Maid asks if her employer must still pay for her salary & food when they go on their 2-week holiday

A foreign domestic worker left alone at home while her employers went on holiday asked if they need to pay for her food and salary.

In an anonymous post to popular page FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the maid wrote that her employer was going out of the country on holiday for two weeks. She added that she was left alone at home.

In her post on Wednesday (Sept 21), the helper asked if her employers were the ones who had to give her a food allowance. She also asked if she would still be paid for the two weeks she was left alone in the house.

Within two days, her post garnered over 100 reactions and more than 80 comments.

Here’s what other helpers said:

Earlier this month, a foreign domestic helper who did not wish to go with her employers on their vacation to Malaysia asked if she could decline to join them on the trip.

In an anonymous post to Facebook page FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the helper wrote: “Hello! Is it mandatory or compulsory or required for the helper that when Employer having vacay out of the country like Malaysia to go with them?”

“What if I dont want.. Can I say no?” she asked.

Her post, on Sept 2, was not the first of its kind, with other helpers also having asked similar questions before. Responding to her post, other maids said that she should not be as picky and should be more flexible. They also noted that she should try communicating with them and explain a valid reason for not wanting to go.

Maid says she doesn’t want to go with her employers on holiday to Malaysia, asks ‘Can I say no?’