How much is the salary of Filipino Maid in Malaysia and othercountries

An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a person who works outside the Philippines. It is estimated that approximately 10 million Filipino descent lived or worked overseas. This number constitutes about 11 percent of the total population of the Philippines. It is one of the largest populations, spanning over 100 countries. 

When we compare the normal wage for domestic workers in the Philippines, it has a huge advantage in other countries. Their remuneration abroad is far greater than that of the professional in the Philippines.

It is also the reason why they prefer to leave the country instead of working in the Philippines because they obviously can give their family a better life in Philippines while working abroad. Most of the Overseas Filipino workers send their salaries to the Philippines for their family’s financial support.

Remittances from Filipinos working abroad is huge. A report has been stated that total cash remittances sent home by overseas Filipino workers has a record of $28.1 billion per month, according to data from Central Bank of the Philippines. Approximately 80% of the remittances came from only 7 countries—united States, Canada, the United Kingdom, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Japan. Interestingly, there are more female OFWs than male OFWs. The proportion of OFWs was higher for females (53.7%) than males (46.3%).  Total annual remittances reach 205.2 billion pesos.

The below chart shows the spread of overseas Filipino workers around the globe.

One of the main reason that they like to work abroad is due to salary. The wages in foreign countries are much higher than those in the Philippines, so they even worked as a housemaid.

But how much does the Filipino Domestic worker (FDW) is paid overseas? The lowest income of domestic workers is 20,000.00 Pesos and the highest is 200,000. 00 Pesos it depends on each country of employment.

For majorities of the countries, the wages for a Filipino domestic helper is set by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and maid agencies must inform their employers. Employers in different countries give salary to a maid based on the converted currencies. The approximately salaries in Pesos was given to a maid in different countries is listed below. 

1. Bahrain - P21,000

2. Brunei - P20,000

3. China - P45,000

4. Cyprus - P23, 000

5. Canada - P570 per hour

6. Dubai - P20, 500

7. Egypt - P35, 000

8. France - P37,000

9. Guam - P38, 000

10. Hong Kong - Pinay DHs in Hong Kong can earn over P51,000.

11. Israel - P65,000

12. Japan - P61,000

13. Kuwait - P20,000

14. Saudi Arabia - P26,000

15. Malaysia – P20,000

16. Macau - P41,000

17. Morrocco - P21,000

18. Oman – P20,000

19. Qatar - P20,000

20. Singapore - P27,000

In Malaysia, compare to other nationalities, A Filipino maid has the highest salary compared to Indonesian maid salary is about to RM 1200.

The minimum wage for FilipinoDomestic Worker in Malaysia is 400 US Dollars or its equivalent to 1680 Ringgit per month, in the event of Malaysian Ringgit (RM) fluctuation by 10% (+/-) against US dollar, the equivalent of local currency in RM will be adjusted accordingly upon official issuance of from POLO –Philippine Overseas Labor Office – Philippine Embassy, Kuala Lumpur.

How Maid Attitude Can Impact on Her Performance?

Employer and maid sometimes have difficulties. They frequently go to Maid Agencies in Malaysia for counselling. No matter the nationality of the helper whether she is from Philippine or Indonesia. Majority of issues fall in the category of 1). Attitude problem 2). Poor performance. Do these problems have relationship to each other, if so, how? It is proven that attitude is a predictor of achievement even more than IQ.

Attitude is defined as “a predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person, or situation.” In fact, the way of thinking or feeling about a person or a situation reflect the behaviour. An attitude is a pattern of thought. It affects how people approach everything they do. However attitudes have developed from past experiences; changing behaviour, patterns of thought and outlook will result in a change attitude. Attitude can be changed but it really need strong commitment and if it so changed in positive way, it will be a major factor for the level of success.

Attitudes fall into one of two categories: a fixed mind-set and a growth mind-set. A fixed mind-set person believes nothing can be changed. This creates problems when there is a challenge since anything that appears to be more than it can handle so it bounds to hopeless and overwhelmed. Employers encounter more issue with such a fix mind-set maid during the employment contract. Maid doesn’t want to adjust herself with new environment and change her attitude and behaviour to learn about the new situation. For example, a domestic helper with a fix min-set won’t try to cope with her homesickness issue and very seldom can finish her contract. Bad attitudes are often the outcome of past experiences and practices so it won’t easily change.  As a matter of fact, maids generally don’t have high level of attitude awareness. They usually have less ability on handling their attitude. Their poor attitude creates low self-esteem, stress, fear, offence, anger and an inability to handle changes. Domestic helpers usually don’t fail because of lack of skills. It is usually bad behaviour, bad actions, or bad attitude. There is a strong link between attitude and performance

In contrast; a domestic helper with a growth mind-set believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform than those with a fixed mind-set, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating themselves as opportunities to learn something new. In fact, the best attitude in life is the way of thinking “I can do”. A maid with a positive attitude always has better performance since constantly embraces each challenge as a learning experience. According to new research positive attitude may help more than IQ.

