All About Full-Time Maids
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tamarind:
Tamarind, I am shocked at this maid's behaviour. Is there no redress for us aggrieved employers?
I just published this sad story about a maid who went crazy and cost the employer $10K medical fees :
http://singaporemaidcomments.blogspot.com/2009/12/batac-marivic-filipino.html -
Andaiz,
don’t think employers can avoid such risks unless we don’t hire at all or MOM decides to do something to help us, which is don’t know when??
This filipino maid incident reinforce my belief that filipino maids will not be under my consideration for hire. I also agree with my friend that they don’t deserve higher salary than other nationality.
The good filipino maids will just finish 2 years contract and go to Nordic countries to work. I don’t have any friends who has filipino maids who work 4 years or more for them. -
Andaiz:
Tamarind, I am shocked at this maid's behaviour. Is there no redress for us aggrieved employers?tamarind:
I just published this sad story about a maid who went crazy and cost the employer $10K medical fees :
http://singaporemaidcomments.blogspot.com/2009/12/batac-marivic-filipino.html
The fact is that there is NO redress for aggrieved employers. Count ourselves lucky when our family members are unharmed.
We have all heard of many cases of maids abusing and killing babies, kids and elderly right ? Have we heard of any maid being executed ? The last case was Flor Contemplacion, executed in 1995 for murdering her employer's son. Since then, I don't remember that there were any maids being executed, they could always find some reasons like employers abused them blah blah blah and they get away with life sentences. -
tamarind:
Funny that you mentioned the Flor Contemplacion case. In my recent search for a maid, my first choice's hubby refused to let her come over coz he thinks that SG is a country where they hang maids! And this is not the first case I've heard of this being an excuse...
We have all heard of many cases of maids abusing and killing babies, kids and elderly right ? Have we heard of any maid being executed ? The last case was Flor Contemplacion, executed in 1995 for murdering her employer's son. Since then, I don't remember that there were any maids being executed.
Still if this is the way MOM safeguards the helpers (and the PH embassy), we are truly at their mercy.
yep, peapot, the only way is to NOT have a helper. I'm just thinking when can I do that! -
Hi Andaiz,
I suppose you have a new helper now? How’s the new maid? Good? -
tamarind:
Since then, I don't remember that there were any maids being executed, they could always find some reasons like employers abused them blah blah blah and they get away with life sentences.
Maids get away because they have the embassy to support them. For any serious case, the embassies will exert pressure to ensure these maids, their citizens, get to go back to their home country, instead of being punished in Singapore. Nothing wrong with that because the embassies are protecting their own citizens. But for the poor Singaporeans who suffered or died in the hands of these maids,
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That's why I say our gahmen should do something to protect our interests.
A win win situation not one sided victory
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peapot:
Peapot, thanks. New helper here for over a week. Smart cookie learns fast but I believe she's got bigger ambitions - which may not be a bad thing but will probably have to change after contract ends lo!Hi Andaiz,
I suppose you have a new helper now? How's the new maid? Good? So far, a bit of smart alecky (so gotta rein her in but not too tightly), doesn't ask questions 
, everything oso \"okay\" :roll: ...smiles a lot (which is an improvement from HRH's black face 
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Like I posted earlier, in her previous job in Jordan, she had to take care of the children so she tends to raise her voice a notch when she speaks to them...I firmly told her not to do so...claims she didn't but I told her I distinctly heard her...so please don't do it again. End of discussion! -
kiasimom:
our gahmen, dear sista, is busy protecting the interests of our retirees with their CPF withdrawals and Mandating them not to squander the money; plus bettering the interest of young families through 4 month paid maternity plus all other baby bonus $$$ payouts.That's why I say our gahmen should do something to protect our interests.
Incidentally, just wondering if they open up for comments and input to the new budget, whether there'd be any special cat for domestic helpers' employers :?
It's Christmas afterall, I'm entitled to some day-dreaming eh? -
Andaiz:
our gahmen, dear sista, is busy protecting the interests of our retirees with their CPF withdrawals and Mandating them not to squander the money; plus bettering the interest of young families through4 month pay...kiasimom:
That's why I say our gahmen should do something to protect our interests.
Incidentally, just wondering if they open up for comments and input to the new budget, whether there'd be any special cat for domestic helpers' employers :?
It's Christmas afterall, I'm entitled to some day-dreaming eh?
The gahmen still do not understand that how important a good maid is to a full time working mommy, and that the falling birth rate is directly related to the difficulty of finding a good maid.
Many women do not dare to employ maids, and so they choose not to have babies, or only have one baby.
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