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>Court documents that detail the sequence of events say that Ms Parti was asked to clean his new house and office on "multiple occasions" - which breaks local labour regulations, and which she had previously complained about.

I'm curious why it was illegal. Is it illegal to ask a domestic helper to clean your house? Or is it because she was asked to clean 2 houses and an office?

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According to the Ministry of Manpower, a maid is not allowed to work for another person or at another address.

https://www.helperchoice.com/c/singapore/job-duties-of-domes...

This is well understood and as like the rich and powerful in many places do, thought that the rules and laws do not apply to them and their maid (Parti) was too afraid to report them to the government.

In this case, they thought incorrectly and have been caught, exposed and worse.

However, I doubt that true justice (as in legal punishment of some sort) will ever be meted out to the rich and powerful family.

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