Should We Allow Foreign Domestic Workers To Do Part-Time Work? | Talking Point | Full Episode

Have you ever wondered what your helper is doing on her off day? In this episode of Talking Point, Steven Chia investigates the illegal side hustles full time maids take on. How do they get these second jobs? And why do they take the risk? We speak to foreign domestic workers, NGOS and employers about why maids moonlight, and if we should consider making part-time jobs for them legal.

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[oeuf]

i dont understand why including their off day they need to be controlled. they are not slaves. give them chance to make themselves better by doing businesses and other non maid jobs.

[leonisadavis]

Let them be free to work to make extra money do not treat them like criminals they are already slaving themselves..

[TalkToMeInTagalog]

Domestic workers across the world work long hours and earn peanuts. Many of them suffer verbal, emotional and mental abuse in the hands of their savage employers while others come home in a box. It's a meager amount to you but it means a fortune to them and their families back home. This documentary highlights moonlighting as illegal in SG but showing them empathy won't hurt, Steven. 😪🙏

[Suzumiya-haruhi]

used to work in singapore and one of my colleagues hired a maid for her 3 toddlers and to do all the house chores for a price of $500 per month. the maid only has 1 day off per month, not allowed to use her mobile phone and her passport were kept hidden. so yeah sounds like modern slavery.

[xt]

Some of the questions are rather ignorant, “why do you need so much money?” Absolutely ludicrous, anyone would need extra money, Singaporeans too! Moreover, these FDWs often come here in the first place because they need that extra money. That “extra money” could go towards giving their children a better education, or simply the basic needs. The double standards is just insane and so blunt

[nellyphillips]

LEAVE THEM ALONE for goodness sake stop controlling an dictating wbat they can an cannot do ugh

[yatini]

I'm working in Singapore for more than 20 year, my salary is $640 and barely enough for me to save for my retirement next time when I go back kampung, I want to do part time job cleaning people house, but I don't dare I have no friends to go jalan" to, so for almost 3 months I never take my off day and stay at home do work without being paid to😥

[TheRealMcCoyAndChipsAhoy]

LOL the music makes it sound like they murdered someone.... "All your food, accommodation, expenses...etc are covered..why do you need so much money? question deserves two tight slaps...against legalising side hustles? Then they should pay more to the workers instead of being so cheap . "My helper gets 500 a month..I don't feel she is underpaid"...the cheek of that woman. Exploitation at its finest.

[acamapichtli.raul.suppachok]

Unfortunate tone used by the reporter. It showcases a huge lack of knowledge of what human rights and fair treatment of workers and people mean. Singapore seems backward and quite undeveloped in comparison to most developed countries. His tone and basically this video would not be allowed here in Norway. The whole focus would be on the side of the workers. Not the opposite.

[gosikh]

Come $600 is pityful wages.

Plus, there is soooo much demand.

[kennethho]

The law:
Domestic workers: $600 (Salary) - $500 (Back to family) = $100 (Low standard of living)
Employers: Fine = up to $10, 000 (Doesn't want to bear the consequences)

Three Solutions:
1) Increase the salary to a reasonable amount (not $600...., working 8hrs, 6 days a week)
2) Review the law (not saying to legalise but to transform)
3) Have better moral CONSCIENCE for our FDW (Foreign Domestic Workers)

we need more videos like this.

[ThAsSq]

This guy is retro in n out - classic benz and old iphone

[pfx]

Because maid employers still pay and treat maid like slave. Pay them proper salary, give them proper visa and treat them like proper human. What a hypocritical issue!

[sidmichael]

That's none of your business. This is invasion of privacy. Unless they are committing a crime otherwise that's nobody's business.

[abigialmr]

They are helpers who should be supported if they willing to go extra, not slaves. The question of allowing or not shouldn't even be in the first place. We have one that we have employed for over 12 years, we even set aside a small portion saving on top of her income separately in case one day she is old and or wish to go back to her country.

[Zharticraftszha]

We are very low salary so we try to work so that we can support ourselves and family

[dabsvlog]

I notice this kind of problem when i was working in singapore 8 years ago.. i have a friend who happens to be maid she only get 350 dollars as stay in maid before some of them dont have day off...she only go out for groceries or when her employer is out of the country... maids being look down and treated as modern slaves... what they do on their day off is nobodies business... if you dont want them well start cleaning your own home, do your own groceries and watch your own child but i bet your too lazy to do that

[bearhood]

The fact this video is available, were made and "considered to be a problem" has epitomised Chinese Singaporeans got no clue what human rights is!

[jordanandkimbothepugs]

Is it guilty is one is resourceful and entrepreneurial? If it doesn’t bother the quality of work, then I don’t see a problem?

[amimalimbu]

Pay them enough so that they don't have to go do another job. But it's never enough for some people how much they earn.