Singaporean faces 23 charges in alleged involvement in illegal labour importation
Post Date: 11-01-2025
9 January 2025 Foreign manpower | Work passes and permits
On 9 January 2025, a 31-year-old male Singaporean, Qin Xiaoxi (“Qin”), was charged in Court for offences involving...
Woman Got colleague to hire maid on her behalf to bupass work permit rules ; all 3 get jail
Post Date: 14-12-2024
SINGAPORE: A marketing operations manager working in Singapore on an employment pass agreed to help an acquaintance by hiring her as a maid on paper in exchange for money. This was despite her knowing that the acquaintance would be sourcing for her o...
Jail, caning for workers who sexually assaulted maid while hired to pain interior flat
Post Date: 14-02-2024
Miah Suzon, 35, was carrying out painting works when he followed after a domestic helper in the flat to molest and sexually assault her. He started after the helper's employer went out to buy more paint when Miah did not have enough
Even though the...
Insensitive ads describing maids as ‘good value for money’, ‘affordable’ are back
Post Date: 22-10-2023
SINGAPORE – They jostle for customers with promises of “good value for money” and “affordable” in notices they place on their shop windows, but the items on sale are not goods.
Instead, three dozen or so maid agencies a...
Employment agency personnel convicted for fraudulently abtaining work permit for foreigner
Post Date: 03-09-2023
25th August 2023 | Work passes and permits
Lee Peck Li (“Lee”), a 44-year-old Singaporean man and key appointment holder of employment agency (“EA”) C1EA Pte. Ltd. was convicted today for engaging in a conspiracy to m...
My daughter and the maid
Post Date: 25-04-2023
I HAVE a boy aged 13 and a girl aged 10. My Filipino maid has been with me for 10 years and she will be returning home for good in January 2007.
My daughter was brought up by my maid. She is very close to her and has been sleeping with her in the sa...
Standard contracts on hiring maids launched
Post Date: 25-04-2023
SINGAPORE: The Association of Employment Agencies (Maid Agencies) and Casetrust have come up with two standard contracts for maid employers.The contracts will have a service agreement between the maid agency and the maid employer and a second employm...
Filipino Maid Gets Award for Working 37 Years in Singapore
Post Date: 25-04-2023
When 56-year old Filipino maid Lucy stepped on stage to receive her long-service award yesterday, her employer's family and all the maids present gave her a hearty round of applause.Having worked in Singapore for close to 37 years, Lucy is the Filipi...
A day in the good life
Post Date: 25-04-2023
FILIPINA maid Nida Aquino Sindayen, 51, is single and the eldest of six siblings who she put through school by working as a maid.She has worked in Singapore for the same family for two decades, looking after their three children. Sindayen enjoys good...
Housewife jailed for burning Myanmar maid with iron
Post Date: 25-04-2023
Singapore- A Singaporean housewife who twice burned her maid from Myanmar (Burma) with an iron was sentenced to 10 months in jail, news reports said Thursday. Angry over Maw Maw Lwin's slow completion of chores, employer Poh Chin Tee did not even che...
