PETALING JAYA: People have been urged to seek alternative ways to manage their households without solely depending on foreign maids.
“The cost of employing maids is going to shoot up in the near future. We cannot continue to expect cheap labour and be too dependent on domestic workers from other countries,” Malaysian Association of Foreign Maids Agencies (Papa) president Jeffrey Foo said, adding that there were about 10,000 Filipina maids in the country at the moment.
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