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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to the letter by Mr Chua Seng Huat, 'Rule penalising employers' (Oct 3).
I totally agree with Mr Chua and wish to stress again that the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) should consider a limit to the number of times a maid can change her employers within a certain period.
This is even more urgent now as MOM has a new rule prohibiting employers from recovering employment-related expenses from maids.
From my observations in recent years, there has been a rise in the number of maids who know how to exploit grey areas in search of a better employer or better employment, so isn't it fairer to employers to save them much money, time and trouble if MOM applies this rule to weed out maids who come to work in Singapore with a frivolous attitude?
By setting a limit on the number of times maids can change employers, maids who are not serious to work or are 'choosy' about their employers will think twice before they move.
Example of ruses maids use to get a transfer to another employer are: being lazy, talking back, telling lies and stealing.
After all, maids know they have nothing to lose, regardless of the number of times they change their employer.
It is time MOM reviewed its long-held pro-maid stand.
What was the case 20 years ago, when most maids were purportedly more naive, is no longer so. Maids carry mobile phones nowadays and are more informed about their 'rights'. They pick up clever ruses from other maids to use in search of a better employer.
Priscilla Poh (Ms)
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to the letter by Mr Chua Seng Huat, 'Rule penalising employers' (Oct 3).
I totally agree with Mr Chua and wish to stress again that the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) should consider a limit to the number of times a maid can change her employers within a certain period.
This is even more urgent now as MOM has a new rule prohibiting employers from recovering employment-related expenses from maids.
From my observations in recent years, there has been a rise in the number of maids who know how to exploit grey areas in search of a better employer or better employment, so isn't it fairer to employers to save them much money, time and trouble if MOM applies this rule to weed out maids who come to work in Singapore with a frivolous attitude?
By setting a limit on the number of times maids can change employers, maids who are not serious to work or are 'choosy' about their employers will think twice before they move.
Example of ruses maids use to get a transfer to another employer are: being lazy, talking back, telling lies and stealing.
After all, maids know they have nothing to lose, regardless of the number of times they change their employer.
It is time MOM reviewed its long-held pro-maid stand.
What was the case 20 years ago, when most maids were purportedly more naive, is no longer so. Maids carry mobile phones nowadays and are more informed about their 'rights'. They pick up clever ruses from other maids to use in search of a better employer.
Priscilla Poh (Ms)
