All About Full-Time Maids

[ChiefKiasu]

lifestylelink:

...I have a myanmar maid, I like to add comment tha they have poor manners. Not sure if it relates to their poor communication.


My existing maid is leaving soon and likely to get another one from Myanmar. One potential candidate available and she can speak Chinese.

We've had a myanmar maid before too, I thought she was ok in terms of manners. Our greatest problem was communication - she could hardly understand our English despite being a \"university graduate\". We have to let her go although she was really hardworking. Guess you are lucky to find one that can communicate in Chinese.

[tamarind]

matrix0405:

This is a very good post. 3 mth baby also can slap; obviously something wrong in her mind. Glad to see you caught and got rid of her before more trouble. Can you let us know what is the model of the camera you used to catch that footage?

I am not the employer of the maid. My blog contains a list of maids and their employer's comments. Any employer can email me their stories at [email protected].

You can post a comment at the page to ask about the model.

http://singaporemaidcomments.blogspot.com/

[lifestylelink]

ChiefKiasu:

lifestylelink:

...I have a myanmar maid, I like to add comment tha they have poor manners. Not sure if it relates to their poor communication.


My existing maid is leaving soon and likely to get another one from Myanmar. One potential candidate available and she can speak Chinese.

We've had a myanmar maid before too, I thought she was ok in terms of manners. Our greatest problem was communication - she could hardly understand our English despite being a \"university graduate\". We have to let her go although she was really hardworking. Guess you are lucky to find one that can communicate in Chinese.

I think you are right. Because their English is poor, thats why their communication skill is poor. But I don't blame them because although they learn English in school, there is little exposure and no chance to practice. They hated the americans.

Anyway, I've interviewed my new maid yesterday, her Chinese quite good, think she just lacked confidence, very nervous when I asked her to speak in English. But she did well, when answering question. And best of all, she told me she likes children.

[winth]

Hi,


May I ask how I send my maid off successfully without any ill-feelings?

I have already paid maid agency the first 3 months up-front, but according to the contract, I will need to give the maid 14 days notice.

We plan to tell her that we want to terminate the contract on the 2.5 month. And that we won’t need her to work for the remaining 14 days although we have already paid the agency. And we need her to just pack her bag and leave on the same day.

Is this possible? Will the agency come back and say that we still need to pay or let her work for 14 days?

[lifestylelink]

winth:

Hi,


May I ask how I send my maid off successfully without any ill-feelings?

I have already paid maid agency the first 3 months up-front, but according to the contract, I will need to give the maid 14 days notice.

We plan to tell her that we want to terminate the contract on the 2.5 month. And that we won't need her to work for the remaining 14 days although we have already paid the agency. And we need her to just pack her bag and leave on the same day.

Is this possible? Will the agency come back and say that we still need to pay or let her work for 14 days?

I assume it is poor performance that you want her to go off. You can tell white lies if you don't want to hurt her feelings. Just say you have a change in mind and decided you will send the child to child care or something. The first 6-8 months, maid has to repay their debt, no salary because thats what they owe to the agency. I think you can ask the maid to leave immediately but you need to pay for her lodging, think it is $10 per day for at least one month till she finds a new employer. Also, if I am not mistaken, you do not get the money back, you simply lose out. The best is check with your agency, diff agency practice a little different.

[winth]

Hi lifestylelink,


Thanks for replying.
I don’t mind losing that 14 days which I have already paid for as long as she doesn’t hurt my boys when she knows about my plan to send her away. But agency won’t ask me to pay right?

So for maids on transfer, the usual practice is employer need to pay $10 per day for lodging?

[matrix0405]

You just need to pay for the govt levy, no need to pay for lodging.

[matrix0405]

Seems like you can do w/o a maid. Just get a partime cleaner and you can save some money and headache.

[lifestylelink]

I am not very certain, best to check with your agency. Honestly speaking, if your maid is not all that bad, maybe give her another chance, especially new maid who are inexperience. They may not know what their mistakes are, what your expectations are etc.


I will give my maid chances so long as it is not relating to abuse and theft. I will tell her the mistakes and what need to be change.

You can also check up the MOM website for some basic info.

http://www.mom.gov.sg/publish/momportal/en/communities/work_pass/foreign_domestic_workers.html

[matrix0405]

[Moderator's note: Topics merged.]


How strict are you with your maid, for items like having handphones, day-off, talking with neighbours' maids etc? Any bad experiences after allowing your maids to have handphones, dayoff ...?