for the maids in this these situations, but now that I have am working for a company employing maids to work at part-time cleaning contracts, I have become a little more informed about how things work, with both the maids and the companies.
Having recently been in Phils to recruit new staff (changing over nationalities from Sri Lankan - Filipinas) It has been very interesting to note how badly they are getting paid in Phils - One girl earns 1500 pesos in a month - now that was shocking to me... espcially since myself and my colleague had dinner at a good restaurant near our hotel the night before and had paid 900 pesos for dinner.
For these girls, earning the monthly salaries we offer them, along with paying the airticket, providing the food, accomodation and transport, is way more money than they have seen in a year - So I now have no more sympathy, since during the interview process, we tell them exactly what they are signing up for. I know we might be one of the few companies that actually keep our promises and pay them what they sign for.
Alot of people in the ME, think that $400 is not a lot of money - you do realise that with the exchange rate at 42pesos to 1 dollar it amounts to about 15,000 pesos in salary, which is a lot of money in Phils, espcially when you are paying only QR20 or 200pesos for a full body massage;-p And what about the fact that they actually don't pay anything out of that salary - its all provided for them?
Also being on this side of the equations - I am also privvy to the reasons why most people "lock up" their maids or control their off days - again, while I don't agree with it, the trouble the ladies get into when left to their own devices, causes major problems for the companies and when it comes to recruit new staff, puts a black mark against our name because of what one of the girls have gotten up to and ended up being deported.
Running away can be fore many reasons, somtimes for something the employer has done, but alot of the time, because the employee has caused a huge problem and knows that they face deportation - and maybe, just maybe running away can stop her from being caught - that was the reasoning we were given, anyway!!!
for the maids in this these situations, but now that I have am working for a company employing maids to work at part-time cleaning contracts, I have become a little more informed about how things work, with both the maids and the companies.
Having recently been in Phils to recruit new staff (changing over nationalities from Sri Lankan - Filipinas) It has been very interesting to note how badly they are getting paid in Phils - One girl earns 1500 pesos in a month - now that was shocking to me... espcially since myself and my colleague had dinner at a good restaurant near our hotel the night before and had paid 900 pesos for dinner.
For these girls, earning the monthly salaries we offer them, along with paying the airticket, providing the food, accomodation and transport, is way more money than they have seen in a year - So I now have no more sympathy, since during the interview process, we tell them exactly what they are signing up for. I know we might be one of the few companies that actually keep our promises and pay them what they sign for.
Alot of people in the ME, think that $400 is not a lot of money - you do realise that with the exchange rate at 42pesos to 1 dollar it amounts to about 15,000 pesos in salary, which is a lot of money in Phils, espcially when you are paying only QR20 or 200pesos for a full body massage;-p And what about the fact that they actually don't pay anything out of that salary - its all provided for them?
Also being on this side of the equations - I am also privvy to the reasons why most people "lock up" their maids or control their off days - again, while I don't agree with it, the trouble the ladies get into when left to their own devices, causes major problems for the companies and when it comes to recruit new staff, puts a black mark against our name because of what one of the girls have gotten up to and ended up being deported.
Running away can be fore many reasons, somtimes for something the employer has done, but alot of the time, because the employee has caused a huge problem and knows that they face deportation - and maybe, just maybe running away can stop her from being caught - that was the reasoning we were given, anyway!!!