Maid to get weekly rest days
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Very Nice thread! I wonder why people stopped updating it?
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The reason why MOM insisted weekly off days and stayed behind the scene when agencies/embassies collalobated to jerk up salary is to make FDWs spend money in Spore.
FDWs can buy 3G mobiles, ‘rest’ at hotels, spend at pubs, etc… by doing all these, money remains in Spore. Smart move at our expenses!! You won’t believe nowadays, some FDWs so rich, can buy 2 mobiles and can spend $1000 just to chat on mobile (my sis Indonesian recently clocked this amount, thus was transferred out)!!
Anyway, I think spore has a lot of kind employers who don’t mind or can’t see the $$ they are wasting on FDWs. Most highly educated but had serious problem calculating costs and fairness, these people or employers looked purely at salary S$400-450/mth, they purposely forget to calculate levy, 3 meals, insurance, medical, placement fee, etc. They didn’t realised all these costs come from their own pockets … hahaha, sad human, hard to educate them unless they faced bad FDWs. Hope these high class or super kind people will have chance to be managed by FDWs soon!
With this group of stubborn good hearted and/or cash rich human beings, it becomes the reason why nobody wants to look at our miseries, the trouble a live-in fdw caused. -
Halimah implement this policy right after she won the elections. I spent a lot of time corresponding with MOM, providing feedback, interview and realised that they are serious abt implementing this policy. They are not asking for feedback, they are telling us to be mentally prepared. Knowing there is no hope in withdrawal of this policy, I write to her directly pleading her to give us time and implement this policy 2 yrs later, which is 2013. And so she did and officially announced this policy 9mths before the Dragon baby years starts. During Dragon year, everyone will still give birth regardless of such a unfavorable policy.
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my helper have been asking me to revise her contract. according to the recent MOM megazine for FDW, it was printed as we only need to give FDW 2 off day a month, and can exchange off day with $$. so now which is which? I am confuse.
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My understanding is that the weekly off is only applicable for contracts incepted effective 2013. The maid whom I took last weekend has only 1 off day a month but our arrangement is that she will be paid in lieu of.
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braverymom:
my helper have been asking me to revise her contract. according to the recent MOM megazine for FDW, it was printed as we only need to give FDW 2 off day a month, and can exchange off day with $$. so now which is which? I am confuse.
Your helper is smart and knows the market conditions! If u don't give in to her, she may threaten to quit in the end. -
The "new" FDW is also aware of the weekly rest days. My friend’s new Filippino maid supposed to arrive this month, now back out and she only wants to come in January.
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NY1969:
The rules do not change until January 2013 and it states that they are entitled to every Sunday off unless there is a MUTUAL agreement for them to be compensated. As far as I know there is nothing about 2 Sundays.braverymom:
my helper have been asking me to revise her contract. according to the recent MOM megazine for FDW, it was printed as we only need to give FDW 2 off day a month, and can exchange off day with $$. so now which is which? I am confuse.
Your helper is smart and knows the market conditions! If u don't give in to her, she may threaten to quit in the end. -
If my current maid is getting $450 with 1 off day. What would be a reasonable pay package when I renew her contract next year? Is it a norm to offer $500 with every Sunday off? So if she does not go for her Sunday off, I will have to pay her about $20 per Sun? That sounds a lot of $$$ to me.
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Dawnie:
If my current maid is getting $450 with 1 off day. What would be a reasonable pay package when I renew her contract next year? Is it a norm to offer $500 with every Sunday off? So if she does not go for her Sunday off, I will have to pay her about $20 per Sun? That sounds a lot of $$$ to me.
The calculation is that you divide her salary by 23 for amount that you have to pay her for each Sunday. So if you pay her $500 you will have to give her $22 for each Sunday which would mean if she continues with 1 Sunday off you would be paying her just under $570 a month.
If you don't need her on Sunday but she doesn't want to take the day off, you can try to tell her she can stay at home and rest (assuming she has her own room)
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