By Isabelle Lai
The Star/Asia News Network
PETALING JAYA - For Cambodians Nhoem Synoeurn and Sonya, working as maids in Malaysia is a job they are contented with thanks to their kind employers.
Nhoem, 20, has been with her employer in Subang Jaya for more than two years and counts her blessings that she and Sonya, who goes by a single name, are treated "like family".
"I came to Malaysia to earn a living and learn the culture. Before coming here, I was afraid I would have bad employers," she said, adding that she appreciated the respect, freedom and trust given to her.
Nhoem, who could communicate adequately in English, said she did not agree with her government's decision to ban incoming maids as her fellow citizens needed to earn a living.
"I decided to return and work for the same family after completing my contract as I do not earn enough as a farmer in Cambodia," she said, adding that she was showing the ropes to 18-year-old Sonya who arrived here a few months ago.
Sonya is working for the brother of Nhoem's employer. Both brothers stay in the USJ 2 neighbourhood.
Their father, Jason Ong, 60, is referred to as ah gong (grandpa) by the two maids.
Ong said it was vital for people to understand that maids were not "second-class human beings".
"Employers must respect and appreciate their maids. They should not flare up over mistakes but patiently teach them.
"Maids are not robots and they get a culture shock when they first arrive here," he said yesterday.
Ong added that the Cambodian ban would not solve the problem as both sides would suffer Malaysians from a maid shortage crisis and Cambodians who were deprived of employment.
"What Malaysia and Cambodia should do is work out a strict control system to weed out the bad sheep. These abusive employers should be blacklisted so they cannot hire maids in future," he said, adding that these individuals had caused other employers to suffer a bad image as well.
8 comments:
Yes, i do support you ideas Mr. Ong. But as you know it is very hard to find the good employer that deeply understand the difficulty of maids like you. Because Cambodian gov't has a very poor control on these case that's why they decided to ban the next workers.
As you most people just think about money freak!They are not care any things.
In Asian culture we tend to bow and respect to the employers for survival. We're scare of them as they have more power to get rid of us anytime. But, it is opposite to the Western world as the United States of America.
We value the employers as the equal partner as employees because they need us to work and make money for them and we need them to pay us to live.
So we never bow them as we encounter them. The most we need to do is to say "Hello or Good morning Mr. Such and Such" or you don't need to address by Mr. just call him or her by name. American don't want you to respect them with the title (Mr. or Mrs).
In conclusion Don't be afraid your employers
5:03!Ah Kwack should not only ban! but try to creat job for people! And mother fucker should stop stealing land from peole and give to the fucking vietnamese ah youn motherfucker!
Phnom Penh is famous as Lexis City where most car are expensive .
In constrast,most Malaysian in Kulua Lumpur drive small car like Tico.
It is very ashamed to send Khmer girls to work as maid in Malaysia.
Judging from the type of car they drive,Malaysia should send their people to the Weird Kingdom .
10:35! No one sent them to Malaysia! the run overthere to be maids themselves !!!!
They (the Cambodian girls) have nothing to eat at home because those lexis you saw sucking their liverlyhood!
These girls are lucky to have the Chinese ethnic as employer. If their employers were Malays and muslims, they would have been treated like dogs. Muslims people really hate non-muslim people. They call us the "non-believers".
of course, not all are bad, but the one that had already abused and damaged to the maids should be brought to justice!
BS! PR Stunt indeed! Really? Malaysia is suffering from a lack of maids? Does that sound right to you? These agencies/employers are making money off these poor women' hard work. In return they treat them like shit and rapes them. Where the fuck is the labor laws between countries oh yeah..its non-existent. It's sad to see that my people is so desperate that they must look for work else where out of their home, Srok Khmai. Fuck all these sick bastards and there fucking allah.
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