Firing a helper

[rani]

Sorry to steal your thread, Aussiegal.

Triptrap - Seems like you have experienced in terminating a dh. This is my first time and I am confused about the levy as I was told by my agent that the levy can only be transferred if my current maid is terminated before the visa for the new maid is approved. As I understand when the visa is issued, I have to pay the levy for the new maid. So how do I carry over the remainder of the levy to the new maid if my current maid is still working for us?

My parents just hired a new helper. Their current helper wanted to go home a couple months before her contract ended. Immigration didn't let them transfer the remaining levy either as the helper was not terminated until the replacement arrived in HK.

 

[aussiegal]

Hi Spockey, we have similar problems with our helper so we'll pass. We really need someone who has worked for a Western family before and as I work too, all be it from home I can't spend my day micro managing someone. Thanks anyway.

 

[becs]

We have done all the paperwork for our helper, she was let go, we hired her before her 14 days were up, she still needed to go back to the philippines and after processing of all the paperwork by the hong kong immigration and the philippine authorities it will be 6 weeks at the soonest that she can be back. Not sure if your helper to be can just go through immigration to get her visa stamped, is it different for diff situations?

She has 14 days from the day you fire her. If she can't find another employer within that time, she has to go back to the PH and try to find a new employer from there.

If she's good, she might find a new employer rather quick and just go quickly out of HK to get her new visa stamped.

 

[mailmail]

I think you have a choice of either letting her return home before new contract commences, or anytime within a year of working for you. Were you told of this choice?

 

[rani]

I think you have a choice of either letting her return home before new contract commences, or anytime within a year of working for you. Were you told of this choice?

Don't all terminated helpers have to go home, unless they've been let go for financial reasons or if their employers are leaving HK?

 

[aussiegal]

Becs, our helper actually left her previous employer so her sister could enter Hong Kong and take her job leaving her with 14 days to find a new employer. We told immigration that we needed her to start asap (I was pregnant and had a 13 month old son at the time) so she wasn't obliged to return home, she just had to wait two weeks for her new papers to be approved before starting with us. As Mailmail says, they just have to go back home within the year.

 

[mailmail]

Pretty sure there is such choice.

Don't all terminated helpers have to go home, unless they've been let go for financial reasons or if their employers are leaving HK?