More countries deploying Filipinos household service workers (HSWs) are complying with the minimum wage set by the Philippine Overseas employment Administration (POEA) in its reform package for HSWs.

Apart from Saudi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Singapore government also increases the monthly minimum salary of foreign domestic helpers to SGD500 or USD400.

The Secretary of the Labor Department, Rosalinda Baldoz, lauds the move of Singapore and cited a report from the Association of Licensed Recruitment Agencies for Singapore, Inc., which states that this new development complies with the HSW reform package which sets USD400 as the monthly minimum salary for Filipino HSWs.

Singapore is a hotspot on the radar of bright young professionals chasing new and exciting career opportunities. New jobs in innovative industries are being created as some of the world’s biggest multinationals like IBM, Seiko Epson, ExxonMobil, 3M and Abbott Laboratories continue to make multi-million dollar capital investments in Singapore.

Even professionals who have never considered working abroad, like Filipino Jan Clarence Lim, who recently completed her MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, are finding the work opportunities hard to resist. Reluctant at first to move away from the comforts of home, she is discovering, quite pleasantly, how convenient and easy it is to live in Singapore.

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