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We need our Domestic Workers....Respect their rights!

Discussion in 'Dumaguete City' started by Torilian, Jul 28, 2013.

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  1. ChMacQueen

    ChMacQueen DI Forum Patron Highly Rated Poster Showcase Reviewer Veteran Army

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    I understand this issue annoys many of us foreigners who often pay well above the average and tend to be far far more generous to a good helper. However the issue is that many Filipino's and non western culture foreigners pay crap, overwork, and don't provide much of anything for their worker. I've known many who are working from 4am-10pm or later making 1500p a month and getting left over table scraps, not allowed to eat with the family or even at same time, don't get their basic needs paid for by employer, and no benefits or 13th month pay. I've even known a few who have been from mountain areas long way away who have said that they often get used sexually by males in the family and have no choice other then feel their family back home will starve. All these abuses is often why people look for non local helpers from a distant rural area so they are cut off from their support network.
     
    ChMacQueen, Oct 11, 2013
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    This law does not stop employers from overworking domestic helpers. It actually gives them permission. Read the law, it ain't fair to helpers. If you don't want to read it just check a couple posts back that I made for a brief description of what is allowed and not. I would never treat a helper as the law allows me to. I prefer to treat them as humans.

    I also feel that it is their right to either accept the minimum wage with benefits or take a higher salary for good work. The benefits that the law mandates will not be taken out of my pocket. It will be deducted from any extra salary they might have made for a job well done.

    On the other hand I do understand that some people abuse helpers.....but there were laws that should have protected them from such things prior this one being put into law. In this country enforcement is the issue, not a lack of laws that protect.
     
    Rye83, Oct 11, 2013
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    I'm not a foreigner but a local of Sibulan. Our helper is a college student at NORSU for half a year now and been with us for about 1 year. She received P2300/month before she started college. We gave her P8000 for her tuition, P300/week allowance and school supplies that will most probably increase in the future. If I follow this law, she will have a huge debt to us by the time she graduated (which I wouldn't ask from her after she graduated and found work) considering her working hours per day is decreased, and the tuition & allowance is way more than the suggested salary. If the SSS, Philhealth or other things will be added to that, I cannot provide what I'm giving to her now. So how in hell will she be able to finish her studies. She probably still can but at reduced load and that will take her many years more to finish her studies.

    And I don't consider house helps as employees, I treat them like any other member of the family except for the chores of course.
     
    n4l3hp, Oct 17, 2013
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