RM8,000 fee to hire maid


Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Home Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi arriving at the cabinet committee meeting on foreign workers and illegal immigrants at Parliament, Monday, July 1, 2013. RAJA FAISAL HISHAN/The Star.

ANOTHER amount has been proposed for the contentious hiring fee for Indonesian maids, with the Government putting it at RM8,000.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who chaired the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Workers and Illegal Immigrants, said that the new rate was decided after considering all costs from both Malaysia and Indonesia.

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