All About Full-Time Maids

[Pris.011283tang]

i pity the employer cause mom say theres nothing they can do

[znzyzyzx]

Pris.tang:

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/what_bugs_me/1097108/

employers_horror_she_has_to_bear_medical_expenses_after.html


So what do u all think of this agency fault?

I think the maid agency should be the one responsible for it. How can MOM just wash hand like that ?

Anyway, even if need to send back, only need to send the maid. She din employ the baby, why must pay for the baby as well ?

These people, all out to make maid employers PAP, they think we all open bank ?

[shine_fs]

My friend was there…


That morning, the maid told the agency that she was not well and went to the toilet.
Then in the afternoon the maid gave birth in the agency…the ambulance was called and sent both the mother and baby to the hospital.

I don’t think the maid agency know the maid is pregnant too.

Feel bad for the employer…why should she pay for the loophole…should fight against the agency or the clinic who gave wrong medical report…

[POA Teacher]

Was the maid a transfer maid? If so, she may have gotten impregnated here. Agency would not necessarily know. She was in employer’s house for THREE months, but employer did not notice that she was pregnant. So similarly agent wouldn’t have noticed either. … So it’s just employer’s rotten luck in choosing such a transfer maid.


If the maid was a brand new arrival, then the fault is the doc’s for not detecting the pregnancy. If her pregnancy wasn’t obvious, agent also wouldn’t know.

Btw, I’m not working for any maid agency or in any way connected to them.
To me they are blood-suckers.

[znzyzyzx]

POA Teacher:

Was the maid a transfer maid? If so, she may have gotten impregnated here. Agency would not necessarily know. She was in employer's house for THREE months, but employer did not notice that she was pregnant. So similarly agent wouldn't have noticed either. ..... So it's just employer's rotten luck in choosing such a transfer maid.


If the maid was a brand new arrival, then the fault is the doc's for not detecting the pregnancy. If her pregnancy wasn't obvious, agent also wouldn't know.

Btw, I'm not working for any maid agency or in any way connected to them.
To me they are blood-suckers.

Even if transfer maid, would have done medical checkup maximum 6 months ago, so how can dont know , unless the baby is pre-matured, less than 6 months.

[hquek]

moral of the story. When a maid first come to our house, go to a trusted doctor to run some tests. recall a friend employed a maid to care of her baby. Somehow they got to know she was actually hep C positive…sent her back in a hurry.


My sympathies with the employer. Piangz. 3 months in the house and can come up with such situation.

[hquek]

I am okay with employers paying for general medical expenses (cold, flu, accidents, whatever), but I am dead against employers having to bear expenses that are within the control of the maid (childbirth/after effects of abortion etc).


It’s ridiculous that we have to trust the maid (remember the 1 day off?) to do the right thing, but end up have to ‘kio sai’ if they get themselves pregnant. Haiz, supposed to treat them like adults if nothing goes wrong, else the employer has to be the adult when the maids don’t behave like one.

[POA Teacher]

znzyzyzx:

Even if transfer maid, would have done medical checkup maximum 6 months ago, so how can dont know , unless the baby is pre-matured, less than 6 months.

Even so, since the doc who was supposed to do the examination gave her a clean bill, how's the agent to know? Unless the agent faked a medical report on his own? How likely is that?

[Pris.011283tang]

The employer should counter sue the agency and the doc to make them pay for thier mistake simple, first when the reach medical check up is given how come not detected??

[hquek]

true, but the thing is that most employers are normal folks without the deep pockets to hire lawyers to sue. I’m sure that’s why hospitals etc will go straight to the employer to get the money. easy mah.