I am thinking... If I shd offer home leave to my current maid so she can go settle her family affairs and come back.. She's worked for me for abt 7mths. But at the back of my mind, I'm wondering if this is a good move cos she will only become bolder in her demands.
Right from the start, we raised her salary to $420 a month vs $360 + $20 (for no off days). I also gave her the use of hp limiting it to only after work hours.
1. She lied and insisted she doesn't, but we know she used her phone even during working hours. Altho I close one eye to her using the phone in the daytime, I don't like her lying.
2. In Mar, after abt 2 months of working for us, she approached me to ask if she could borrow $$ to send back cos her dotter needed to buy school materials. Although she was still on loan, we gave in to her, telling her this was an exception not to be repeated.
3. Then once abt 4mths back she requested for an off day cos she said she needed to collect her barang barang from her friend who's going to leave S'pore.
Hubby and I restructured her request. We told her we can't let her take leave cos no one was able to take care of the kids. But we would fetch her to her friend's place so she's able to collect her barang barang from her friends. She agreed.
4. Then abt 1+ mths back, she asked to take leave again. She said she wanted to go shopping, and she specified a particular date to take leave. This never happened cos shortly after, she cried and told me of her family issues, and said she needed to go back.
I talked to her, trying to find out if the story is genuine, or if she simply wanted to get out of the contract and go home or go somewhere else to work.
I found it to be quite genuine. I tried to think it through with her and see with she has a solution to this problem. Then she remembered her friend who's now at Batam (the same one she collected her barang barang from), and she told me she had asked her if she could help (take care of her dotter).
I was quite excited over this plan. Cos it means she can continue working here, and she can even go visit her dotter more often. I told her if this worked out, I could let her take leave maybe once in 3 mth or so. Didn't work out.
5. So we started looking for a new maid.
6. Shortly after, this maid came and said her uncle is ok now to take care of her dotter. Just wanted money. So maybe if she could go back for a while, things will be ok. Which was when I told her, it's too late cos I have already found a new maid.
Until now.
Shd I let her take home leave?
8. The children likes her, but she's also very smart and used to bully my previous maid. She's good with cooking, but quite lazy and not thorough with housework. Sometimes she used wet wipes to wipe the table tops or to mop the floors. Once when I scolded her for not cleaning meimei probably, I suspect she purposely rubbed extra hard on meimei's face til it was red.
(But I had no proof).
How?