All in all, attitude is everything and has very important impact on performance. All involved recruitment agencies especially source countries as well as employers should find a way to know the attitude of their maids if she is optimistic or pessimistic. However, knowing attitude is timely, complicated and multiplex conditions are involved. Mostly maids show their best behaviour when they are interviewed or during the training period and arrival. In spite of that, by recognizing habits and behaviour, attitude can be predicted so they can find a way to enlighten the maid and help her to improve and adjust in the best way. At last, good attitude must be reciprocal in which employer’s approach can effect on maid attitude so that consequently the performance of the maid will be improved and a successful employment will be expected.

Agensi Pekerjaan Danu Gemilang Sdn Bhd

Foreign Domestic Worker Agency, Malaysia

Website: www.dgmaidagency.com.my

 Telephone & Fax No.: +60 3 87406041

Mobile No: +60 129813365 / +60125383365

Email Add: ap.danugemilang@mail.com  /     info@dgmaidagency.com.my

Presentation to Maid Agencies malaysua By The Embassy OF The Philippine Overseas Labor Office Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

DG-Malaysia MAID-AGENCY

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

I. The PHILIPPINE OVERSEAS LABOR OFFICE  (POLO)

II. The REFORM PACKAGE FOR FILIPINO DOMESTIC WORKERS (DWs)

III. The COMMON PROLEMS of DWs

IV. PLACEMENT BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR

V. The EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

VI. RECRUITMENT VIOLATIONS AND DISCIPLINARY ACTION CASES

VII. ASSISTANCE TO WORKERS VIII.POLO OFFICE POLICIES

VIII. POLO OFFICE POLICIES

Agensi Pekerjaan Danu Gemilang Sdn Bhd

Foreign Domestic Worker Agency, Malaysia

 

Business Address

H-38-1B, Jalan Prima Saujana 2/D, Prima Saujana 43000 Kajang, Selangor

Telephone & Fax No.: +60 3 87406041

Mobile No: +60 129813365 / +60125383365

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6 Reasons That Makes a Maid Quit Before Finishing Her Contract

Agensi Pekerjaan Danu Gemilang Sdn Bhd

Maid Agency in Malaysia

 

http://dgmaidagency.com.my

 

Business Address

H-38-1B, Jalan Prima Saujana 2/D, Prima Saujana 43000 Kajang, Selangor

Telephone & Fax No.: +60 3 87406041

Mobile: +60 125383365

Email: info@dgmaidagency.com.my

 

6 Reasons That Makes a Maid Quit Before Finishing Her Contract

It’s pretty common how often you hear employers complaining about their maid leaving before they finish their 2 years contact. It will give them a lot of trouble if their maids choose to end their contract prematurely. Terminating the contracts are so costly in terms of money and time when a maid walking out the door. A simple search by internet brings dozens of websites that have mentioned problem maids in Malaysia and there are a lot of complains by employers. Although most of them are true story, but, do maids really terminate contract without any reason?

Employers tend to blame everyone and everything under the sun, while ignoring the main reasons: maids quit mostly because of some circumstances. The sad thing is that this can be avoided.  Families as an employer may need to consider some potential condition on their part to reduce the possibility of terminating contract by a domestic helper. Besides providing some compulsory things like paying salary, food, shelter, and rest; there are some other potential issues that cause a maid to leave employer’s house. Understanding the situations and preventing them, that employers may do that to make a domestic helper packing their bag, would help them in saving money and time specially for families which they pay service fee a lot to Malaysian Maid Agencies.

1. Overwork

Nothing makes a good maid frustrated to quite like forcing them to overwork. It’s so tempting to compel your maid for extra work that employers frequently fall into this trap. Extra work is confusing; they might feel as if they’re being punished for great performance. Overworking is also inefficient. It is proven that productivity per hour declines sharply when the work exceeds the certain times, and productivity drops off that you don’t get anything out of working more. They probably won’t stay if they must work constantly without rest. Simply increasing their workload because they do not complain, without changing a thing, they will eventually seek a reason to get out of your house.

