No Maid, No Cry?

No more multi-tasking for Indonesian maids. That is now the order of the day.

Take it or leave it.

As they say, all good things must come to an end.

If those before you have hired Indonesia maids to do chores from A to Z, the new batch of maids will be trained in four household chores but will be employed to carry out only one task for their prospective bosses.

“If a maid is employed as a cook, she will only be tasked with chores related to cooking and will not be doing any other duties, such as baby-sitting or washing clothes,” said Indonesia’s Labour Placement Deve­lopment director-general Dr Reyna Usman.

The batch of 106 Indonesian maids are undergoing four skills training courses for 21 days that started yesterday.

They will be paid at least RM700 a month by their Malaysian employers.

This was concluded at the meeting of the Malaysia-Indonesian joint task force for the deployment, placement and protection of Indonesian maids at the Indonesian Manpower and Transmigration Ministry here yesterday.

Dr Reyna said the task force decided that the maids would be employed to do only one of the four household tasks for which they are being trained – as cooks, babysitters, caretakers of elderly people and housekeepers.

Dr Reyna said the deal concluded by the joint task force was expected to prevent recurrence of problems affecting maids and employers.

“If all this while, maids were not professional as they had to do all sort of duties, causing their employers to get angry, now their skills will be tailored to their jobs,” he added.

Indonesia will eventually send between 4,000 and 5,000 skilled maids a month to Malaysia, he said, adding most of them were currently being trained for specific skills in Surabaya, East Java and Bekasi, West Java.

He said in the initial stages, the maids would be trained by 12 of 176 Indonesian employment agencies while their placement with employers would be taken care of by five of 221 employment agencies in Malay­sia.

The deployment of maids from Indonesia was resumed after the Indonesian government withdrew its moratorium on sending maids to Malaysia on Dec 1 last year.

So sorry, prospective employers. No more abuse!

It is now time to shoulder your share of the household chores along with your well-paid maid.

The maid will now be a specialist and they know their rights.

For you,all other duties awaits you!

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