Maid is a liability?

I’ve got a maid for almost 3 years and since my very first maid left us, we’ve got quite a lot of problems with the next few ones. With these problems, I started to think and wonder if there are any safeguards for employers? While we discuss about human rights about maid, apparently, these maids take it for granted and starts a thing that I call, EMPLOYER HOPPING. Basically, they will start to choose their employer and if they are not happy with one, they will tell their current employer that they are not happy and wish to return to the agency and change to another employer.

While we bring them back to the agency, the agency is just not able to help us with interim measures and when you engage maids from small agency like the one I visited, Orange Employment Agency. The agency had limited maids and even advised that if we can’t wait, we should just move on to the next agency and they will do a refund. But I thought the fundamentals is, THIS IS NOT RIGHT! It is the most irresponsible way of solving the problem.

While I’ve since moved on to another agency and has learnt more through this incident, I wonder if having a maid is to help us or to become a liability to us. I thought, they are a liability to us as employers like me, are living in fear everyday, fearing what is on the maid’s mind and what they will be doing next? If only every maid is like Leticia, the celebrity maid from The Noose.