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<!-- story content : start -->'The maid ignored my appeal. The police could act only if there was a fatality.' <!-- story content : start -->MR TAN HO GIAN: 'Recently, I spotted a maid standing perilously on a stool in a fifth-floor apartment of a condominium, as she tried to slot a bamboo pole across the external frame of two open windows. Worried, I called out to her not to do it as it was dangerous. There was a possibility of her falling, and if the pole fell, it could endanger passers-by below. The maid ignored my appeal and carried on even after the condo management office told her to stop. Finally, I called the police, only to be given a classic Catch-22 reply: That the police could act only if there was a fatality.'

Ahbathen? *chey*​

 

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A woman balancing precariously on the window ledge of a fourth-floor flat at Bedok North Avenue 4. -- PHOTO: COURTESY OF ONG WEE LIANG
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I WAS shocked last Saturday morning when I saw a woman balancing precariously on the window ledge of a fourth- floor flat at Blk 94B, Bedok North Avenue 4, cleaning windows. This despite all the warnings to residents not to allow their maids or anyone to do so.
Home owners must be vigilant and ensure that their maids or cleaners from part-time cleaning agencies understand that such potentially fatal balancing acts do not occur.
Perhaps it is time to make the owners or occupiers of flats liable for such a practice if it is carried out by their maids; the same goes for cleaning agencies for their staff. The relevant authorities should also enact stricter rules and enforcement.
Ong Wee Liang

 

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Sir Ask me clean, I clean...No work, no money send home...No die one...lah...

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A woman balancing precariously on the window ledge of a fourth-floor flat at Bedok North Avenue 4. -- PHOTO: COURTESY OF ONG WEE LIANG
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I WAS shocked last Saturday morning when I saw a woman balancing precariously on the window ledge of a fourth- floor flat at Blk 94B, Bedok North Avenue 4, cleaning windows. This despite all the warnings to residents not to allow their maids or anyone to do so.
Home owners must be vigilant and ensure that their maids or cleaners from part-time cleaning agencies understand that such potentially fatal balancing acts do not occur.
Perhaps it is time to make the owners or occupiers of flats liable for such a practice if it is carried out by their maids; the same goes for cleaning agencies for their staff. The relevant authorities should also enact stricter rules and enforcement.
Ong Wee Liang