Malaysians employing Indonesian maids will have to pay overtime of RM27 a day if the hired helps have to work on their off (rest) days, which is four days a month.

Thus it will the cost the employers an additional RM108 a month on top of their minimum monthy salary of RM700 for a single type of work, either cooking, babysitting, taking care of the elderly or housekeeping.

This was stated in Jakarta today by Indonesia’s Labour Placement Development director-general Dr Reyna Usman.

Yesterday, he had announced that Indonesian maids sent to Malaysia would only perform one of the four tasks for the salary stated and would no longer multitask.

Bernama had earlier today reported Malaysia’s Human Resource Minister Dr S Subramaniam as saying in Ipoh, Perak, that representatives from both countries would be meeting in Jakarta to resolve issues regarding the sending of Indonesian maids to Malaysia.

- Bernama