My Kakak Employment Agency

15/03/2020

In the light of COVID-19 development in countries such as Indonesia and Philippines, delay sourcing and placement is expected.

In view of the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will introduce new measures for Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs). The new measures take into consideration that FDWs live with families and many look after young...

07/07/2019

Having the same passion to interact, serve and empower lives - believing you can contribute positively to the maid industry?

If this is you, WE WANT YOU!

Send your cv to [email protected]

04/05/2019

Screening, knowing and striving to match good and compatible helpers to families are far more important than advertising and lip service to win quick deals. Maid agency is definitely not a "trading" business where we trade helpers like as if they are commodities.

SINGAPORE: Employment agency SRC Recruitment was fined S$78,000 on Tuesday (Apr 30) after uploading insensitive advertisements of foreign domestic ...

16/04/2019

We are always on a look out for good helpers for our LOCAL & EXPAT employers!

Free registration! Speak to us (via private message) or make an appointment to visit us @ Tanglin Shopping Center #02-34 on your off days.

My Kakak Employment Pte Ltd (Lic No: 16C8468)

23/12/2018

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of these happy ladies all wrapped up in love!

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!!!!

15/07/2018

"... she did not conduct a screening of the girl, nor did she carry out any form of basic interviews with her to ask about her family history, the ages of her parents and siblings, her educational history and work experience" ... such are common practices among employment agencies these days as many seek for quick turnover.

We are not in a 'human trading' business and human are not commodity, it has its complexity and we need to run this human business with good ethical standard. Good employment agencies must do our due diligence to conduct stringent verification to ensure law compliance and screening to match employer's needs; we should not choose to rely on the information in the girl's biodata provided by our oversea agent and the girl's passport, which had an inaccurate date of birth.

SINGAPORE: The sole proprietor of an employment agency who brought in a 13-year-old girl from Myanmar to work as a maid in Singapore was given the ...

24/05/2018

The minimum legal age to work as a domestic helper in Singapore is 23 years old.

SINGAPORE: Two employment agencies were charged on Thursday (May 24) in separate cases of breaching employment agency licence conditions by ...

13/05/2018

Wise helpers know that the social media these days can create delusions, and if one is not careful, she will fall victim to an emotional and mental prison within herself by comparing herself with others. In life, everyone has their own battle and every battle is unique. In times of confusion, disappointments or challenges, instead of posting to the social media and/or taking advice from unqualified source, speak to a qualified and unbiased advisor.

Here in myKakak, we believes good agencies have an important part to play in supporting good employers and good helpers with unbiased yet professional advisory.

We are aware of a Facebook post about the well-being of a foreign domestic worker (FDW), Istiqomah Penindasan. The post in the Facebook group “FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum)” said that Istiqomah never received her salary from her employer for 1.5 years, never ate rice, was confined in her employer’s house, never held her handphone and was working non-stop.

The claims are unsubstantiated.

MOM had spoken to Istiqomah and will be interviewing the neighbour’s FDW, who uploaded the Facebook post, to clarify on her post.

The facts are as follows:

Istiqomah received all her salary during her period of employment, and has an agreement with her employer to remit part of her salary back home at the end of every month. She was given rice, meat and vegetables for her meals, as well as bread and biscuits if she needed more food. She had access to the house keys and could leave her employer’s house as and when she wanted to. Her employer had initially given her a used mobile phone at the start of her employment, but she subsequently decided to purchase her own, which she was able to use at all times. In her interview with us, Istiqomah also confirmed that she had sufficient rest and was not overworked.

We urge all FDWs and members of the public to report any well being issues directly to MOM or the organisations below, rather than to post them on social media. In this way, we can verify the accuracy of the information and offer assistance to FDWs more quickly.

08/05/2018

😱 what will you do if you confront with one cobra?

A cobra that wandered into a landed property home near Dover MRT yesterday morning was clubbed to death by the family's maid. Mr Carlos Chua, 19, a full-time national serviceman, said he told his family to stay indoors and to leash the family's 12-year old beagle when he...

12/04/2018

During the Budget speech on Feb 19, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said there is a need to ensure foreign domestic worker demand is commensurate with need, and avoid an overdependency on them.

Now, the government is definitely hunting down hard on illegal part time activities by foreign domestic workers. Helpers should be mindful that internet has let us connect so closely to the world today, FB groups and forums that help the public to seek for part time helpers could have been closely watched by the authorities. You may change your name, but you can never be too sure if you will always be this lucky. The customer(s) who employed you illegally will also be brought to task for breaking the law.

Employers, on the other hand, should never encourage or allow their helper to take illegal part time works so that they can earn more and you give less. When you allow your helper to clean the household of your extended families (whether you motivate them by token of reward or not) with an intention to help your extended families to relief their household cleaning needs, you are signalling to them "it is ok to break the law working in another households".

If in doubts, employers and helpers can always speak to your good employment agency to discuss whether there is a possible risk of breach on any relevance employment laws of Singapore.

We believe that in general, good employers love to hire a good helper who is serious to provide their family back home, would devote herself to work well for and being part of the employer's family. We are sure you can make a choice to be one of those good employers and good helpers, while we (mykakak) would do our part to be a good agency serving your interests best 🙏🏻😊

Some foreign domestic workers have turned to taking up part-time jobs to earn extra income, at times even with the help of employers or employment agencies. But if caught, they could be fined up to S$20,000 or jailed.

10/04/2018

Simple day + simple fun that lead to simple happiness.