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Read full article. More content below. Seah Kian Peng. Some have also raised concerns about the waiting list for subsidised elder sitting services, daycare centres and nursing homes, she added. The information can be verified by employment agencies through submitted health records, she added. Ms Nadia also suggested expanding the home caregiving grant by using a points system instead of separate financial and functional criteria to qualify.
Instead of placing a cap on the maximum number of transfers for a domestic helper, Ms Gan said that MOM has adopted the approach of making the information more transparent. Employers may access information relating to prospective workers' work experience, the types of households they have worked for, the length of each past employment and the reasons why they left employment.
With time, the information in the MDW employment history will become more comprehensive," said Ms Gan. The employer reference channel also allows prospective employers to contact former employers of workers, she said, adding that MOM will look into how it can raise awareness of these existing initiatives.
Ms Gan noted that more than 80 per cent of employers hire domestic workers with the help of a maid agency. For the remaining employers who prefer to hire workers directly to avoid incurring the additional cost of engaging an employment agency, disallowing them to do so would inadvertently increase the cost of hiring, she said.
Giving figures in Parliament, she said that over the past two years, the police investigated and issued warnings to 17 domestic workers for providing false information against their employers or household members.
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