Monthly pay for Filipino maids to rise to at least S$550: report
Maids in Singapore. Photo: Yahoo Newsroom
Employers in Singapore will have to pay Filipino maids at least $550 per month, up from $500 a month, according to local media reports.
It would be the first minimum wage increase for Filipino maids in three years.
Maid agencies who submitted employment contracts to the Philippine embassy last week have had their contracts rejected as the salaries were too low, The Straits Times said in a news report on Thursday.
Philippine labour officials contacted by Yahoo have yet to confirm the increase.
The reported increase comes after an announcement from the Indonesian Embassy in November last year that the minimum salary for Indonesian maids would rise from $500 to $550 a month.
In December last year, the Philippine Embassy reportedly tightened restrictions on Filipinos coming to Singapore to work as domestic workers by processing only five employment contracts per employment agency each week.
The last increase for Filipino maids occurred in 2012, when their monthly pay in Singapore went up to $500.
