After being in Singapore for the first time, a foreign domestic worker decided that this was not life for her and wanted to break her contract and go back home.
In an anonymous post to Facebook page FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the maid wrote that she had been in Singapore for almost four months. While she did not specify a reason for wanting to break her contract and return to the Philippines, she asked what she should do.
“should i give notice to my employer ?” the helper wrote in her post.
In the comments section, many other helpers urged her to be patient and added that if she was homesick, she should wait it out and push through as it was a huge decision to come overseas to work.
Replying to another comment, the maid wrote that both helpers and employers had the right to cancel their contract. She added that if employers did not like their maids, they would send them back to the agency. She added that the same was a helper’s right.
She wrote that she had a problem back home in the Philippines. Her employers were good to her but said that she did not have a choice and had to give up her work. She also wrote that her employers understood her decision.
Netizens who commented felt that she was wasting her employer’s time by coming to Singapore for just a few months before returning home.
An administrator who responded to her post said: “Unless u are ill treated, then Yes, u need to serve the standard 1 month termination notice or whatever notice period stated in your employment contract.
