Maid to get weekly rest days

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1amber:

Please lah, in HK the maids have to fork out a tidy sum to just to GO there and work. You think they want to play play? My ex maid is there now. She thought of the high pay and more freedom. So she went. Now she is regretting but cannot quit until she finishes her contract. Why? Because she has mortgaged her family farm to work in HK.


Do you think she would like to play around and get pregnant?

Also, I understand in HK, the maid are supposedly required to provide for their own lodgings with their own money. Most stay with the employer though as the employer finds it more convenience.

[LOLMum]

hong kong is hong kong, though our govt used this as comparison, we in singapore very different lah.


in hong kong, govt closes both eyes to many things.

here govt only closes eyes when it comes to employer’s welfare. we are less important than FT maids.

[MrsSeah]

Haiz… actually we cry father cry mother here also no use. I believe next year, most of the Singapore employer will get use to the weekly off lah. Because it become a trend liao. If you don’t follow you wouldn’t be able to get a maid.


Just like the $450 salary, that time we also scream here scream there. Now? Majority of them are paying their maid this salary liao. Anything change? Nope!!! Don’t pay? Maid want to change employer.

[mother777]

ayyah, today my maid request to my hubby to increase her salary by $50. She must have realized that since now the weekly 4-days off is mandatory, she is entitled to more salary (bcoz she does not want to go on weekly off’s).


wonder if she know that the rule is applicable for new maid contracts and not to the existing one’s.

[1amber]

I am so glad I have just gone maid free…enough of all this crap.

[mother777]

1amber:

I am so glad I have just gone maid free...enough of all this crap.

wow! so good for you..

I am just waiting for my son be about 5 years old.. by that time my DD will already by in Primary 5. Then i can try to put them both at childcare and after school student care.. happily will say \"Bye bye maid\"

[zmonster1969]

http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC120308-0000031/Disappointed-at-responses-to-weekly-rest-day


Could Hernieyati Mamat has read some of the postings here before writing to TODAY?

[1amber]

mother777:

1amber:

I am so glad I have just gone maid free...enough of all this crap.

wow! so good for you..

I am just waiting for my son be about 5 years old.. by that time my DD will already by in Primary 5. Then i can try to put them both at childcare and after school student care.. happily will say \"Bye bye maid\"

yeah! It will be faster than you think so hang on just a little longer there! :snuggles:

[mumto2]

1amber:

I am so glad I have just gone maid free...enough of all this crap.

Me 2!!! i'm so glad to be maid-free after 14 yrs! Initially when we had to send our ex-maid (4 yrs with us) back home urgently (cos she got preggy on her off-days...), we were so lost after losing a capable helper....but now with all this crap, I'm soo glad that I have the whole house to ourselves with no more stranger and nonsense!

[1amber]

mumto2:

1amber:

I am so glad I have just gone maid free...enough of all this crap.

Me 2!!! i'm so glad to be maid-free after 14 yrs! Initially when we had to send our ex-maid (4 yrs with us) back home urgently (cos she got preggy on her off-days...), we were so lost after losing a capable helper....but now with all this crap, I'm soo glad that I have the whole house to ourselves with no more stranger and nonsense!

hee hee hee I also get to be very airy with what I wear at home (blush)

hip hip hooray :rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah: