Sentence examples for foreign maids from inspiring English sources

But the law allows foreign maids to be paid less than half the legal minimum wage, which is set at HK$28 $3.600) per hour.

In February, the Guardian reported that foreign maids, cleaners and other domestic workers were being subjected to slave-like labour conditions in Qatar.

In October, just after the Occupy protests began, Hong Kong's labour department announced that the minimum allowable wage (MAW) for foreign maids signing new contracts would be increased by HK$100 US$133) to $4,110 per month.

Government figures cited by a lower court in this case said an estimated 117,000 foreign maids had been in Hong Kong for that length of time as of 2010.

Hong Kong's top court has denied permanent residency to two domestic helpers from the Philippines in the final decision of a legal case with implications for tens of thousands of other foreign maids in the southern Chinese financial hub.

Foreign maids in Lebanon have been dying at a rate of more than one a week, often through suicide or failed attempts to escape from abusive employers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.

A foreign maid could be paid as little as HK$49,320.

Elvire, a foreign maid, spoke a queer brand of English but she got her points across to her mistress.

In Kuwait the domestic workers business is booming, with nearly 90% of Kuwaiti households employing at least one foreign maid.

Although their remittances lift their societies from stark poverty, a foreign maid steps into a world of abuse, overwork, and suspicion.

After additional correspondence the store received the following wire: "Matches mistaken for cheese by foreign maid and found in ice box.