Tag: domestic helper

Abused Maids Should Use MOM’s System To Report Abusive Employers

The Ministry of Manpower has a “feedback” system which allows an employer to recommend that a worker not be employed here if s/he is undesirable or “bad”. I have always been opposed to this because MOM’s decision to accept such feedback is based on the employer’s story only without any proper investigation.

I don’t think such a feedback system should exist, whether it is a complaint by an employer or a worker. Claims and complaints need to be investigated properly. But now I have decided to turn the tables and write negative feedback about abusive employers to MOM.

What triggered this? This afternoon, despite acknowledgement by MOM that an employer (who is an SMU professor with a Phd from MIT) had pressured a domestic worker to kneel on the floor to say sorry for mistakes made, and had to write 500 times “I will follow what grandma tells me to” as punishment, she was still unfairly terminated by the employer and had to return home.

Another domestic worker was threatened and had a knife pointed in her direction by the employer. Despite filing a complaint at MOM, she was told she had “no case” and had to return home.

Why should migrant workers have to suffer in silence when such injustice happens? Why should you have to lose your job when your employer points a knife at you, humiliates and tortures you mentally? We need to take action.

If abusive employers can submit negative feedback about you for no good reason and MOM blacklists you without thorough investigations, it is time to fight back. I don’t like this feedback system. But it looks like we have no choice because too many migrant workers have been unfairly punished by it.

You can feedback an abusive employer and recommend that s/he be barred from hiring workers to the following email: [email protected]. If you are a domestic worker and need help with this, I’m happy to assist you. HOME Singapore

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Republished from Jolovan’s FB.

Source: www.theindependent.sg

February 16, 2017
Indonesian Maid Abused My Grandma, Stole Her Money, Then Ran Away To Malaysia

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On Monday 2nd of January 2017 around 7.30am, my grandmom was pushed and beaten by her helper who have worked with her since July last year. Not only that, the helper twisted n broke my grandmom’s right ankle while grandmom tried to stop her from leaving th house. My grandmom is currently warded in the hospital due to th injuries and fractured leg. She suffers some bruises from the scuffle too.. All this happen while my aunt was out sending her daughter to school.

Before she left, she have also stolen my grandmom’s money approx $1.3k (supposingly to bank in that day) and rm300+. She also took my aunt’s Samsung Tab. The helper has left Singapore to Malaysia via Woodlands Custom on that very morning according to th Investigation Officer.

We have lodged a police report and got legal advice on this matter too. We are just waiting for the Investigation Officer to get back to us on the updates.. Since this is not a Murder or Drug case, Interpol will take sometime to handle this.

I would like to seek help from everyone here to make this post viral so the helper can be found in no time. For our family, we are totally fine if the helper wants to leave if she really want to but why does she need to beat up and broke my grandmom’s leg. It is just unfair for my grandmom who is already 86years old and less mobility..

We trusted and treated her just like our own family. My family members will give her extra allowance for her own expenses, additional of her salary. Bought for her lots of things and she got lots of rest thru out her working here. She will also took her nap too as and when my grandmom naps. So we are shocked when this happens.

We have no idea what triggers her too.. Coz if she wants to fled, she can do it th past mths while she was alone with my grandmom. We believe that she was influenced or taught by someone that crossed path her recently. But no one cares about it now. All we care now is to seek justice for my aged grandmom who is still in a trauma state.

Her details are as per below –

Name of Helper : Baiq Sulaemi
#MAKEITVIRAL #THEFTOFSERVANT #CRIMINALMAID
#WANTEDMAIDBYTHEAUTHORITY

Do PM or Whatsapp me if you have any info about it. Thank You All For Your Help..
Jazakallahu Khayran

IN SINGAPORE IF EMPLOYER WERE TO ABUSE AND CAUSE HURT TO A DOMESTIC WORKER, TH EMPLOYER WILL BE CHARGED SO WHY CANT THIS HEARTLESS MAID BE CHARGED FOR HER WRONGDOINGS. ESPECIALLY TO AN ELDERLY WOMAN.

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

January 6, 2017
Peserta Ms Singapore Indonesian 2016 Kumpul Dana Bagi Mangsa Banjir Di Garut

Pada tanggal 25 September keluarga besar Ms Singapore Indonesian (MSSI) berjaya mengumpul dana bantuan untuk mangsa-mangsa banjir di Garut. Segala usaha dan penat lelah mereka berjalan berjualan makanan, baju, aksesoris, merias dan mengumpul baju-baju dan barangan untuk di dermakan ke GARUT.

