Agree. No need to refer to their home address to buy ticket.
For terminated maids, especially the ones who resign herself, I only bought Manila for Bunbun and Jakarta for Yanyan.
I fired my last Bunbun who worked in my house for 2.5 months. She lived in Davao. I only bought Cebu Pacific to Manila with no luggage for her. You can check Davao in Wikipedia. It takes about 9 hour coach from Manila to Davao. 9-hour travel by coach is not uncommon in a large country. For example, we can go to the Northern Guangdong by coach in about 9 hours. Therefore, I just gave my last bunbun $200 as two day travel allowance. This was done according to the law. She could not claim me.
For the Yanyan now working for me, she resigned after working one month. I do not care where she lives. I will buy Jakarta with Cathay Pacific using visa, as advised by BK mamis, so that she cannot get the refund. There is no need to scare about them. This yanyan who came to HK in September. I did not check where she lives, but check the indonesia stamp in her passport that she departed from Jakarta to HK. In fact, there is no need to check where she lives. She must depart from Jakarta. Will the agency buy a ticket from her homeplace to HK? Of course not, they usually take sea and land transport to Jakarta and are sent to HK with the cheapest route. So I have copied the passport stamp from Jakarta. How can she claim me if she came here from Jakarta? If she is good, you can give her $300 for 3-day travel allowance. If terminated, at best give her $200. If she argues, give her $100 more then.