Dec 24, 2008
I AM an employer of a foreign maid. The agreement signed between the employer and maid and the agreement signed between the employer and the agency provide protection for the maid and the employment agency.
However, who protects the employer?
For instance, the agreements state that the employer must hire the maid for at least one month before he can change maids.
Otherwise, the employer must pay the agency the equivalent of a month's salary of the maid.
Another condition stipulates that the employer must bear the cost of the maid's food and lodging when he sends the maid back to the agency for a transfer.
Is this a fair condition?
Why is there no protection for the employer?
For instance, should the employer be liable in cases where the transfer is triggered off by the maid and not the employer?
Why must the employer pay a month's worth of the maid's salary to the agency as well as the maid's food and lodgings in such a situation?
The current agreements are unfair to employers and the Government should consider protecting employers as much as it protects the agencies and the maids.
Loke Kok Wai
[What a whiny letter! Full of self-righteous pettiness. How much is a maid's salary? How much food are you going to pay for? If it is unfair, don't get a maid. If you get a maid, you have to provide for them because they have left their home, family and country to try to work for you. They are not things or animals. Don't want just throw away or send to SPCA and forget about them. Their monthly salary is already laughable. Their working hours incredible. Not all of them can take it. It's the cost of hiring a maid. ]
I AM an employer of a foreign maid. The agreement signed between the employer and maid and the agreement signed between the employer and the agency provide protection for the maid and the employment agency.
However, who protects the employer?
For instance, the agreements state that the employer must hire the maid for at least one month before he can change maids.
Otherwise, the employer must pay the agency the equivalent of a month's salary of the maid.
Another condition stipulates that the employer must bear the cost of the maid's food and lodging when he sends the maid back to the agency for a transfer.
Is this a fair condition?
Why is there no protection for the employer?
For instance, should the employer be liable in cases where the transfer is triggered off by the maid and not the employer?
Why must the employer pay a month's worth of the maid's salary to the agency as well as the maid's food and lodgings in such a situation?
The current agreements are unfair to employers and the Government should consider protecting employers as much as it protects the agencies and the maids.
Loke Kok Wai
[What a whiny letter! Full of self-righteous pettiness. How much is a maid's salary? How much food are you going to pay for? If it is unfair, don't get a maid. If you get a maid, you have to provide for them because they have left their home, family and country to try to work for you. They are not things or animals. Don't want just throw away or send to SPCA and forget about them. Their monthly salary is already laughable. Their working hours incredible. Not all of them can take it. It's the cost of hiring a maid. ]
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