Domestic Helpers

SINGAPORE: An employer who recently hired a helper from Hong Kong took to social media to share concerns about whether her maid could adjust to life here. In an anonymous post to a Facebook group for domestic helpers, the employer...

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic helper took to social media asking if she still needed to do work in her employer's house during the handover period. In an anonymous post to a Facebook group for domestic helpers, the maid explained that...

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic worker who took to social media asking if she also needed to clean the room and hang the clothes of her employer’s tenants, wrote to the Manpower Ministry for an answer as well. In a post...

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic helper who was new to Singapore asked if she could change employers after only two weeks. In an anonymous post to a Facebook group for domestic helpers, the maid wrote that she had only been with...

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic helper who did not want to work with her employers anymore asked if she could just leave even though they did not find a replacement for her. In an anonymous post to a Facebook group for...

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic worker took to social media to ask if she also needs to clean the room and hang the clothes of her employer's tenants as she was unsure of her scope of work. In her post to...

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic helper shared on social media that she had to sleep in a storeroom so 'narrow' that she could not stand up in it. In a Facebook group for domestic helpers, a netizen asked: "Hi. May I...

SINGAPORE: A maid took to social media complaining that her employer was forcing her to stay and work for them despite her wanting to transfer elsewhere. In an anonymous post to a Facebook group for domestic helpers, a maid asked...

SINGAPORE: In a Facebook group for foreign domestic helpers, a netizen asked a rather strange question regarding an affair with maid: May I check if an fdw having affair with married man, is it possible to report MOM? While the...

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic helper who was hired to care for a newborn was seen by her employers to be constantly talking on the phone, even while feeding the child. On average, the employer said that her maid's calls...