Foreign domestic helper long service payment: When is it deducted? How is it calculated? What is the upper limit?

Long service payment for foreign domestic helpers is a sum of money that can be claimed from the employer if the foreign domestic helper has been employed continuously for 5 years under the employment contract. If a foreign domestic worker has been employed continuously for 5 years under the contract and meets one of the following conditions, the employer is required to pay the foreign domestic worker long service payment:

• Being dismissed by the employer (but not due to redundancy or serious misconduct) 
• Not renewed Death during employment; 
• Resignation after being certified by a registered doctor as permanently unfit to work as a domestic worker 
• Resignation due to old age (65 years or above)

If the employer proposes in writing to renew the contract with the domestic helper or re-employ the domestic helper under a new contract before the expiry of the contract (at least 7 days before), and the domestic helper refuses the offer for reasons other than those mentioned above, the employee will not be eligible for the domestic helper's long service payment.