Macau Daily Times
1 May 2008
Advocacy groups in Singapore have joined forces to launch on Thursday a call for foreign maids to get a regular day off.
Singapore in 2006 ruled out giving domestic helpers mandatory rest days, saying it would be inconvenient.
In a joint statement, the advocacy groups said about 170,000 migrant women work as maids in Singapore but only 50 percent were believed to get a regular day off, according to a 2003 newspaper poll which they cited.
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