Myanmar hopes for Singapore MOU to better protect domestic maids

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Myanmar wants to initiate an agreement with Singapore, to offer better protection for its domestic maids working in the city-state.

The Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation hopes to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its counterpart, the Association of Employment Agencies Singapore in one to two months.

The federation has already signed an MOU with one of its counterparts in Hong Kong.

Singapore is home to over 30,000 Myanmar maids but many of them don't have proper approval from the Myanmar government to work overseas. They have little recourse, if employers mistreat or deprive them of proper salaries.

The federation hopes an MOU will stipulate clauses like minimum pay, official days off and legal redress.