Hi mamas,


My new helper joined us for about 2 weeks now. I just brought her to the A&E and she is hospitalised for high blood pressure 255/130. She claims that she has no history of hypertension and is not medicated. As I’m typing this she is warded and I’ve already incurred about $3.5k so far, and the bill could end up being way more.

When I spoke to the agency they tried to insinuate that she worked too much and was not given sufficient rest. Luckily I have installed CCTV which recorded how light a workload she had. Claims she doesn’t not know how to cook and since joining me cooked just 3 meals (during the interview this wasn’t the case or I wouldn’t have hired her). I thus buy food and she eats the same food as us. Joined me to two weeks and thus far has not washed bathrooms and changed my linen! (I am giving her an adjustment period so while I’ve given her a schedule, I haven’t enforced it.)

Mamas, I am considering sending her back to the Philippines but I’ve paid for 4 weeks of quarantine (2 in Phil, 2 weeks here), and if I am getting a new helper I’ll likely have to pay that again for the new helper. If I transfer her I feel bad for her next employer. What should I do