Maid asks other employers how much food allowance they give their helpers when they go on holiday

A maid polled other employers on how much allowance they gave their helpers when they went on holiday. In an anonymous post to Facebook page FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), a helper wrote: "Hi Employers, I would like to know how much food allowance will you give to the helper when your family go overseas holidays? TIA". In her post on Wednesday (Aug 31), many helpers responded with the amounts that their employers would give them, with many adding that they would return the unused portion of the money. Here's what they said: Earlier this month, a foreign domestic worker took to social media alleging that when her employers went on a 5-day holiday, they did not leave her any food or money.

In the helper’s post on Facebook page FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), the maid shared a photo of the additional list of chores her employer had given her. She wrote that in addition to her usual tasks, her employer had given her “so much task (sic) to do”.

She had to water the plants on alternate days, brush and wash the balcony walls, clean her employer’s child’s toys, slide and bicycle, clean all the kitchen cabinets, both bathrooms and tiles, clean the kitchen windows and change all the sofa cushion covers, bedsheets, and floor mats.