she is doing. They have a choice if they want to work with off or no off days, which was specified in their contract.

Honestly, I do not think those who never had maids have a say whether off days should be legalized because they have not experience the full spectrum of the doings of the maids. Off days should be a mutual agreement between employer and their helpers, employers do not need the law.

:goodpost: :goodpost:

[bigsnoopy]

cher_06:

After having 5 maid in a totality of 17 years, in which one of them worked for 10 years, honestly, for those who are here to work and earn money, they are not hard up for the off days. I believe most Singaporeans are not as ugly as what the media has potrayed. Most of us are mostly educated and are professionals looking for an extra help so that we can spend more time with our kids without having to worry about household chores, unlike in the early 90s or late 80s, where maids were first introduced and we hear of overworked maids because the demographics were different then.


My friend's maid has worked for 26 years in the family and she cant be bothered to go out even though her employer asked her to. The helper that stayed with me for 10 years, initially had off days every month, but after 2 months, she decided she wants the money. During her free time (which is probably once a month), she ask to go to the nearby mall for a few hours, and we are more than happy to oblige.

In my personal experience, I do not know if I can agree to a weekly off when my previous one has a monthly off and I find Gucci Bag, and Hotel 81 receipts in her. Before her off days, she is able to finish her contract and no big problems other than being nosey in the entire estate affairs.

Yes, I cannot interfere in her life, but if I feel threatened because of her lifestyle because I have kids at home, then I think I have every right to interfere. She is a DOMESTIC helper, she is not an employee like many of us here. She is part of my family - she lives and eat with me everyday and my children are with her, of course it matters who she is hanging out with and what she is doing. They have a choice if they want to work with off or no off days, which was specified in their contract.

Honestly, I do not think those who never had maids have a say whether off days should be legalized because they have not experience the full spectrum of the doings of the maids. Off days should be a mutual agreement between employer and their helpers, employers do not need the law.

:goodpost:

[1amber]

cher_06:

After having 5 maid in a totality of 17 years, in which one of them worked for 10 years, honestly, for those who are here to work and earn money, they are not hard up for the off days. I believe most Singaporeans are not as ugly as what the media has potrayed. Most of us are mostly educated and are professionals looking for an extra help so that we can spend more time with our kids without having to worry about household chores, unlike in the early 90s or late 80s, where maids were first introduced and we hear of overworked maids because the demographics were different then.


My friend's maid has worked for 26 years in the family and she cant be bothered to go out even though her employer asked her to. The helper that stayed with me for 10 years, initially had off days every month, but after 2 months, she decided she wants the money. During her free time (which is probably once a month), she ask to go to the nearby mall for a few hours, and we are more than happy to oblige.

In my personal experience, I do not know if I can agree to a weekly off when my previous one has a monthly off and I find Gucci Bag, and Hotel 81 receipts in her. Before her off days, she is able to finish her contract and no big problems other than being nosey in the entire estate affairs.

Yes, I cannot interfere in her life, but if I feel threatened because of her lifestyle because I have kids at home, then I think I have every right to interfere. She is a DOMESTIC helper, she is not an employee like many of us here. She is part of my family - she lives and eat with me everyday and my children are with her, of course it matters who she is hanging out with and what she is doing. They have a choice if they want to work with off or no off days, which was specified in their contract.

Honestly, I do not think those who never had maids have a say whether off days should be legalized because they have not experience the full spectrum of the doings of the maids. Off days should be a mutual agreement between employer and their helpers, employers do not need the law.

:goodpost: :goodpost: :goodpost: well said