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Two underage foreign domestic workers (FDWs) who were recently discovered in Singapore will still be able to seek work here when they become of age later on, even if they are currently barred from doing so and were sent home after being found. They were 13 years old — a full decade below the regulatory minimum age of 23, for any person from any country, to work here as a helper. They also happen to be the youngest-ever underage maids MOM says it has found in Singapore. According to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), the two girls, Naw Hla San and Htet Htet Phyo Wai, were discovered in conversations with ministry officers during their settling-in programme — a compulsory course all domestic workers must go through here before being able to start work with their local employers. As they had admitted to being 13 before they started work, they will in future be able to return to seek employment when they turn 23, the ministry confirmed. In response to Mothership’s queries about doubts raised following news of their employment agencies being hauled to court, MOM clarified that FDWs who confess to being underage before starting work can apply to come back once they turn 23. This serves to encourage FDWs to “step forward sooner rather than later”. Background: Agencies taken to courtThese two girls were brought in from Myanmar by two separate domestic helper employment agencies here — Casa Employment Specialist, as well as Vista Employment Services — which were last week, for the first time in Singapore’s history, charged in court for deploying underage domestic helpers.
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