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88freelife:
phtthp:



Make sure that you see someone escort her board the plane fly back home.

Thanks all for advice.

Once she passes the immigration booth, she will be on her own, for 1~2hrs before she board the plane.
There's no way to ensure someone escort her board the plane.

Once she's past the immigration booth, :rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah:

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phtthp:


Make sure that you see someone escort her board the plane fly back home.
Thanks all for advice.

Once she passes the immigration booth, she will be on her own, for 1~2hrs before she board the plane.
There's no way to ensure someone escort her board the plane.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1267103https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1267103Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:51:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:37:27 GMT]]>Hi 88freelife,


Pls change your main door key, gate key.
In case she had duplicated them before last time.

We don’t want her to get someone to harm yr family (you or yr kids), if she ever return to SG one day.

Make sure that you see someone escort her board the plane fly back home.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266944https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266944Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:37:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:31:25 GMT]]>Hi 88freelife,

Make sure there is another adult with you tomorrow… just in case…

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266939https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266939Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:31:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:25:37 GMT]]>My opinion:

Tell her that her WP has been cancelled.
But cancel after she’s gone off

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266899https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266899Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:25:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:10:01 GMT]]>

Hiaweh:
i just sent my maid back 3 weeks ago for breach of trust. I didn't compensate her but I did write down all the things that she did which amounts to breach of trust. I passed it to my agent and agent said she will ask her to countersign that she acknowledge. My agent helped me to send her to airport. I didn't inform her that I am sending her home to prevent her from making a scene in my house. I let the agent handle that part.

I am sending her to airport tmr morning 9am. Will inform her about 1 hour before that. After sending her, I will go to police & inform MOM the next day.

I couldnt let her agent handle becos i confirmed another new maid via another agency. I doubt the old agent will help me (Anyway she advocates reprimanding the maid & transfer her).

I have 7 videos showing her stealing $ from my wallet everyday. They are very clear and her face is recognisable in most of the videos.

With these hard evidences, do I still need the agent to act as witness?

Do I need her to sign a confession? If so, is it in English or Bahasa Indon? If English, she doesnt understand. If Indon, I don't understand.
So how?

For your info, I was told by an agent not to cancel the wp until she board the plane becos if something happens to her btw time wp was cancelled - to the time she board the plane, employer is liable & yet not covered under insurance as coverage ceased upon wp cancellation.
Agent said there was a similar case reported last week.
If anyone has this info about this news, plse post here.

I wish this whole event will pass thru smoothly tmr. Hopefully she won't become hysterical & do foolish thing.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266885https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266885Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:10:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:31:44 GMT]]>i just sent my maid back 3 weeks ago for breach of trust. I didn’t compensate her but I did write down all the things that she did which amounts to breach of trust. I passed it to my agent and agent said she will ask her to countersign that she acknowledge. My agent helped me to send her to airport. I didn’t inform her that I am sending her home to prevent her from making a scene in my house. I let the agent handle that part.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266020https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1266020Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:31:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:54:15 GMT]]>Depends if you are generous.


Yes, she did sign a document

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1265930https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1265930Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:54:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:22:21 GMT]]>Since stealing is a breach of contract, do I have compensate her for any notice-in-lieu?


Did you ask her to sign any document before she leaves?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264467https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264467Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:22:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Sat, 12 Apr 2014 05:26:15 GMT]]>Sorry, I meant the neighbours’ maids couldn’t see her the next day and didn’t dare to ask me, but asked the maintenance staff to ask instead.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264368https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264368Sat, 12 Apr 2014 05:26:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Sat, 12 Apr 2014 05:23:56 GMT]]>I think it is the least of your concern how your maid reaches home. She is "rich" enough to know what to do, given she had helped herself with additional pay.


I was so disappointed with my helper that I didn’t want to pay for her excess luggage, n just let her throw it away. I had allowed her to keep the money that was in her wallet.

Yes, it was packed the bag and straight to airport! No time, to contact anyone. Told her, if she doesn’t go and board the plane, next stop is the police station. Even the neighbours’ maids didn’t dare to ask him but asked someone else to ask me.

If only your maid knows that you care and concern about her well-being, she wouldn’t have done this.

Sorry, sometimes we have to firm in things or we will go nuts thinking about this or that.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264362https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264362Sat, 12 Apr 2014 05:23:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Sat, 12 Apr 2014 03:41:57 GMT]]>Read from other threads that to send a bad maid home, better give her short notice (1hr), see her pack and send her to airport with passport & immigration letter.


With such short notice, how can she inform her family to fetch her especially her home is in the village and may take hours to her local airport.

What if her arrival time is late and she has no where to stay for the night?

Appreciate advice.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264306https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1264306Sat, 12 Apr 2014 03:41:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:10:55 GMT]]>I had sent the maid home directly, then made the police report as I did not want her to be in the house any longer. Then, wrote to MOM requested that she be blacklisted, by attaching a copy of police report.


If the police doesn’t charge the maid, employer is still responsible for the maid as long as they are in Sg. This may mean still staying in the house.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263926https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263926Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:10:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:10:06 GMT]]>Why don’t you make a police report first? Maybe you don’t even have to send her back yourself, the gahman will do it for you if she’s convicted.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263853https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263853Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:10:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:02:47 GMT]]>

gumiho:
Report her to police so that MOM can blacklist her from coming back to Singapore to work.

