Photo October Day 6: Calculation

Or more like...scribbles.

I was reading this article about foreign maids and their agencies, and something in the calculations struck me as wrong...so I did a bit of my own.

Above is the current payments, and below is the one the writer proposed.

There is something wrong with this sentence:
"Employers will pay RM3,000 for a maid and nothing more instead of RM5,000 previously."

Employers will have to pay RM3000 plus the maid's monthly wage of RM600 for 24 months, in fact. And the RM3000 doesn't go to the agency...only half of it does.

So as I summarized at the end of my calculations (that one's for you, by the way, or else I wouldn't have written it :P ), the employer will pay a little less, the maid gains a lot more and the agency gains a lot less. Hmm...not a happy deal for the agencies, like the writer said.