Before Hire a Maid from Abroad
Before employing maid from abroad, if you can get well prepared, understanding your need with full consideration on all aspects such as application qualification, application procedures, knowledge on related laws and regulations, dispute on labor and capital as well as how to establish sound relationship in the employment, the possibility of future problem in your family can be greatly reduced. We will provide you with detailed information for the reference of all those intent to employ or already employed with maid from abroad. We hope you can find a gratified maid and could have the problem solved timely icase of any problem.
Understand your family demand
You have to clearly understand the demand of your family, who will be the major one to be cared, as the demand may be different in different time. For instance, to take care a newly born enfant requires maid with related experience so as to provide professional nurse and attendance. To take care a child of several years old, a younger maid can be selected so as to have enough energy to take care and to play with the child. If you want your child to have the chance for English practice, a Philippine maid with better English can be selected as they often with higher education and better English. Therefore, to understand your need as well as the characteristic of maid from different country will be the first step to find a gratified maid.
For Employer
You have to consider whether you have the need to employ a maid and the consent from every member of the family as everything may be changed such as life custom and security as the add-in of a maid, and these changes are often easy to cause dispute in between.
Accommodation Arrangement
You have to consider whether your living environment can accept a maid. Based on the government regulation, maid must have one fixed bed, sleeping at living room, underground, and kitchen or with adult in opposite sex will not be acceptable. Moreover, under narrow living condition, everybody will lose private secret, it is easier to create dispute.
Requirement on Family Income
The family income of employer shall not be less than HK$180,000.00 or equivalent assets in deposit, sufficient to pay the employment within the entire contract period. Employer may use tax bill, fixed deposit, monthly issued bankbook or interest bill as the certificate for income, and bill from private company is not applicable. In case any income certificate or address certificate other than the name of the employer or company, certificate such as marriage license, birth certification or annual application form is required to verify the relationship.
| For Employee | |
| 1. | Annual salary on the tax bill shall not be less than HK$180,000.00 |
| 2. | Fixed deposit HK$360,000.00 or above |
| 3. | Or monthly salary HK$15,000.00 or above |
| For Self-employed | |
| 1. | Company income tax form |
| 2. | Certificate in certifying the relationship between employer and the company, such as: (Business Registration Certificate/Share Distribution Record 1(b)) |
| 3. | Fixed deposit/current deposit bill in the past 3 months must be over HK360,000 |
| 4. | Or the latest appraising notice for property tax |
| For retired or person without income | |
| 1 | Fixed deposit/current deposit bill in the past 3 months must be over HK360,000 |
| 2. | The latest appraising notice for property tax |
| 3. | Monthly income from property rent |
| 4. | Guaranteed by family income, the following documents shall be submitted by the warrantor: |
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*In case two maids will be employed, the required annual salary or fixed deposit shall be doubled and be analogized in the same for more.
Habitation Requirement
The employer shall arrange a suitable habitation for the maid in proper private protection such as an independent room, or share the room with child or adult of the same gender, no sharing room with adult in opposite gender is allowed.
For the address applied in the employment contract, it can be verified by any payment bill, water bill, electricity bill, gas bill, home telephone bill or cable TV bill of recent 3 months. In case public house is rented by the employer, leasing contract as well as consent on temporary stay from the associated house administration office (permit of temporary stay).
| Address Certificate | |
| For self-procured private house | |
| Water bill, electricity bill, gas bill, home telephone bill or cable TV bill of recent 3 months | |
| For self-procured public house | |
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| For rented private house (bill in the name of the owner) | |
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| For rented private house (bill in the name of the employer) | |
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