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Indonesia seeks ban on dangerous window cleaning after 8 maids fall to death in Singapore

08 May 2012 7:51 PM | IJCSA - (Administrator)
(The Straits Times, Nuria Ling/ Associated Press ) - In this Feb. 18, 2011 photo, maids clean the floors of a local training facility in Singapore. Singapore is under pressure to improve the working conditions of foreign maids, who live full-time in one in five households in the city-state of 5.2 million people. In March, the government pledged to mandate that maids must be allowed at least one day off a week starting next year.

SINGAPORE undefined Eight Indonesian maids have fallen to their deaths from high-rise apartments in Singapore this year, and the Indonesia Embassy said Tuesday it is pushing for a ban on cleaning outside windows.

Indonesia, which supplies about half of Singapore’s 200,000 maids, has asked employment agencies to include a clause in work contracts that prohibits maids from cleaning the outside of windows or hanging laundry from high-rise apartments, Indonesian Embassy Counsellor Sukmo Yuwono told the Associated Press.

(Brings A New Meaning To I Don`t Do Windows)

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