Employer asks if it's compulsory for her to give her maid 2 weeks of paid leave at the end of 2-year contract
“I appreciate an NGO’s efforts to help ill-treated helpers, it’s much needed but I would have expected some form of impartiality. So the helper runs to HOME because she has ‘changed her mind about working’ and now I’m forced to take days off work to care for my sick parent? Is there any protection to employers then? Or I’m expected to let her go simply because she wants to? I’m so exhausted”, the woman wrote in her post.
Some netizens commented that she had problems because the maid was a direct hire, but others disagreed with this. Here’s what they wrote:ran away with her boyfriend after working for only three months, leaving her employer with the burden of paying the remainder of her loan to the agency. In an anonymous post to a Facebook group about the working conditions of domestic helpers, the maid’s employer asked others for help and advice.
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