BROKERS have offered unofficial job vacancies for housemaids mostly on social networks, according to activists on labour affairs.

Illegally going abroad to work as a housemaid is high risk, and the government has helped to repatriate those who got into trouble in foreign countries working illegally as housemaids.

“TikTok is mainly used. Housemaids are sent to Middle Eastern countries like the UAE and Jordan the most. Brokers lure saying how much they are paid. There are some official job recruitments, but most are unofficial, so it is unsafe and don’t have no guarantee,” said a labour activist.

Their employers abuse some, and some are sent to a country that isn’t the destination they have promised.

“Illegal migration doesn’t have a guarantee, and some are sent to other countries that are contrary to the contract. Many labour rights are also violated. For example- they have to work more than eight hours a day. So, I would like to suggest you not going abroad illegally,” he said.

With the help of coordination between the Myanmar embassies and Myanmar consulates-general, the government has worked on the repatriation of Myanmar nationals who have difficulties while working abroad.

The Myanmar Embassy in Cairo helped repatriate a Chin woman Lal Lawm Tluangi, and a Rakhine woman Ma Sandi Lin, who got into trouble in Irbil, Iraq, through negotiation with the Kurdistan Region government and SEED Organization. The two women arrived back in Yangon at 11:30 am on 14 September.

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