Expatriate Forums in Malaysia

frankteh · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: Good Maid Agencies

Hi, this is Frank, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good maid agencies.

Thx.

DaveB · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

Not enough experience to know how good they are, but I have started using www.ptmaids.com

So far used twice - Indonesians who don't speak English & my Malay doesn't extend to anything useful for domestic situations. They also tend to think that wet=clean so as long as they have wiped an area it must be clean even if the stain still shows underneath.

Still, early days & the price seems ok to me with no hassles of worrying about work permits, etc.

What I really need is someone to come around to the house & give me Malay lessons, maybe while the maid is there! Smile

cvco · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:15 am Post subject:

Id say you dont have to worry about malay language in this case, you can hire filipino maids as they all speak English. I could make some recommendations if you need one.

I went to PTMaids.com and my take on this is that they are selling customers illegal maids, that is, maids without workpasses and customers can wind up in mountains of trouble.

You say you dont want the hassle of a workpass but people cant work legally in Malaysia without one. The maid, part-time or not, is working in your house. Where is the stamp in her passport showing she is assigned to you? Agencies cannot legally send you a part-time maid, they can only, legally, employ that maid to work in their company, not your house or anyplace else and the visa in the worker's passport reflects that.

Agencies can, of course, sell you a fulltime maid and they do the paperwork for a visa and the visa has your name on it. Thats correct. Or, you find your own maid and do the paperwork in Putrajaya yourself. Great.

Also, in case it matters to anyone, part-time maids coming out of agencies are often highly mistreated by the agencies, like sleeping on floors in bare apartments at night, 15-20 girls in such an apartment that doesnt even have a frig or furniture. They are all illegal and cant complain to anyone. Please dont support this kind of treatment.

That being said, the govt probably wont send anyone to your house to search for illegal workers unless a neighbor complained, and there are many legit workers that take extra partime work on the weekends. So, care has to be used in this whole matter.

DaveB · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject: