A 24-year-old Filipino maid ran away after being with her employers for four months. In an anonymous post to Facebook group FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), her employers wrote that she ran away to HOME, the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics.
The employers added that she had been “very turned off most of the time when with us and cannot remember things or take instructions. She is 24 year old Filipino, yet cannot understand English well”.
In their post, they wrote that after running away two months ago, the maid had been posting on social media about her days off on Sundays instead of searching for another employer.
“We gave her the chance to stay on when MOM asked if would like to send her home immediately. But now it seems like she cannot find employment, we do not wish to send her back now after she had a fun time in Singapore”, her previous employer wrote. In their post, they said that they wanted the helper to work under another employer to experience what it was like to be working as a Foreign Domestic Worker (FDW).
“Where can I find an agency willing to take her, when the agency she came here with does not want her anymore? Do I have a choice to still send her back to the agency she came with regardless?”, her employer asked.
Netizens who commented on the post wrote that the employer should transfer the maid if not she would continue paying the levy. Others said that the maid did not deserve any help and that she should pay for her own ticket home.
Here’s what they said:
