SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic helper who borrowed $3,000 from an external moneylender decided she did not want to pay the 10 per cent administrative fee she was charged and hurled vulgarities at them.
She added that she only found out her helper took a loan when the loan agency messaged her. “I’m in shock and upset that my helper never mentioned to me about such loan”, the woman wrote, saying that there was a possibility her maid might have also borrowed money from more than one source.“I have a few questions:
2) Is it that easy for helpers to lend money online? As the loan agency told me she did it online”, the woman asked others in the group. Last month, another frustrated employer took to social media complaining about her domestic helper who had been lying to them. In an anonymous post to a Facebook group for both employers and helpers alike, the woman wrote: “My helper has been lying to us from day one of her contract”. She added that her maid was ending her contract early, which the family did not mind.