..are they who
- think they own their maids, from the meer few hundred they pay per month
- abuses their maid for whatever reason. if not happy with the maid, then send back lah.. no need to abuse them.
- do not pay their maids monthly, thinking that they have the right to keep their maids' money.
- don't allow their maids to contact their family members or friends.
I hope the govt will take more drastic measures to ensure that the maids are treated fairly, like
1. Requiring the maids to report back to the Embassy on a monthly for new maids then 3 months once - ALONE without the employers. To give them a chance to feedback on their conditions.
2. Default payments of maid's pay, through auto giro month deduction from employer's accounts, with the service fees, paid by employers. Unless requested by the maids otherwise.
Just like other employees, like us, they too, should be given the option to quit an employer, if the situation is not right.
Actually memang kadang2 kesian sangat.. cause for new maids, diorang tak dapat gaji sampai up to 8 months! because they need to pay the agents for the arrangement to come here. Can you imagine urself working 8 months without pay?!
Some people, just don't have empathy.
Orang2 yang tak ada empathy ni.. yang buat orang sesuka hati. yang buat macam hamba abdi diorang. SURELY, they will be dealt with kat akhirat nanti.
18:49 And the Book (of Deeds) will be placed (before you); and thou wilt see the sinful in great terror because of what is (recorded) therein; they will say, "Ah! woe to us! what a Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great, but takes account thereof!" They will find all that they did, placed before them: And not one will thy Lord treat with injustice.
Al Quran, Al-Kahf 18:49
*I read about the maid who tried to escape from the 15th floor in KL.. and I also remembered the plights of some of Rus' friends.*
Oh ya.. i hope the govt will also require the employers yang abuse maids ni, to pay them 2 years pay as penalty, before the maids are sent home. Kalau tak, they get nothing back for the pain they suffer!
Sometimes.. don't u feel overwhelmed.. by the problems faced by a lot of people around us. And you feel helpless, cause you cannot help ALL of them.
But i've read, about helping others - you only have to make a difference to one individual and grow from there. InsyaAllah.
Madame Blossom's Book of Poems
5 comments:
yeah kesian kan?
my maid kat rumah,kakneng told me that the maid kat belakang rumah told her that her last majikan used to tendang her belakang everytime dia solat.
haihhh
:'( kesian nyer!!! GERAM nyer!! :(
hmmm... yeah at times mmg majikan tu really too much. I've work in a maid agency before and i heard many2 stories...
but sometimes there are some cases whereby the maid take advantages of the employer kindness
sigh..
my maid it going back tis weekend. Tho at times i can be sakit hati with her but i byk sabar jer cos if without her pun susah jugak and i tried not to get too emo as well so best things is to just give and take la kan...
not too sure how's my new maid gonna be like after.. All i hope tat she will be a realiable insya-allah....
:)
ish, geram seh dengar these stories. orang singapore ni takde peri-kemanusiaan[sp?] langsung ke?
i think my ex-maid was very lucky. we treated her like our own family. gi makan kat expensive restaurants pun kita bawak dia and what we ate, she ate the same things too. we only took her in to take care of our grandma but all the hard work was only for 1 month. the rest of the 5 years she was here was just to clean the house and cook. no kids to take care of. very easy job. then she heard the horrors of the other maids and was very syukur that she had a better fate.
sometimes, gitu lah... maid baik, boss gila. then the other times, the other way around. it's like jodoh gitu I guess...
but seriously, people here need to learn how to be more compassionate and show empathy. they're not slaves!!!
i pun understand that there are some maids yang naik kepala. but i feel, if we respect them, they'll respect us too. Kalau diorang memang betul jahat, naik kepala.. nasihat firmly pun tak jalan.. tukar sudah.
but the most important thing about having a maid is, to ackowledge that kita semua ada kelemahan - there is definitely some areas, which she may not be good at, or cannot do as we want. Part tu yang kena give and take.
And again, like i said.. kalau it doesn't work, then, tukar.
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