Foreign Domestic Worker News 2012-08-28
Foreign Domestic Worker News 2012-08-28
Foreign Domestic Worker insurance in Singapore, you can now get a cheap quote independently from the agencies. Help needed for one foreign domestic worker in Taiwan who was arrested for falsification of her travel documents. She has 3 children who need her support, she got 10 months in prison – is this a bit extreme?
Singapore offers a grant to families in need of foreign domestic worker support. What is it, who qualifies and what… Continue reading
Filipino Maids News 13Apr2012
Filipino Maids
Filipino maids in America get a boost of fair play when a Taiwanese diplomat is expelled for abusing her.
Filipino maid murdered in Kuwait -couple are sentenced to death.
Would you pay more for a better trained and educated maid? Should we be paying more to get a better service? Of course we should! After all, it’s our families and our homes we’re investing in when we buy domestic maid help to look after us.
Filipino Maids News
Kuwaiti Couple… Continue reading
Domestic Helpers News 9-Apr-2012
Domestic Helpers
More news for Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong as the right to Abode has been overturned by the courts recently. Are they just Pawns in the political game. Our Domestic Helpers are enabling the professional workforce to support and build the economy of many countries, not just in Asia but around the world. Without them looking after our homes, our children, our pets and ourselves, would we be able to work and have families?
The commitment professionals make… Continue reading
Foreign Domestic Workers News 2012-03-29
Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore
Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore were recently awarded a day off every week by the Government. It’s telling enough that it takes a government legislation to force employers to consider foreign domestic workers as human beings with rights. Let’s be clear who this is really pointing at – there are many families in Singapore employing foreign domestic workers and treating them with respect and in some cases as if they are family members.
It’s not… Continue reading
Foreign Domestic Workers News 20-Feb-2012
Foreign Domestic Workers News
Foreign Domestic Workers – is the world starting to listen to your plight? There is a growing recognition of workers right now seemingly building momentum around the world. Not so long ago a foreign domestic worker applied for residency in Hong Kong and after something of a battle she won here right to become a PR (Permanent Resident). The flood gates had been opened and the volume of requests has escalated. Elsewhere there’s now consideration for… Continue reading
Foreign Domestic Workers News Feb 2 2012
Foreign Domestic Workers News
Foreign Domestic Workers – Heroes?
With the economy generally causing most people some form of challenge, there still appears to be a booming market for Foreign Domestic Workers in Asia. Hong Kong has been one of the largest Asian communities of Foreign Domestic Workers for a very long time, with the Filipino community serving the largest portion of Foreign Domestic Workers there.
Today there are still large numbers of Filipino, Indonesian, Nepalese and Thai workers… Continue reading
Domestic Worker News 30 Jan 2012
Domestic Worker News
Over the years living and working in Asia, as an expat, it’s been very apparent that the domestic worker gets a raw deal. As the husband of a Filipina and as an employer of many a domestic worker, on and off in the last 7 years, it’s been an education. On one hand the basic laws and wages defined as appropriate for the foreign domestic worker is a mixed bag. In some countries the basic labour law… Continue reading
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