Are the laws different for foreign contract workers? I remember that Filipina's contracted in Singapore were immediatly deported if they got pregnant. There was a public squabble there back in 2012 over giving the maids a day off. Or having a boyfrend. Here's a bit from back then.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:59 pmThere are very strong labor laws here and part of them deal with sexual harassment. I know quite a few people who have successfully sued large companies due to misconduct on the employer's part.
"Can the Maid Have Boyfriends?
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SINGAPORE, Mar 20 2012 (IPS) - A routine announcement by the government of this city-state entitling foreign, female domestic workers to a day off each week has sent their affluent employers into a tizzy.
What if the hired help finds a boyfriend and gets pregnant? That was the thought uppermost in the minds of Singaporeans, a third of whom are used to the idea of young women from impoverished Asian countries cleaning, fetching and caring for them, unquestioningly.
“I had a Filipina maid who found a Bangladeshi boyfriend and got pregnant. I had to send her back home after just seven months and pay for her airfare,” complains Elsie Wong, a businesswoman. “I almost lost my 4,000 dollar bond,” Wong told IPS.
Singapore’s foreign domestic worker (FDW) contracts stipulate that once the hired help gets pregnant she must be deported, with the employer paying her airfare.
Wong was spared having to forfeit the security bond since the ministry of manpower (MOM) has clarified that since January 2010 the employer’s liability has been limited.
“The ministry does not forfeit employer’s security bonds if FDWs violate their own work permit conditions, for instance, if they moonlight or get pregnant,” said Farah Abdul Rahim, director of corporate relations at the MOM, in a letter to the Straits Times, responding to employers’ concerns.
“If you allow your teenage children to have boyfriends or girlfriends, how can you demand that an adult in your employ should not?” argues John Gee, former president of ‘TWC2’, a voluntary agency that has campaigned since 2003 for a weekly day off for FDWs.
“This is totally unacceptable and this is an attitude that has to change,” says Gee. Starting Jan. 1, 2013 Singaporean employers will either conform to the new law or be liable to pay a fine of 4,000 dollars or spend six months in jail."
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/can-the- ... oyfriends/