Maid to get weekly rest days
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peapot:
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 ?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! -
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: -
[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: -
Power Puff:
When you are on leave you watch her like a hawk...when you go back to work she will turn into a wild swan.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:
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[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. -
i agreed with u ice mochi…weekdays the helper does nothing but laze aron u wont know if they clean the hse for u…only weekends then they show u how hardworking they r…
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Guess some places will be more crowded on weekends next year .. ...
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FDW employers have too much 'power'
Letter from Edmund Pooh 04:45 AM Mar 10, 2012
Singapore has long been seen as the \"training ground\" for first-time foreign domestic workers (FDWs) to gain working experience. When the employment contract ends in two years, they would usually leave for greener pastures.
This could be because FDWs are not given the basic labour right to choose their ideal employer through the option of a transfer when their contract ends.
I applaud the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) for the necessary, long overdue move to make our country competitive, with the mandatory weekly day off.
But the MOM could further enhance Singapore's competitiveness: Should the FDW not be comfortable working for her employer, she should be allowed to submit a termination letter with at least one month's notice.
During the notice period, the FDW should be allowed to look for a new employer, even without a letter of consent from her current employer, since she would have already given a written intention to change employer.
The MOM does not allow for this now because the current employer has too much \"power\".
This is further evident in my encounters as an employment agency boss with several FDWs who were seeking a transfer and had an employer lined up, a signed letter of consent from her current employer as well as an In-Principal of Approval (IPA) letter from the MOM.
The transfers were denied in the end because the current employer still had the legal right, according to the MOM, to cancel the FDW's work permit and repatriate her.
But why allow this to happen when the FDW has an IPA and a new employer willing to take over the responsibility immediately?
If a mandatory weekly day off would make us more competitive, as mentioned by Minister of State (Manpower) Tan Chuan-Jin, then legislating another basic labour right for FDWs would surely make us even more competitive.
http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC120310-0000020/FDW-employers-have-too-much-power
and read all the exchanges there .....
the industry seems to be \"controlled\" by a few agencies with strong lobby....just need to talk to some smaller agencies and you will understand why -
My reply to Mr Pooh’s letter, if employers didn’t have to pay upfront for maid loans, likely employers are more open to not have that much control over maids. I believe in HK employers don’t pay for their maids loans to go to HK to work.
Also those who disagreed to their maids transferring may be doing the would be employers a service as there may be something bad about the maid that the ex-employer don’t wish to happen to others. -
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