Maid says, for 4 months, her employer asks her for 1.5hr massage every night until both her hands became stiff

A foreign domestic worker took to social media complaining that her employer would ask for a massage every night until both her hands became stiff.

In an anonymous post to Facebook page FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the maid wrote that she was with her employers for four months. Every night, “they asked me to massage them for one and half hours until my both hands turning stiff”, the helper wrote.

She added: “During massage time my employer asked me to close the door and window. I felt tired of doing this every night”.

Based on her post alone, it is unclear what the gender of her employer was, or if the helper had to massage more than one person. In her post, she asked other helpers for advice on what to do.

Here’s what they said:

Most wrote that a massage was not part of domestic chores and that she should not be doing it in the first place. Others also asked for the age and gender of her employers. They said that if it were elderly female members of the family then exceptions could be made, but she should not be massaging male members of the family.

Last week, 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.

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