Maid to get weekly rest days

[LOLMum]

yeah lor, why not pick an angmoh? can marry up right? maybe even can bring whole family to ang moh's country and entitled to all the benefits there. :? no matter what, most angmoh here earns more and definitely wont ask from maids unless he is a pimp.


we do have many pretty maids with nice figures.

i read all those angmohs bashing local employers for treating the maids like slaves, so why not help them one step more by marrying them :?

[verykiasu2010]

anybody did a search who are the owners of those maid agencies ?

[LOLMum]

tan family? :evil:

[jtoh]

LOLMum:

yeah lor, why not pick an angmoh? can marry up right? maybe even can bring whole family to ang moh's country and entitled to all the benefits there. :? no matter what, most angmoh here earns more and definitely wont ask from maids unless he is a pimp.


we do have many pretty maids with nice figures.

i read all those angmohs bashing local employers for treating the maids like slaves, so why not help them one step more by marrying them :?

That's why some maids prefer to work for ang mo families. More freedom plus the opportunity to hook up with the employer and his friends. My ang mo friend who has an ang mo husband was so upset with her maid when she paraded herself in skimpy clothes when they were having a party with their angmo friends.

[peapot]

i agree to the idea of having maids coming into our house to work from Monday to Friday at fixed hours, like 8 to 5 or 9 to 6pm. Then we won’t have to see their face much. They can stay outside in hostels provided by the most wonderful maid agencies or the gov’t bodies. On Sat and Sun it’s up to them whether they want to work part time or continue with the same employer again. This way we have our privacy and they can have their off day. Since maid agencies make so much money from employers, they should be responsible for providing the accomodation.


And what happen to them over the weekends will not be employer’s problem as the maid will now be consider only as our "part time" maid. The agencies will be responsible for them. Turn the table around. Ha…Yahoo!!!

Don’t think my plan will ever come true!

[verykiasu2010]

peapot:

i agree to the idea of having maids coming into our house to work from Monday to Friday at fixed hours, like 8 to 5 or 9 to 6pm. Then we won't have to see their face much. They can stay outside in hostels provided by the most wonderful maid agencies or the gov't bodies. On Sat and Sun it's up to them whether they want to work part time or continue with the same employer again. This way we have our privacy and they can have their off day. Since maid agencies make so much money from employers, they should be responsible for providing the accomodation.


And what happen to them over the weekends will not be employer's problem as the maid will now be consider only as our \"part time\" maid. The agencies will be responsible for them. Turn the table around. Ha....Yahoo!!!

Don't think my plan will ever come true!

in this case, there is hope for my business proposal to set up a household services company \"Maids on Wheels\"....you be the first customer okay ?

[gajidouma]

Every month, on average, a Singapore maid will get:


- Basic salary: SGD400-500/month; (Now the bar may be raised again soon.)

- Free decent accommodation: SGD700/month (one HDB room rental market rate)

- Free Food: SGD300.00/months

- Free toilette supplies, free utilities: SGD100/month

- Free medical checkup regularly, free doctor seeing/medicine, free insurance: SGD50/month?

- Salary increment every one or two years guaranteed; (in recent few years, the salary hike was unheard of before.)

- Bonus at end of service contract at most cases;

- Free return tickets and paid home leave at least every two years;

- Not to mention the free gifts, birthday/new year hong bao, family trips/outings we brought our maid along...

- the list goes on ... (additions are welcome)

Who says maid is earning \"tiny teeny peanuts\" here in Signapore?? Please do the calculation above again! Look at the PACKAGE as a whole!! Does our new poly grads boys get all of the above? Do our poor old aunties/uncles working at food courts have these?? are all your own people well taken care of? Who will pity those FTWM or FTHM who work around the clock with no helping hands, Monday to Sunday without enough rest themselves??? MINISTRY OF MAID????!!!!

Maids are overworked, ha! All maids? Are you sure? Everyday when I came home from work late at night with no OT pay, my maid (Thank God, that's my ex-maid) greeted me wearing facial mask she made for herself and looked far more energetic than me. (She took afternoon naps after kids goes to school in the afternoon.) Example, when mopping floors, she was taking her own sweet time and singing while mopping. Excuse me, can I sing while I am working in the office please? The tensity and flexibility of being a homemaker, got it?

So, who is toiling here??? What about our human right as a worker? We make sure my maid gets enough rest (and most of them did), bonus, salary increment.... and who is there to care about our welfare?

Someone argues our boss never gives a dxxx of what we do over after work. Hellooooooo~~~~ If I live in with my boss's family, she/he will surely start to care. Please understand that for live-in maids and bosses, the employment relationship is so special where employers shoulder huge responsibility (Security bond, repatriation cost....) which does not exist else where.... please do not do the apple-and-pear comparison any more. Policy of uniformity is so unjustified here. Please note my boss is not \"held ransom\" for my wrong doings outside office hours, right?

I am not against letting maid having enough rest at all, don't get me wrong. But your Noble Highness'es, please do a better homework and try come out better policy package which is more sensible and well-balanced.

Please do NOT pass all the potential problems to us and force it down our throats, while you successfully saved your \"face\" (congratulations!) and happily collecting levies and doing almost nothing to help us!

A big thank you indeed! :gloomy:

[Power Puff]

[quote=\"gajidouma\"]


Maids are overworked, ha! All maids? Are you sure? Everyday when I came home from work late at night with no OT pay, my maid (Thank God, that's my ex-maid) greeted me wearing facial mask she made for herself and looked far more energetic than me.

:rotflmao:

My maid does not have that kind of luxury at the moment coz I'm on leave and watching her like a hawk. After dinner I take care of my kids. We don't disturb her sleep coz we want her to rest and be alert the next day. But when I return to work...dunno how I can remain alert the whole day and continue the night watch routine :faint:

[1amber]

Power Puff:

gajidouma:

Maids are overworked, ha! All maids? Are you sure? Everyday when I came home from work late at night with no OT pay, my maid (Thank God, that's my ex-maid) greeted me wearing facial mask she made for herself and looked far more energetic than me.

:rotflmao:

My maid does not have that kind of luxury at the moment coz I'm on leave and watching her like a hawk. After dinner I take care of my kids. We don't disturb her sleep coz we want her to rest and be alert the next day. But when I return to work...dunno how I can remain alert the whole day and continue the night watch routine :faint:

When you are on leave you watch her like a hawk...when you go back to work she will turn into a wild swan.

[icemochi]

[quote="gajidouma"]

good breakdown of the costs of a maid.

sunday is typical the day the employer gets have a feel if the maid is worth all these additional costs.

now that MOM is taking away this day, employer will be harder to trust the maid. the maid gain a day off but is very difficult to win the warmth of the employer’s family.

Hongkong has just a law and people did adapt to it. But mostly is a very cold employer-maid relationship. Sg might just develop to that.