a Filipino maid in training Sichuan nanny. CFP data picture
newspaper reporter Zhang Yanan
in the deep courtyard, dressed neatly filipinous maid behaved properly, speaking fluent English, providing good service to the owner... We often see such scenes in Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas. In fact, Filipino maids are not only growing in the first tier cities in North China, but also in some families in Ji'nan.
hire three years of Filipino maids, the biggest gain is that children learn English
Huang Fang, who lives in the provincial capital, has a 7 year old son. She and her husband were busy with their business, unable to take care of their children, and wanted their children to learn English earlier. Huang Fang moved the idea of "high-quality" nanny.
three years ago, Huang Fang's friend's house came to a more than 20 year old foreign girl with a dark complexion, a girl that was well matched with a child from a neighbor's kindergarten, and two people often talked and laughed in English. As soon as I inquired, I knew that this was a babysitter who was invited from Philippines, which is commonly known as Filipino maid. Besides carrying children, he also did housework.
didn't expect Filipino fillets to be seen before in TV shows. Just before the aunt hired quit, Huang Fang and her husband decided to find a Filipino.
Huang Fang found that there are few Filipino Filipino agencies in Ji'nan, but there are many places like Beijing and Guangzhou. The two chose an intermediary in Beijing. After a video interview, they hired a more than 30 year old Filipino maid.
Huang Fang thought her Filipino Filipino maid was very diligent. "Very smart, you don't need to tell me what to do. Listening to the song, washing clothes and cleaning, it looks very relaxed, but the work is very good.
Huang Fang felt that the biggest harvest of a Filipino maid was that his son was accustomed to listening to English songs and English stories. Now, the son of the primary school has been tangle with the Filipinos to tell stories in English every day.
> Ji'nan Filipino employer has more than 10
Liu Zhilin is one of the few Filipino Filipino intermediaries found by journalists in Ji'nan. He told reporters that most of the employers choosing Filipino maids are to bring children to create an oral English environment for children to prepare for studying abroad or emigrating abroad. Many employers have backgrounds in foreign countries. They used to employ Filipino maids abroad.
Liu Zhilin said that in addition to Ji'nan, he has clients in Qingdao, Zibo, Linyi and other places, and every month he receives some family phone calls.
"at present, there are at least 30 families employed in Qingdao and 10 in Ji'nan." Liu Zhilin said that most of these Filipinos were introduced through intermediaries in Beijing, Shanghai and other places.
will foreign monks chant chanting? Liu Zhilin said that Filipino maids work better, but they are not as good as legends. "There are also some (Fei Yong) who have not been trained or come from rural areas, whose English is not very good, and their academic qualifications are fraudulent."
Liu Zhilin's customers are satisfied with several Filipino maids. "There are various reasons, mostly because English is not as good as imagined." Filipinos have received English education since childhood, and basically can communicate in English. Just like Chinese speaking English, it is inevitable that there are various accents.
"before the home employed domestic aunt, is also very capable, very reassuring." Huang Fang also felt that there was no significant difference between Filipino domestic helpers and domestic nannies. She has friends who employ Filipino maids to do housework, but they do not work well.
hire a Filipino servant month to spend six thousand or seven thousand yuan
35 year old Filipino Ellaine has worked in Qingdao's employer's home for nearly a year. She earns 4400 yuan a month, almost three times her wages two years ago when she worked as a quality inspector in an electronics factory in Manila, Philippines.
Liu Zhilin said that the cost of employing a Filipino maid is divided into three parts: wages, visa fees and intermediary fees. The salary is about 4000 yuan a month, about 50 thousand a year. The intermediary fee is 8000 yuan a year. If the agency agency visa is granted, it will cost about 20 thousand a year. Together, employers spend about 80 thousand yuan a year, an average of six thousand or seven thousand yuan per month.
a large part of Filipino's monthly income of about 4000 yuan should be paid to the domestic intermediary in Philippines, and two thousand or three thousand yuan can be obtained by hand. Even so, they are already earning several times their income in China. "Philippines is relatively poor, and the overseas Filipino maid has a considerable income, so Filipino maids can work hard."
Ellaine is sent to the Philippines agency every year for 8000 yuan to 10000 yuan, and almost all the rest of her salary is sent back to her hometown.
reporter learned from the local housekeeping companies such as the warm - hearted sister-in-law and the sun sister that a 24 - hour home nanny in Ji'nan costs from $two thousand or three thousand to $six thousand or seven thousand.
unlike Filipino maids, most of the income of domestic nannies has entered their own pockets. The management fees charged by domestic companies are generally 0.5%, and there are 20 yuan fees. Compared with the Filipinos, twenty thousand or thirty thousand of the year's visa costs and up to 30% - 50% of the intermediary expenses, only a small amount.
- the only communication between Filipino employees is employer's children
Filipino and employers are inevitably different in their cultural habits. But Huang Fang thought it was because of these differences that she preferred Filipino maids. "Chinese culture is human, at the beginning of the face, employers and nanny are more generous, deliberately not so clear, but later often in order to work long, the amount of remuneration to produce contradictions." While Filipino maids are clear about their work hours and remuneration, they will not get into trouble.
besides, simple social relations also make the Filipino market more competitive. Liu Zhilin, with more than a dozen Filipinos, said that only one or two years before the Filipino maid returned to his home, and the same town was almost not party. "If we often communicate, it is inevitable that employers will not be able to get them together."
"Filipino maids are rather bitter. They bring their children to their employers in a foreign country, but their children are put in their old home to bring the elderly." Liu Zhilin said.
Ellaine, a single mother, often misses her three children. There are two small primary schools in the children, big middle schools. But Ellaine did not plan to return as soon as possible. She wanted to earn two years' tuition for her child and then go back.
in addition, the life of Filipino maids is usually lacking in communication. Ellaine said she came to China to be a Filipino worker and was introduced by her cousin, who has worked in China for 4 years. Ellaine felt that the children of the employer's family were very dependent on her. Just because of language barriers, communication with employers' parents is rather slow.
Huang Fang hired three years of Filipino maid, but the status of Filipino servants can not be said. "The babysitter at home does housework. Do I have to communicate with her often?" Huang Fang said with a smile.
Liu Zhilin also said that many employers are not good at English, and can only communicate with Filipino maids simply. The most important target for Filipino maids is the children of their employers. And children have to go to kindergarten during the day, when Filipino maids do not have a person who speaks.
"Filipino maid more use a tourist visa to beat the ball"
mention the Filipinos, sunshine elder sister, hot hearted sister-in-law and other staff of the local government companies feel very strange. "Is there a Filipino maid in Ji'nan now?" asked the head of a household company. The Ji'nan Municipal Bureau of Commerce, responsible for housekeeping service, also said that no family in Ji'nan had hired Filipino maids.
reporter learned from the labour and Employment Office of Shandong province that, according to the "Regulations on employment management of foreigners in China" since 1996, foreigners who are employed in China should enter into a career visa and obtain employment certificates for foreigners and residence certificates of foreigners after entering the country, and they can be employed in China.
at present, there is no open employment permit for domestic jobs such as domestic service and so on. Therefore, Filipino workers can not legally get employment in China. Some cities even explicitly stipulate that "individuals should not employ Filipino maids".
so, at present, the labor import, such as the filipinid, can not get a work visa. It can only be left in the country through a tourist visa and a business visa, and it takes three months or even a month to get a visa. By filming the "edge ball" in the gray area, Filipino maid surviving in China.
(should be asked by the respondents, Huang Fang and Liu Zhilin in the text are aliases)