Last Friday, when I open the warerobe, I discovered my t-shirt was damage, there is a plastic brand name on the t-shirt, the plastic is black colour was melt and sticked other blue colour, I found the blue colour is same to the iron. I remember the t-shirt was hand-wash by my maid. So I asked her what'd happen? She said she did't iron the plastic brand name. So I ask her why is like that and she is slient. I am angry because she didn't tell me when the clothe is damage by her ironing. Everything is discovered by myself. On the other day, I told her "you must tell me first rather than I find it by myself", she said "OK". I deceide to deduct her salary to compensate my clothe. Actually it is not the first time to damage my clothes. But it is the first time to deduct her salary. But my hubby disagree I deduct her salary. If you were me, will you deduct her salary?
you must first of all ask her to make a written statement of the wrong that she has committed including that she did not report to you the damage of the T-shirt and cover the situation by putting it back to the wardrobe, as if there were nothing happen. She should also acknowlege that the employer has the right to deduct an appropriate sum from her salary in accordance with the regulations. Depends on her performance later, you can chose to deduct a sum from her salary or not.
This happened to the Levis tee bought from Japan for my daughter too. I didn't discover it until we were in the street.
It 's really disgusting and hateful that those stupid maids always try to hide and cover up their faults. They just use stiupid methods and lies cos they think their moms are Lulu and they themselves are clever.
Maybe you do not hire maid before. You don't understand the real situation. I hired Indo and Philippino maids before and their behaviour were just rediculous and made employers very 興!!!!!!!
I dont think that this topic is disgusting as the issue happen very often particularly for those who hire overseas maids. I think foremind is overreacted. From the responses so far, they are reasonable and I think that maids have an obligation to deliever their service good and not 'destroying' things. However, to most mum's dissatisfaction, their maids done the domestic chores in a careless manner, commit mistakes and tried to cover it. They are indeed, first of all did not do their duties well and second dishonest by hiding the mistakes. Also,for some maids, despite repeated warnings, they commit the same mistakes and for these kind of things, I think that to deduct an appropriate sum from their salary in accordance with the regulations/ordinance is very reasonable. Actually, when you read the ordinance, it actually confers employer's right to deduct salary if the employee damaged the things of their employer during work. I think all moms here are very reasonable and are real good employers.