I strongly do not agree for you to send her back to agent and her country of origin.
Firstly, Maid agency doesn't care about the well being of a maid, their main intention are to make monies and they are more than happy to transfer her out so that they can earn more agency fee and maid loan. By doing so, you are indirectly causing her next employer to be a victim.
Secondly, if you send her back anytime she can buy an air tix and fly back to Singapore. And once again as I had mentioned you are causing her new employer to be a victim. \"Kindness beget kindness\"

Don't expect them to change. \"Leopard doesn't change its spots.\"
:goodpost:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263852https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263852Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:02:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:34:29 GMT]]>

plc:
We had made arrangement on our own without telling the agent to send her off (she wasn't aware, until the time, we told her to pack up, kept apologizing!) then made police report with the remittance slips as evidence, and wrote to MOM requesting that she be blacklisted (attach the police report).

May I know did you send her home or send her to police?

Can I still make police report after sending her home?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263848https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263848Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:34:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:26:47 GMT]]>After hearing all your comments, I know what to do.


If I won’t consider letting her finish her contract in my household, then I shouldn’t let her have a chance of working for another prospective employer.

Maybe I can send her back first.
Then write to MOM together to blacklist her (with the videos evidence).
I think maids cannot anyhow change their names becos the new system identify their thumbprints.

Thanks all for your comments.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263842https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263842Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:26:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:15:30 GMT]]>I had the same problem, but no video evidence of stealing, just remittance slips of more than $10k, and deducting all the remittances that I was aware of, she had helped herself to my wallet or even my children’s savings as well.


1) You have the evidence, so most likely police will take her. Just have to make do without a helper. If you worry about her family, who would worry about yours?

2) Sending to agent - problem will be passed to another employer, as the agent doesn’t care. They are out to make money, with an "experienced maid". When I checked MOM website, after finding the remittance slips, the employment history was about 6months, ie passing from 1 employer to another, which meant the agent had lied about her experience.

We had made arrangement on our own without telling the agent to send her off (she wasn’t aware, until the time, we told her to pack up, kept apologizing!) then made police report with the remittance slips as evidence, and wrote to MOM requesting that she be blacklisted (attach the police report). Just didn’t want to pass a dishonest helper to another family.

I do agree with all parents’ comments. Last, your maid maybe richer than you in her home country.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263709https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263709Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:15:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 07:33:52 GMT]]>You have the evidence. Very clear cut. Her "poor family"? How can you be sure that they r poor? All these maids will always make it seem they r very pitiful so that we will sympathise them. And that is one of the ways they can hold us hostage either by keeping them or letting them transfer to another employer.

I used to sympathize their family and children by giving them chances to change but like another poster mentioned "leopards never change their spots".
Go make the police report. Dishonesty should not be tolerated in any household especially so if there are young children .
Would you consider letting her finish her contract in yr household knowing that she is such dishonest person? How would you feel if you are the prospective employer finding out that she has been transferred due to dishonesty after you allow her to work in yr house?
Pls do not pass on these problematic maids to other people.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263679https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263679Fri, 11 Apr 2014 07:33:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:19:35 GMT]]>Thanks for comments.


I don’t meet criteria for 2nd maid.

I have a few videos clearly showing her stealing. Wonder will that ensure that the investigation is short & swift if I report her.

But I still undecided & not comfortable thinking about her poor family.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263578https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263578Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:19:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:35:24 GMT]]>Hi understand your concern of not able to have helper during the police case. But you maybe eligible for registering with 2 helpers if you have two children below the age of 18, or parent/parent-in-law over 60 living with you. Refer to link attached. If not, maybe there are ways for concession?


Dishonest helper is defintely a no no to all household. Imagine another person engage her again and entrust her with young children or sick elder. With such bad character I doubt she will do a good job.

Hope my info help you in any way. 🙂

http://ifaq.mom.gov.sg/CustomerPages/Th ... ID=3070497

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263541https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263541Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:35:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:21:52 GMT]]>Why are you even asking for our opinions?

The decision here is clear. You have clear cut evidence. You should report her to the police.
Being poor is not license to steal.
Do not keep her and allow this to continue, unless you really want to continue donating money to her.
Do not pass her to the agent, you will be abetting her to commit the same crime in the new employer’s house.
Do not send her home. She can easily come back, and commit the same crime in new employer’s house. Furthermore, she will be rewarded with a higher pay cos the agents will market her as "ex-Sin".

You should stop your misplaced sympathy, and do the necessary to stop her from repeating this in your home and other Singaporean homes.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263523https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263523Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:21:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Maid steals $ everyday. What should I do? on Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:03:35 GMT]]>Report her to police so that MOM can blacklist her from coming back to Singapore to work.

I strongly do not agree for you to send her back to agent and her country of origin.
Firstly, Maid agency doesn’t care about the well being of a maid, their main intention are to make monies and they are more than happy to transfer her out so that they can earn more agency fee and maid loan. By doing so, you are indirectly causing her next employer to be a victim.
Secondly, if you send her back anytime she can buy an air tix and fly back to Singapore. And once again as I had mentioned you are causing her new employer to be a victim."Kindness beget kindness"

Don’t expect them to change. "Leopard doesn’t change its spots."

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263508https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1263508Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:03:35 GMT