Employer: Will you hire a helper sent back to the agency by their previous employer because she was unsuitable for their household?

“Helpers:
1) When you first come to Singapore, were you prepared or shocked to see that this country and the Employers here are fast paced?

Earlier this year, a foreign domestic helper who was abruptly sent back home without proper notice took to social media, saying she was not even paid.

In an anonymous post to a Facebook support group for domestic helpers and employers alike, the maid wrote that her employers released her the night before. She said they bought her a flight ticket back home and did not give her the proper month’s notice or pay her for that month.

Reading her post, others in the group asked her for the full story and if she did anything that pushed her employers to send her back so abruptly. Others also asked the maid to check her employment contract to confirm her notice period.

Maid says her employer did not give her 1 month’s notice or pay, took her to the airport and sent her back, did not even allow her to talk to immigration officers