Why don't you pay your servant (sorry, I meant maid) well (ie. not just 100 riyals over the minimum), treat her well, give her a bonus every so often and give her the incentive to stay with you? In any other labour economy, workers would be free to find the best possible job and protect their own interests. Just because Qatar has made this impossible doesn't mean you have to submit so passively to the system.
Frankly the only people who would be concerned about losing their cheap expendable labour are people who wish to import indentured servants and deprive them completely and systematically of the labour rights normal in the twenty first century.
And all these wonderful expats talking about their 8,500 riyals expense. Shock! OMG! Horrific! How *terribly* expensive, darling!! You could have had lunch out a couple of times and gone for a weekend in Dubai for that much!
If you come from North America or Europe, I'd be pretty damned certain of a few things, firstly - you don't have servants (sorry, I meant maids) in your own home town; secondly - most likely your friends and social groups would sneer at you for even suggesting something so bourgeois and vulgar, thirdly - you couldn't AFFORD them, given the social security, tax, uniform costs, pension and health care contributions you would be legally and morally obliged to make for them every month.
Stop the grandiosity, please, and own up to your role in this system of abuse.
And no need for the inevitable posts of self-justifying conscience sure to follow which say "but truthfulvisitor I treat her well, 700QR is a lot for a maid (you mean servant) from the Philippines, she is really grateful you know. Don't be so judgemental. I'm a good person".
Why don't you pay your servant (sorry, I meant maid) well (ie. not just 100 riyals over the minimum), treat her well, give her a bonus every so often and give her the incentive to stay with you? In any other labour economy, workers would be free to find the best possible job and protect their own interests. Just because Qatar has made this impossible doesn't mean you have to submit so passively to the system.
Frankly the only people who would be concerned about losing their cheap expendable labour are people who wish to import indentured servants and deprive them completely and systematically of the labour rights normal in the twenty first century.
And all these wonderful expats talking about their 8,500 riyals expense. Shock! OMG! Horrific! How *terribly* expensive, darling!! You could have had lunch out a couple of times and gone for a weekend in Dubai for that much!
If you come from North America or Europe, I'd be pretty damned certain of a few things, firstly - you don't have servants (sorry, I meant maids) in your own home town; secondly - most likely your friends and social groups would sneer at you for even suggesting something so bourgeois and vulgar, thirdly - you couldn't AFFORD them, given the social security, tax, uniform costs, pension and health care contributions you would be legally and morally obliged to make for them every month.
Stop the grandiosity, please, and own up to your role in this system of abuse.
And no need for the inevitable posts of self-justifying conscience sure to follow which say "but truthfulvisitor I treat her well, 700QR is a lot for a maid (you mean servant) from the Philippines, she is really grateful you know. Don't be so judgemental. I'm a good person".
Blah blah blah.