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Maid asks other employers how much food allowance they give their helpers when they go on holiday

Maid given a long & detailed list of 15 tasks to do in the morning, 11 tasks in the afternoon and 7 in the evening

Maid says her employer installed CCTVs in her room, makes her handwash even her bedsheets, and only gives her dinner

‘Do our helpers think we’re rich?’ — Employers share their financial burdens after being asked for salary advance by their maid

Maid says she’s ‘tired, pressured and sleepless’ after her employers shifted into a house double the size, made her pack over 80 boxes and was not even given food

Maid caught on CCTV grabbing employer’s baby’s hair to pull her head up and hitting her, but denied mistreating the child

Maid says she does not have an off day for the first 6 months of employment; asks if she should cut her hair by herself

Maid says her employer and their sister hit her and squeezed her arms ‘until they became blue black’

Maid asks for help because her employer promised to transfer her to another employer, but now refuses, wants to send her back home instead

Maid cries because she didn’t have any privacy, rest day, and enough sleep, says she had to ‘surrender all personal belongings except watch’