Under the Household Services Scheme, hiring of migrant workers for part-time domestic services is allowed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - More than 20,000 households in Singapore are currently estimated to be engaging part-time cleaning help, facilitated by a growing pool of service providers.which allows for the hiring of migrant workers to provide part-time domestic services.
"While households with heavier domestic and caregiving needs may still need migrant domestic helpers, households with lighter needs may enjoy cost savings by engaging HSS services on a part-time basis instead," he said. Dr Tan said his ministry is looking at broadening the scope of the scheme to include basic child-minding and elder-minding services to encourage more households to consider using HSS services.
HSS firms are currently allowed to hire female workers from Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand. A newer HSS player is social enterprise One Heart Cleaning, which employs former offenders and people with disabilities for commercial or ad-hoc professional cleaning jobs.
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