http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110211-263052.html
"Most of the runaway maids were Indonesians, according to statistics from the Philippine and Indonesian embassies, and the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home), a charity that runs a shelter for migrant workers.
The Indonesian Embassy said about 2,530 runaway maids sought refuge at the embassy last year, up from around 2,030 in 2009. In the first five weeks of this year, another 230 women turned up.
At the Philippines Embassy, the number fell slightly from 630 in 2009 to around 570 last year"
dieu>> If maids are made to manage their own recruitment fees, they would be compelled to hold on to their jobs to pay their creditors back home lest their families are harassed if they fail to do so.
They would also have the satisfaction of receiving their full salary in hand even if it means having to send most of it home.
Employers too, would be spared forking out nine to 10 months’ salary upfront on top of having to pay their share of the recruitment fees to their agents and offering monthly levy to Ministry of Manpower.
Be it runaway to HOME or embassy, both organizations aware that their actions subverted the contract laws binding the maid ... pretend you're naive, unaware they helped put the employers at disadvantage.
MOM is not helping at all in such cases. Thus, indirectly turning HOME and embassies into legal bullies, targeting our hard earned money.
When maid waiting to be found and enjoying free F&B at HOME or embassy, you need a helper fast, I think MOM will allow you to hire a 2nd maid in the household with no concession till 1st maid's work permit is cancelled.
If you can afford the time and money to play with your maid, heard staying in embassy is like a prison so she'll surrender in weeks when embassy pressurize her. She has to ask her family to remit money to pay off the loan and buy her own airfare, in exchange for freedom. Of cos, some embassy staff will pressurize employers instead to repatriate maids at your cost. Do browse the internet and read others' experience. We need to protect ourselves, nobody will help us.... u know?
If maid has her own passport and money, she could be gone, neither at agent, HOME or embassy. Modern maids are not poor, they have money, friends or relatives in Spore to borrow money and escape home, their native land.
With the help of technology like mobile phone, all maids can contact each other and words of mouth somehow corrupted their naive little brain. From an innocent lady, she can turn in a scheming person in days. Heard at training centres and agencies, maids and their trainers exchanged tips to manage their Spore employers.
Then, there are some dump maids comparing themselves with their relatives who work here as Foreign Talents or Work Permit holder. Thought getting a better pay job is easy, just find an employer and show time!
"Most of the runaway maids were Indonesians, according to statistics from the Philippine and Indonesian embassies, and the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home), a charity that runs a shelter for migrant workers.
The Indonesian Embassy said about 2,530 runaway maids sought refuge at the embassy last year, up from around 2,030 in 2009. In the first five weeks of this year, another 230 women turned up.
At the Philippines Embassy, the number fell slightly from 630 in 2009 to around 570 last year"
dieu>> If maids are made to manage their own recruitment fees, they would be compelled to hold on to their jobs to pay their creditors back home lest their families are harassed if they fail to do so.
They would also have the satisfaction of receiving their full salary in hand even if it means having to send most of it home.
Employers too, would be spared forking out nine to 10 months’ salary upfront on top of having to pay their share of the recruitment fees to their agents and offering monthly levy to Ministry of Manpower.
Be it runaway to HOME or embassy, both organizations aware that their actions subverted the contract laws binding the maid ... pretend you're naive, unaware they helped put the employers at disadvantage.
MOM is not helping at all in such cases. Thus, indirectly turning HOME and embassies into legal bullies, targeting our hard earned money.
When maid waiting to be found and enjoying free F&B at HOME or embassy, you need a helper fast, I think MOM will allow you to hire a 2nd maid in the household with no concession till 1st maid's work permit is cancelled.
If you can afford the time and money to play with your maid, heard staying in embassy is like a prison so she'll surrender in weeks when embassy pressurize her. She has to ask her family to remit money to pay off the loan and buy her own airfare, in exchange for freedom. Of cos, some embassy staff will pressurize employers instead to repatriate maids at your cost. Do browse the internet and read others' experience. We need to protect ourselves, nobody will help us.... u know?
If maid has her own passport and money, she could be gone, neither at agent, HOME or embassy. Modern maids are not poor, they have money, friends or relatives in Spore to borrow money and escape home, their native land.
With the help of technology like mobile phone, all maids can contact each other and words of mouth somehow corrupted their naive little brain. From an innocent lady, she can turn in a scheming person in days. Heard at training centres and agencies, maids and their trainers exchanged tips to manage their Spore employers.
Then, there are some dump maids comparing themselves with their relatives who work here as Foreign Talents or Work Permit holder. Thought getting a better pay job is easy, just find an employer and show time!
