Latest changes implemented on employing of FDW by MOM

[peapot]

I totally agree with POA Teacher. Agents are just out to get profits and more profits!!! Employers not taken care of is nothing new. It will probably stay that way till maybe there’s no more maid in Singapore. Nothing will change.

[Hard Truth]

stsl:

I understand that maid usually pay agent around 8 - 9months of loan, if their salary is $450, that would be a minimum of $3600 excluding of agent fees of $488 from employers.

So now we now. Besides getting the agency fees from the employers, the maid agency also gets a cut from the maid loan that we pay in advance.

Now that they have lost the \"cut\" because Indo maid have to arrange for their own loans, the agency add back to the \"lost\" cut plus their agency fees to make up for the new agency fee of above $1000!!

Employers are certainly a daft lot..supposedly are better educated but easily ripped off my maid agencies.

[peapot]

It’s not that we are daft its because we don’t have database of maid who wants to work here. Nobody wants to pay extra and still get lousy maids. If gov’t were to step in to help us gather the database from the other country we can always arrange direct hire ourselves. It a simple procedure. We need the agent because they hold the database, that’s why they can hold us ransom.

[Hard Truth]

peapot:

It's not that we are daft its because we don't have database of maid who wants to work here. Nobody wants to pay extra and still get lousy maids. If gov't were to step in to help us gather the database from the other country we can always arrange direct hire ourselves. It a simple procedure. We need the agent because they hold the database, that's why they can hold us ransom.

What has the database of maids got to do with the profiteering attitude of the maid agents?

Don't think anybody has got a database of maids wishing to work here. Not even the govt.

Daft because we allow the maid agents to \"anyhow\" set a margin that they feel like, and daft because we do not do anything about it but just complain.

[peapot]

So what is your recommendation then?

[stsl]

But I don't think we can do much thing to make the agent lowering their fees and earn lesser profits? You mean we can really do something?

peapot:

So what is your recommendation then?

[Hard Truth]

peapot:

So what is your recommendation then?

Surely if you believe that Singaporeans are not daft, there should be many recommendations on what can be done isn't it?

[stsl]

But there must have \"somebody\" like or willing to hear our recommendations first, otherwise, no use.

Hard Truth:

peapot:

So what is your recommendation then?

Surely if you believe that Singaporeans are not daft, there should be many recommendations on what can be done isn't it?

[Hard Truth]

stsl:

But there must have \"somebody\" like or willing to hear our recommendations first, otherwise, no use.

Hard Truth:

[quote=\"peapot\"]So what is your recommendation then?

Surely if you believe that Singaporeans are not daft, there should be many recommendations on what can be done isn't it?

[/quote]Looks like we are now trying to trace to the source of the problem.
Who will this \"someone\" who has the power and influence to help maid employers?

[africatwin]

Hi Employers,

Another advisory from MOM, those who have requested for the slides, i will email to you. Thanks