SinGov: No Mandatory Rest Days for Maids

Singapore government cites families with "special needs" as the reason not to legislate mandatory off days for domestic maids. MP Mr Hawazi explains these special needs as coming from some elderly and the infirm who needs constant attention.

Choosing to cater to a very small minority (elderly and the infirm who needs constant attention and cannot be taken care of by their families) as an excuse to deny the rights of other human beings is horrific. This reason fails to justify to any degree why such laborers are not protected and given equal rights as other laborers. It shows a misplaced sympathy only for those who are receiving the care of the maids. This is a selfish and bigoted response to ensuring that the costs of taking care of the elderly and maintaining a nuclear family (so that all working adults can be dutifully employed to oil the economic machinery) are only taken at the expense of our so called foreign talent. This is why Singapore will never become a first world country.

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