labor right house maid?

Question

well friends!
im sri lankan my friend phillipines had house maid. she was working to my friend phillipines house than she stop work and now maid asking money and the house maid compline and make statment agains to my friend phillipine. she help a lot to that house maid when she was working to my friend. suported by money and things what she wanted. in sri lanka have no rolls for house maid but she receivd letter from labor department to invetigate about this metter. my qution is how this department can send letter with out low rights? also that house maid have no work agrement or any other avidance accept maid freind who work neighbour. so please tell me the the way to pace to this bad situation thank u im rishdan

Answer 1

When you contract somebody to perform a service for you, they are not your friend. At least in the USA a house maid is in a lot of cases a business owner, and you are the customer and they are in the performance of their duties, and nothing goes beyond that simple business relationship.

Perhaps things are different in the Phillipines, but here in the USA when a person performs services in exchange for money, that person needs a business license to do so, and this makes them a business owner.

Although the business owner performs duties much like an employee, the rank of a business owner is considerably higher than that of an employee, because the business owner is an important person. Not to forget that a business would not survive without a customer, the customer is also very important. In a customer to employee relationship, the customer is always right and the customer is above the employee in rank, but once we arrive at the business owner's position, the rank issue tends to equalize.

While some folks may feel that as customers they are above the business owner, other folks feel that the business owner is above them. However, in a relationship with a business owner and a customer, neither is above the other, both the owner and the customer are equal in rank and position.

Evidently your housemaid could use this experience as well, because it is her duty as a business owner to foresee these issues and not to enter into a business relationship where such an issue could present a problem, as you can see, it is not productive for either of you.

Now I would tell the labor department there exists no contract and this is all one big mistake. You may have to go one step further and say you know nothing about this, it is sad that it has come to this, but it's no more your fault than it is hers.