2. Communicate with maid

Employers need to communicate with their maid to find out what makes them feel good. Communication is an absolute necessary leadership discipline. It doesn’t matter you manage a domestic helper or a professional person. Communication leads to influence on her attitudes in the ways that would help her the most. Maids whose hard work is recognised mostly are more positive and helpful– they are motivated to maintain or even improve their good work in order to gain more recognition and then to reward them for a job well done. It would misinterpret when you tell them “they get for what you do”. It’s easy to underestimate the power of a “pat on the back”, especially with top performers who are intrinsically motivated. Employers should consider a foreign domestic helper comes from another country. Both the employer and the maid have different culture and speak another variety of English. All the cultural and linguistic differences may cause misinterpretation for example pronunciation, intonation, syllabic stresses and rhetoric. Employers should describe about their main culture and life style in advance while understanding the maid’s culture so the maid could reduce misconducting. 

3. Care about your maid

Majority of maids who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their employers. Humanity and treat them well must be in the centre of all the relationships. It’s impossible to work for someone eight-plus hours a day and live with them 24 hours when employers aren’t personally involved and don’t care about anything other than the job. Employer who fail to really care will always have high rate of termination contract by maids.

4. Honour your commitments

Making promises to a maid places employers on the fine line that lies between making them very happy or watching them walk out the door. When you uphold a commitment, you grow in the eyes of your housemaid because you prove yourself to be trustworthy and honourable. But when you disregard your commitment, you come across your word uncaring, and disrespectful. After all, if the employer doesn’t honour what they promises, must ask themselves why the maid should does.

5. Wrong maid for a wrong situation

We can only be certain about a person’s behaviour and attitude a long time after being with her. Behaviour is a subjective matter, what is sensitive for you others may consider it. However, it is very important to screen potential maids thoroughly and scrutinise them before hiring. Recruitment agencies may do some background research, personality test, and even train them generally, matching a maid with a family to work and live with is not that simple. Every family has their own specific life style, attitude and environment. Employer knows well the entire of the family and the work situation, so they should explain clearly and truly while interviewing a maid to get a good feedback. The job offer should be prepared in details as well. For example, when a maid find herself doing things that are too easy or boring, Vis versa the job is very difficult, they seek for other situation.

6. Pay Attention to maid

When employers are asked about their inattention to a maid, they try to excuse themselves, using words such as “trust,” “autonomy,” and “empowerment.” This is complete nonsense. Good employer always care, no matter how a maid is good. Employer should pay attention and are constantly listening and giving feedback.

When you have a good maid, it’s up to you to keep finding areas in which they can improve to expand their skill set. Everyone at work want feedback—and its employer’s job to keep it coming. If you don’t, your best maid will grow bored and self-satisfied.

Bringing It All Together

If employers want their best maid to stay, they need to think carefully about how to treat them well. While good maids are as tough as nails, their official employment contracts (especially contracts with Philippine Embassy: (POEA) gives them an abundance of options. Employers need to make them “want and willing” to work.

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Employer’s Required Documents for Maid (Philippine Maid) Visa application:  http://dgmaidagency.com.my/

1)    Local/Malaysian

i)       Married:

ii)    Single:

2)    MM2H:

3)     PR:

4)    RP:

5)    Expatriate:

  

1)    Local/Malaysian

1-1           Married Employers:

·        NRIC copy of the employer and spouse

·        Passport size photo of the employer and the spouse

·        Proof of Income of the employer or combine with the spouse  must be above 5,000 Ringgit per month

·        Proof of  latest Income ( LHDN / EA / EC / PENSION / IRB / IR8 A / EPF STATEMENT and  RECEIPTS

·        Supporting documents ( E-filling statement  and receipts / latest bank statement / employment confirmation and latest 3 months salary slip)

·        Marriage cert

·        Reason of applying a Maid in Malaysia is for:

(1) Taking care of children

v Children birth cert under 15 yrs old

(2) Taking care of spouse

v Original Medical Certificate from Government hospital or Specialist

(3) Taking care of Parent

v Original Medical certificate from Government hospital or Specialist

v IC copy of the stated patient

v Birth cert of the employer

(4) Taking care of Parent In-law

v Original medical certificate from  Government hospital or specialist

v IC copy of the stated patient

v Birth cert of the spouse of employer

(5) Big House

v Photos of the house  ( for landed house : Bungalow / 2 or 3 storey house)

i.       Frontal view of the house (the house number must be visible in the photograph

ii.     Interior of the house

iii.  Street name

v Photos of the house ( for condominium / Pent house)

i.       Frontal view of the door ( the door number must be visible in the photograph)

ii.     Interior of the unit

iii.  Frontal view of the condo ( the condo name must be visible in the photograph

iv.  Street name

(6) Copy of Latest Electricity bill – proof of employer current address

v In case the TNB billing name is different person

i.       IC copy of the stated name on the TNB bill

ii.     If  the TNB bill under the parent /parent in-law name ; must submit a birth cert of the child of the stated person in the TNB bill

iii.  If the TNB bill under the house / condo owner: must submit the copy of latest Tenancy agreement.

Ø Additional documents under 2^nd maid application:

ü Reason for 1^st maid ( take care of children or take care of sick spouse or  Elderly care)

ü 1^st maid copy of passport and latest visa

ü Reason for 2^nd maid (  take care of sick spouse or Elderly care or Big house)

ü Proof of income of the employer or combine with the spouse must be above 10,000 Ringgit per month

1-2 Under Local/Malaysian - Single Employers:

·        NRIC copy of the employer

·        Passport size photo of the employer

·        Proof of Income of the employer must be above 5,000 Ringgit per month

·        Proof of  latest Income ( LHDN / EA / EC / PENSION / IRB / IR8 A / EPF STATEMENT and  RECEIPTS

·        Supporting documents ( E-filling statement  and receipts / latest bank statement / employment confirmation and latest 3 months salary slip)

·        Affidavit of Singleness ( Surat Berkaun)-  with commission of oath

·        Reason of applying Maid for:

(1) Taking care of children

v Children birth cert under 15 yrs old

(2) Taking care of the employer

v Original Medical Certificate from Government hospital or Specialist

(3) Taking care of Parent

v Original Medical certificate from Government hospital or Specialist

v IC copy of the stated patient

v Birth cert of the employer

(4) Big House

v Photos of the house  ( for landed house : Bungalow / 2 or 3 storey house)

iv.  Frontal view of the house (the house number must be visible in the photograph

v.     Interior of the house

vi.  Street name

v Photos of the house ( for condominium)

v.     Frontal view of the door ( the door number must be visible in the photograph)

vi.  Interior of the unit

vii.                        Frontal view of the condo ( the condo name must be visible in the photograph

viii.                     Street name

(5) Copy of Latest Electricity bill – proof of employer current address

v In case the TNB billing name is different person

ü IC copy of the stated name on the TNB bill

ü If  the TNB bill under the parent ; must submit birth cert of the employer

ü If the TNB bill under the house / condo owner: must submit the copy of latest Tenancy agreement.

2)    Employers under Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H):

·        Passport Copy and Latest MM2H Visa of the employer and the spouse

·        Passport size photo of the employer and the spouse

·        Copy of Marriage cert ( in English translation )

·        Passport copy and latest MM2H Visa of the children below 15 yrs of age

·        Copy of the MM2H approval letter

·        Copy of SNP

·        Copy of the latest Electricity bill

3-    Employers under Permanent Resident (PR):

·        Copy of  Red IC of the Employer and the spouse

·        Passport size photo of the employer and the spouse

·        Copy of marriage cert ( in English Translation)

·        Copy of Proof of Income

·        Copy of Red IC and Children birth cert below 15 yrs of age

·        Copy of latest Electricity bill

·        Copy of SNP

4-    Employers under Resident Pass (RP):

·        Passport copy and latest visa of the employer and spouse

·        Passport size photo of the employer and the spouse

·        Copy of marriage cert ( in English translation)

·        Passport copy and latest visa of the children below 15 yrs of age

·        Latest copy of the TNB bill

·        Copy of Tenancy agreement or SNP

·        Proof of income ( latest 3 months salary slip)

5-    Employers under Expatriate ( MIDA/MDEC/Putrajaya):

·        Passport copy and latest visa of the employer and spouse

·        Passport size photo of the employer and the spouse

·        Copy of Marriage cert ( in English translation)

·        Passport copy and latest visa of the children below 15 yrs of age

·        Latest copy of TNB bill

·        Copy of the Tenancy agreement – as proof of address

·        Confirmation letter from the company of the employer address to immigration office:

i.       Employment certificate

ii.     Allowing the employer to process his maid visa application

·        Latest 3 months salary slip of the employer