Rasa terharu dan bangga sekali kerana anak-didik Ibu Dyah Novita Sari selaku founder for MSSI telah melakukan suatu usaha yang murni yang tiada nilai nya dan hanya Allah swt yang akan memberi kebaikan kepada kalian semua.

Walaupun penat tapi tetap riang gembira dan terpancar rasa kepuasan dan bahagia yang mendalam dari lubuk sanubari dan amat sukar dilafazkan hanya masing-masing yang dapat merasakan nya.

Moga istiqomah dan menjadikan satu semangat dan ikutan untuk yang lain-lain.

Source: LiNda Ma’aRof

September 30, 2016
Maid Too Busy Playing Pokémon Go To Take Care Of Employer’s Daughter

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Anyone staying at Jurong West ST 52 mummies, who know this maid employer’s. Kindly let the employer know what happen today that I witness with my own eye at the playground.

The maid in the picture below was suppose to take care of her employer kids, but she was playing “Pokémon Go” with 1 of the kid at the bench. One of the maid (onlooker) which was also taking care of her employer kids happen to saw the little girl (sitting at the maid lap) in the picture roaming around the playground without anybody taking care of her. The little girl was picking up food from the ground and she ate the food that she pick up, the maid (onlooker) called the maid in the pic but she ignore her. While I kindly approach her and let her know that the little girl is eating the food she pick from the ground. But the maid reply was : ” why you so kpo (busybody)” and my reply was :” what kpo stomach is not yours (referring to the little girl) what happen if she fall sick.” Yet the maid in the pic keep saying :” kpo kpo kpo” ” you are not my boss”

My reply was ” I’m not your boss, you are a human being but the little girl is not a human being is it?” But all the maid keep saying was “kpo kpo” and she didn’t do anything but just sitting at the bench playing Pokémon Go with the little boy and keep talking without bothering the little girl.

After that she vent her anger on the little girl by pulling her arm harshly forcing the little girl to sit on her lap.

After a while she left with her employer kids and walk to the HDB block and the little girl started to cry.

Kindly all kind soul help to share to let everyone know how this maid treat a poor little girl.

Source: Kimchi Chris Yukiko

August 17, 2016
No Non-Muslim Maids For Malaysian Muslims

PETALING JAYA: Maid agencies are stunned by a “new” directive imposed by the Immigration Department barring them from hiring non-Muslim maids.

Employers have questioned the rationale behind the policy, which department officials said was not new, as they were worried that they may not get any maids at all.

Malaysian Maid Employers Association (MAMA) president Engku Ahmad Fauzi said the policy would limit the supply of maids for Muslims.

“Religion should not be an obstacle. When you work in an office, you don’t base it on religion and likewise, this should not be the case for the maid in the home,” he said yesterday.

He called on the Immigration Department to enlighten people on the rationale of the policy.

A maid agency owner in Selangor who did not want to be named said she had applied for non-Muslim maids for Muslims who wanted them through the Foreign Workers Centralised Management System online but they were rejected.

“When I called, I was told to go to the counter to submit the application. But at the counter, the officers said that the policy was a directive from the director-general,” she said.

The officers said the policy had always existed and if she still wanted to put in the application, they would reject it, she said.

“If they did not allow Muslims to hire non-Muslims from the beginning, why did they allow it earlier?

“There was no circular to inform us about this,” she said, adding that the rejection had been ongoing for two weeks.

She said that if Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar could hire non-Muslims, why not Malaysia?

Another maid agency owner based in Kuala Lumpur said Malaysia had the policy all along, but some directors-general had allowed some flexibility depending on the situation.

“The policy narrows down the opportunity for Muslims to get maids,” she said.

Faiz Abdullah, 42, a father of three who lives in Petaling Jaya said he had heard from his maid agency about the matter.

He said that he would need to renew his maid’s permit this month and was worried that it would be rejected.

He said it was not easy to get a good and reliable maid these days and asked why it should be based on religion and race.

Business owner Zubir Rahman, 46, a father of three from Shah Alam said he was concerned about the policy because he preferred Filipino maids as they were more reliable.

He said he had three Indonesian maids before and two ran away but all four Filipino maids fulfilled their contracts.

“It would pose a problem for me because to get a good maid these days is very difficult,” said Zubir, whose current maid’s contract would expire in December.

Source: www.bharian.com.my

August 17, 2016