Don't let maids clean outside of windows: Halimah

The call went out on Sunday for employers not to insist that their domestic workers clean the outside of windows in high-rise homes.

Madam Halimah Yacob, the Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports, said there is no need for the outside of windows to be cleaned if they are already clean on the inside.

She was responding to reporters' questions about the seven maids who had fallen to their deaths so far this year while cleaning windows or hanging out the laundry.

Speaking on the sidelines of a graduation ceremony for Indonesian domestic workers who had earned academic qualifications at the Indonesian School here, she called for maids to be barred from opening window grilles and for employers to keep the keys to these grilles from their maids.

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