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Maids wait for decision

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DOMESTIC workers are waiting to hear whether their pleas for greater protection against bad employers will be heard by the Government.

A catalogue of horror stories of abuse against domestic workers was unveiled yesterday by a coalition group dedicated to combating violence against women migrant workers.

Photographs showed a woman with part of a finger chopped off. Another woman had a badly bruised arm.

Personal stories included a Thai maid who said that she was asked to massage her male employer and have sex with him or lose her job.

Another maid claimed she was assaulted with a broken glass and kept in France against her will for five months after being taken on a short trip to care for a sick relative.

But bringing cases against employers was the biggest hurdle, said welfare agencies.

''Often domestic workers do not have the right kind of evidence.

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