Posted by Nickki Leung (562 days ago)
Beware!! this is the latest trend of those Philippine domestic helpers whom will give your family triple headaches and leave you out nowhere.
Four months ago i hired a local Philippine domestic helper whom just finished her second contract here.
I will let you be the judge with her job condition.
Basically she only needs to attend one healthy person (me) and my son (20 yrs old) whom will come back for 3 months summer holidays each yr. She has a 80 sq.ft own quarter with her own toilet and bathroom.
Since there is no wet market around my place, 3 times a week i would drive her out for food shopping, buy her lunch at the same time.
She's 32 but moved like 60, so slow motion. I found out she couldn't cook basic chinese food so i was the cook every night. Thought she would learn from me but she jumped every time when the oil got hot in the wok. Now, how could she cook chinese food if she's so scare of the boiling hot oil? (OMG, Don't we need the probation period!)
Here comes the BIG SHOCK. One day she' fired ' me. She gave me one month notice and wanted to break the contract after working for 3 months.
REASON: She was going to work as a nanny in Toronto,Canada. And she was so honest to tell me nowadays, all philippine domestic helpers are looking for jobs in Canada usually with the help of their friends whom already working there.
First, they must try to sign a contract with the locals so that they can submit all application form, documents to the Consulate of Canada in HKG. It only takes about 2 months or less for processing here and Ottawa will issue a one year travelling visa whilst in Manila it will take at least 8 months to process the paper and only 6 months travelling visa will issue to them. And the fee is much cheaper in HKG.
To work in Canada, they will need two years working experience as dh (they are that eager to come to HKG even for one contract, thats enough for experience), college graduate, must be married with copy of the marriage cert.
Ho, Ho, this is what they will get from Canada: 10 CN dollars per hour, 8 hours per day. No over time work. 5 days per week. = HKD 16,000 per month. (Our local U grad should apply for the job, much better pay, right?)
She can enjoy all medical benefits from Canadian government. And after working there for one year,she is allow to look for another job and most of all she can apply her whole family migrate there and her children can enjoy all education benefits even to university.
Due to the labor law in HKG. We, the employers have to pay her one way ticket from Manila to HKG (most in terms of cash) another one way ticket back to Manila, the one month notice salary, travelling expenses in HKG as well as her hometown.
They got nothing to loose to sign the contract with you while waiting for the visa to be issued.
And we, all employers become the stepping stones for them. There is no way you can find out their intention before you sign the contract, no protection whatsoever.
The worst scenario is you loose the agency fee, the compensation lump sum even they are the one to break the contract?? the time to look for another replacement and training them all over from the beginning.
Once i was watching a documentary in Japan. They do hire Philippine and Indonesia maids for the elderly home. They will get the equal pay as local Japanese, but all of the employee must learn the language, 3 months job training course will be responsible by the agency on behalf of the Japanese government.
They MUST pass the examination by the JAPANESE GOVERNMENT before they allow to come to Tokyo / Osaka and after 6 months probation period if the working performance is not satisfy, they will be send back home and cannot apply again.
Why can't Hong Kong Government do something like this to provide a bit high quality oversea domestic helpers for us since they allow so many to come over.
How can we have confidence to take any risk to hire any of them and don't know how soon they are going to Canada?
It's a fraud since this has to be plan ahead a long time. This can happen to every one of us.
The Canadian immi. dept. even announce they do welcome all nanny, domestic helpers to work there. (Ain't they have very high jobless rate with the local people there?)
What kind of policy they are running?!
Four months ago i hired a local Philippine domestic helper whom just finished her second contract here.
I will let you be the judge with her job condition.
Basically she only needs to attend one healthy person (me) and my son (20 yrs old) whom will come back for 3 months summer holidays each yr. She has a 80 sq.ft own quarter with her own toilet and bathroom.
Since there is no wet market around my place, 3 times a week i would drive her out for food shopping, buy her lunch at the same time.
She's 32 but moved like 60, so slow motion. I found out she couldn't cook basic chinese food so i was the cook every night. Thought she would learn from me but she jumped every time when the oil got hot in the wok. Now, how could she cook chinese food if she's so scare of the boiling hot oil? (OMG, Don't we need the probation period!)
Here comes the BIG SHOCK. One day she' fired ' me. She gave me one month notice and wanted to break the contract after working for 3 months.
REASON: She was going to work as a nanny in Toronto,Canada. And she was so honest to tell me nowadays, all philippine domestic helpers are looking for jobs in Canada usually with the help of their friends whom already working there.
First, they must try to sign a contract with the locals so that they can submit all application form, documents to the Consulate of Canada in HKG. It only takes about 2 months or less for processing here and Ottawa will issue a one year travelling visa whilst in Manila it will take at least 8 months to process the paper and only 6 months travelling visa will issue to them. And the fee is much cheaper in HKG.
To work in Canada, they will need two years working experience as dh (they are that eager to come to HKG even for one contract, thats enough for experience), college graduate, must be married with copy of the marriage cert.
Ho, Ho, this is what they will get from Canada: 10 CN dollars per hour, 8 hours per day. No over time work. 5 days per week. = HKD 16,000 per month. (Our local U grad should apply for the job, much better pay, right?)
She can enjoy all medical benefits from Canadian government. And after working there for one year,she is allow to look for another job and most of all she can apply her whole family migrate there and her children can enjoy all education benefits even to university.
Due to the labor law in HKG. We, the employers have to pay her one way ticket from Manila to HKG (most in terms of cash) another one way ticket back to Manila, the one month notice salary, travelling expenses in HKG as well as her hometown.
They got nothing to loose to sign the contract with you while waiting for the visa to be issued.
And we, all employers become the stepping stones for them. There is no way you can find out their intention before you sign the contract, no protection whatsoever.
The worst scenario is you loose the agency fee, the compensation lump sum even they are the one to break the contract?? the time to look for another replacement and training them all over from the beginning.
Once i was watching a documentary in Japan. They do hire Philippine and Indonesia maids for the elderly home. They will get the equal pay as local Japanese, but all of the employee must learn the language, 3 months job training course will be responsible by the agency on behalf of the Japanese government.
They MUST pass the examination by the JAPANESE GOVERNMENT before they allow to come to Tokyo / Osaka and after 6 months probation period if the working performance is not satisfy, they will be send back home and cannot apply again.
Why can't Hong Kong Government do something like this to provide a bit high quality oversea domestic helpers for us since they allow so many to come over.
How can we have confidence to take any risk to hire any of them and don't know how soon they are going to Canada?
It's a fraud since this has to be plan ahead a long time. This can happen to every one of us.
The Canadian immi. dept. even announce they do welcome all nanny, domestic helpers to work there. (Ain't they have very high jobless rate with the local people there?)
What kind of policy they are running?!
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