Local Family Laments Maid's Non-Appearance
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - Local families who intend to employ foreign domestic maids are urged to carefully search for serious ones as there were instances where such workers ran away to their friends so they could find better jobs even before they were scheduled to start working.

A local family made a police report in Berakas Wednesday evening after their employment agent told them that the domestic worker who was to start working for them last December 1 had run away fromm the agent's house.

"I was expecting the agent to send the maid to me on December 1," said the prospective employer. "However, the agent could not do so as the amah had disappeared from the house."

"I was relieved that the agent was able to find a replacement amah for us. We then cancelled the work pass of the (first) maid on Wednesday morning," he added.

"However, we were worried because the amah did not board the ferry to Labuan on her way home to Zamboanga, Philippines on December 7, even though she managed to receive her passport and ferry tickets to go home."

Acting on the advice of the Philippines Embassy in Brunei Darussalam, the family later made a police report to protect them.

"A police report was needed because in the amah's passport, my name appeared as the last person she worked for," said the homeowner.

"But what happened is that she never started working for us on December 1 even though we had met the maid a few week's earlier at the Labour Department to sign an employment contract."

"We even lost sums of money such as with the workmanship compensation insurance which we took out for her," he said.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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