Term 3 Week 1 Assignment

  In my opinion, maids should be given day offs while working in Singapore. There are 3 reasons why I feel that it should be this way. The first is that like any other working adults, maids should be given holidays, or 'leave' days to rest. Secondly, the maid's mental health will suffer if they were to be cooped up in a house all day. Finally, if no holidays were to be given, lesser people would be willing to be maids due to the lousy working conditions.
  In my opinion, maids should be given holidays as they are normal people like everybody else, they need breaks and rest days. Maids are not robots. They have emotions too. If maids were to work everyday without any breaks at all, not only will their health take a turn for the worse, their mental health will too. This not only is a bad thing for their owners as they will have to pay for the maid's medical fee, but the maid will suffer too. Therefore, having rest day for the maids is important.
  Next, maids should be given holidays as if they do not, their mental health will worsen as they will be forever cooped up in the house they are taking care off. Constantly staying at home may mean that more work gets down, but as such the maid's mental health may worsen. It is like living in a jail cell. The maid already is separated from her family, but to also be separated from the whole outside world is a fate just about as bad as being in jail, and the maid does not deserve such treatment. They have human rights and thus they should also be given holidays.
  Finally, maids should be given holidays as lesser people would be willing to become maids without them. They would be less willing to work as maid's in Singapore as they know that being a maid in other countries gives them roughly the same pay but with better working conditions. This will result in the increase of hiring a maid. The increase cost of hiring a maid would mean that the owners will not be as nice to them, and the cycle will just repeat until nobody wants to work as a maid before, and by then, more problems will arise.
  With the above reasons, I strong feel that maids should be given holidays.