A domestic worker in Singapore was unable to find work for several months after a former employer filed a false complaint about her to the Ministry of Manpower.
The worker alleged she had left the job with her former employer because of physical and verbal abuse. The employer then filed a complaint with the authority, saying she was mentally unstable and unable to do her work properly, The Straits Times reported.
The maid discovered the complaint when applying for other jobs and sought help from the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics, a non-government organization, which appealed to the Ministry of Manpower on her behalf.
It took seven months to have the complaint removed from the authority’s system, after which she was hired within three weeks.
Agree
MOM should invistigate first before making a decession to accept the employers report. They can’t just put a file in thier system jeopardising the poor worker of finding new employment.
My neighbor who is finishing her contract told her employer that she does not want to renew her contract , because she was always overwork. She is nearly 50. Her employer did not agree to give her a release paper when she ask for it. For fair of sudden repatriation , she ran away to HOME and seek help. MOM called her employer but her employer still does not want to release her, although they already found a replacement. I think its time to scrap the release paper thing. Its the reason for many problems bet employer and a helper..Employer have no right to keep a helper if she is not happy.MOM should relax some rules. Helpers are here to support families back home. Employers can always find a replacement, no need to be so difficult to the helpless helper.
Almost same for me lucky me i got out and got new employer before they put false complaint
Black list employer…more rules for employer too..day off or salary…fair a nd honest…