All About Full-Time Maids

[peapot]

HWBW, wah! That’s scary! Better to send her back. In the beginning it may be innocent but who knows how things will develop! which man can resist temptation over long term? Maybe he can resist for a few months maybe with the maid bending forward revealing bosom but 1 year???!!! That’s what happen to my ex-Myanmar maid.

[peapot]

I send maid off to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

It’s true Minnie, sometimes it’s hard to put everything in black and white. But with each new maid we learn and very soon you will find your list getting longer. Sometime with this maid you face this problem, with another maid you face another problem. Eventually we will learn.

[HWBW]

DesertWind, contact12, peapot, hquek and 24hr-mum, Thank you!


I told my hubby I really really don’t like her, and don’t want to renew her. He looked unhappy but still companied me to get a new maid yesterday.

[24hr-mum]

re spelling out rules, how extensive and exhaustive can the employers make the list?? some times we dont spell out becos we DIDNT EXPECT maids to do certain (silly) things. i have never spelled out much rules to my ex-maid esp re FB cos we when employ her FB wasnt so popular then. she didnt hv a FB phone at that time too. many things i nvr spell out (eg cant reveal ur bosom, cant b close to SIR, nvr ask Sir where he works, dont take photos of our hse etc） but she knows and never do them cos she was a SENSIBLE maid.


does our boss spells out everything to us in black n white??

of cos its good to spell the rules out if u can, but it can never be foolproof.

[peapot]

True, someone sensible will never do it but we won’t know if the maid is sensible until things happen. The best is follow Taiwan and HK style. Transfer them out of the country instead of passing them around other employer.

[Chu Liu Xiang]

24hr-mum:

re spelling out rules, how extensive and exhaustive can the employers make the list?? some times we dont spell out becos we DIDNT EXPECT maids to do certain (silly) things. i have never spelled out much rules to my ex-maid esp re FB cos we when employ her FB wasnt so popular then. she didnt hv a FB phone at that time too. many things i nvr spell out (eg cant reveal ur bosom, cant b close to SIR, nvr ask Sir where he works, dont take photos of our hse etc） but she knows and never do them cos she was a SENSIBLE maid.


does our boss spells out everything to us in black n white??

of cos its good to spell the rules out if u can, but it can never be foolproof.

As I mentioned there's no need to spell out everything. Only those that need to be done and important ones.

A company Employee Handbook is a good example if you've seen one

:boogie:

[Chu Liu Xiang]

peapot:

True, someone sensible will never do it but we won't know if the maid is sensible until things happen. The best is follow Taiwan and HK style. Transfer them out of the country instead of passing them around other employer.

If S'pore will to follow Taiwan/HK then we must also willing to pay $600 - 800 starting salary for experienced maid, right?

There'll be then no such thing as new and inexperienced maid, huh?

:roll:

[Andaiz]

Chu Liu Xiang:

peapot:

True, someone sensible will never do it but we won't know if the maid is sensible until things happen. The best is follow Taiwan and HK style. Transfer them out of the country instead of passing them around other employer.

If S'pore will to follow Taiwan/HK then we must also willing to pay $600 - 800 starting salary for experienced maid, right?

There'll be then no such thing as new and inexperienced maid, huh?

:roll:

Sure...we can compete on those grounds; but with experienced maids come a whole new set of problems.

[Chu Liu Xiang]

Andaiz:

Chu Liu Xiang:

[quote=\"peapot\"]True, someone sensible will never do it but we won't know if the maid is sensible until things happen. The best is follow Taiwan and HK style. Transfer them out of the country instead of passing them around other employer.

If S'pore will to follow Taiwan/HK then we must also willing to pay $600 - 800 starting salary for experienced maid, right?

There'll be then no such thing as new and inexperienced maid, huh?

:roll:

Sure...we can compete on those grounds; but with experienced maids come a whole new set of problems. [/quote]Agree with what you said.

With new and inexperienced maids we complain at the slightest mistakes they make. When the day arrives that we're on equal footing with HK/Taiwan then we'll be hiring experienced maids with different set of terms and conditions of employment and, aslo, new sets of problems (as you mentioned).

So, new and inexperienced maids we complain.....experienced maids we will also complain. And thats for sure.

:xedfingers:

[LOLMum]

Maids to protest if $4,000 wage not met


Diana Lee (The Standard)

Monday, May 23, 2011

Leaders of eight associations warned yesterday they will escalate their protests if the minimum wage of domestic helpers is not increased from HK$3,580 to \"at least HK$4,000.\"

The Asian Migrants' Coordinating Body, comprising unions of domestic helpers from the Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand and Sri Lanka, said it will begin a campaign to collect at least 50,000 signatures from the more than 250,000 helpers in the city.

The body will also stage a protest outside the Executive Council on June 1, the opening day of the 100th session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, where some of its representatives will speak about the situation in Hong Kong.

Before the government's annual wage review for domestic helpers can be completed - which is expected in August - the group will mobilize thousands of members to join the annual July 1 rally organized by the pan- democrats.

This will be followed by a massive protest on July 24 by the group to re- enforce its demand.

The group said the wage increase for domestic helpers is moving \"at a snail's pace\" when compared to the economic recovery and inflation rate.

\"It's high time the government gives us a real wage increase,\" said Eni Lestari, a spokeswoman for the group.

\"We are geared to fight to get an okay to our HK$4,000 demand. Enough of the feel-good and pathetic wage hikes. We need a genuine wage increase.\"

She added the cost of food and other necessities has increased 4.6 percent, making it hard for foreign domestic helpers to make ends meet.

Lestari said they will not rule out seeking a judicial review as they are excluded from the statutory minimum wage of HK$28 per hour.

Joseph Law, chairman of the Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association, maintained an increase in wages to HK$4,000 would result in some employers refusing to rehire domestic helpers when their contracts expire.

\"Our survey supports a wage increase of about 2.8 percent, after considering the wage increase for Hongkongers in general is between 1.5 percent and 3.3 percent,\" Law said.