Lack of knowledge...will coused slavery.....meybe if indonesian and Hk goverment....make more easier..agreement ...for indonesian migrant worker...will be better in advance....
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Lack of knowledge...will coused slavery.....meybe if indonesian and Hk goverment....make more easier..agreement ...for indonesian migrant worker...will be better in advance....
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Definitely worse, much worse in the middle eastern countries (employers there could withhold helper's passport and not let them leave). Still, no excuse. We don't owe headhunters any fees for placing us with a company, so don't see why these helpers need to pay the recruitment fee. So rotten
The worst part is not the agencies ( though they are bad ). The core problem lies with the people of Hong Kong and the self serving system that tolerates abuses of helpers that they otherwise wouldn't tolerate among "their own".
The fact Hong Kong people are "ok" with forcing helpers to live in. The fact there are no laws or restrictions on the amount of hours these helpers can be worked. That is the real problem. Helpers are clearly treated differently. Hong Kong people would not have the same lack of laws and protections if their own children had the potential to become helpers.
I'm just curious about two things...
1. To what extent is paying for the agency or the training (as mentioned in that video) any different than, say, the UK telling me I have to get a Tesol certificate for 800 pounds before hiring me to teach for 11.00 pounds an hour? (When I have years of teaching experience and a masters in linguistics.) I could also give some bad stories of Americans forking out thousands and thousands to get a bachelors degree that only leads to a job slightly above minimum wage -- they sign to take out massive bank loans when they are hardly old enough to even understand what interest is.
Clearly agencies should do their job to use good business practices and not change agreed-upon fees, etc., as LL100 described (which, to be bias myself, I don't find surprising from a Turkish person.. hmph!), and that should be more tightly regulated.
2. How can the issue of abuse in the home be addressed when the "workplace" for domestic helpers is a very intimate setting between the employer and employee? How much "abuse" happens internally within families/couples and to what extent is this "abuse" simply an extension of that bad behavior we exhibit with our families? How could you realistically resolve that or make people not be better employers when they have their employee around them at very personal times? Outside of our homes there is maybe more social pressure to behave better and more nicely, like in our office/work environments.