A foreign domestic worker got another friend of hers to post on social media asking others for help with her predicament. Her employer, who previously promised to transfer her instead of sending her back home, went back on their word, saying that they were “not used to transfer(ring) maids”.
In her post on Monday (Aug 22), the helper had been working for three years with her current employers. After her two-year contract ended, she asked her employers for a transfer, but they asked her to stay for another year as they were not able to find a new helper during the Covid-19 pandemic. She then agreed to stay another year on the condition that they transfer her to another employer after the three years were up.
However, at the end of the three-year period, the helper’s employer said they were “not used to transfer(ring) maids if they don’t want to work with them just directly send back to home country”.
In her post, the helper’s friend asked others if the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) or the Centre for Domestic Employees (CDE) would be able to help.
Here’s what others said:
Earlier this month, another foreign domestic worker wrote in a Facebook post that she felt “uncomfortable and humiliated” by the way her employer’s 14-year-old son treated her for over two years.
In an anonymous Facebook post to FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the helper wrote that she worked for 6 years with her current family and everything was okay except for the way that the teenager treated her.
She said that he would always look at her in a negative light, accusing her of stealing his belongings and eating his food. In her post, the helper wrote that even if nothing was missing, he would accuse her of having taken it anyway, even though she did not.
The last straw came when the 14-year-old started spitting on the food in the fridge so that the helper would not be able to eat it.
Despite the maid communicating this to her employer, she added that nothing had changed about the teen’s behaviour.
“I feel uncomfortable and humiliated, I don’t know what should I do right now, everyday facing the person that never respect (me)”, the helper wrote.
Though she wanted to leave the family because of the teenager’s poor behaviour toward her, she wrote that she loved the two younger children that she cared for since they were babies.
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