Help for new maids

The Straits Times, Mar 13, 2010

A NEW 'settling-in' programme will be launched in May to help new foreign maids ease into life in Singapore.

It will include courses on Singapore's culture and social norms, financial management and stress management.

Employers can enrol their foreign domestic workers for the courses, which will be held on weekends at selected community centres.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will engage the Foreign Domestic Worker Association for Skills Training (Fast) to run the pilot programme, said the ministry's Senior Parliamentary Secretary Hawazi Daipi.

He announced the new initiative in Parliament yesterday, in response to a question from Mr Seng Han Thong (Yio Chu Kang) on its plans to help new foreign maids transit better into working life here.

Mr Hawazi pointed out that these workers are already required to attend a safety awareness course, which trains them on working in Singapore homes and safe practices in high-rise residences.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.

KOR KIAN BENG


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I need to remind the public that it should be the duty of the agency to sent the maids to be trained before we hire them and not the other way around.
Posted by: sg_unemployed at Sun Mar 14 14:03:26 SGT 2010