OEC – Overseas Employment Certificate – is the certificate by the POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration) that verifies that a person is a registered overseas Filipino worker. The worker will be exempted from paying the travel tax and terminal fee once the OEC is shown to the immigration officer at the Philippine airports. OEC-EXEMPTED FDW […]

Dear Filipino FDWs, We have received feedback from some workers that they have successfully done their home leave processing directly at the Philippines Embassy even if your contract has not reached 2 years. The Philippines embassy website states that you must have completed the first contract of 2 years with the same employer before you […]

Dear friends of Anisya, Please be informed that the Anisya website is only for foreign domestic worker job in Singapore.  Anisya as an employment agency registered with MOM can process transfer applications within Singapore, and also overseas hires from Indonesia. There are occasionally posts for domestic worker jobs in other countries. Anisya has no ability to verify if […]

Dear Workers, Here is a compiled list of hotlines that you can contact on various relevant domestic worker issues. Ministry of Manpower (MOM):  www.mom.gov.sg  Number:  6438 5122 HOME (Shelter for abused Domestic Helpers):  www.home.org Number: 1800-7-977-977 (24-hr hotline) Aidha (Financial education and business school for Women): www.aidha.org Number: 6884 9938 TWC2 – Transient Workers Count 2 […]

Are domestic workers allowed to work in multiple residences? Under the existing Work Permit conditions, Foreign Domestic Workers can only be employed for the performance of domestic chores for their employers, at the residential addresses stated on the Work Permits. FDWs may only be deployed to work at another address if their duties in their […]

Dear Workers, Some of you have asked  if it is possible for you to not reside with your employers during after-work hours. Under MOM’s current regulations, stay-out maids are not allowed and “the employer shall ensure that the foreign employee resides at the residential address stated in the work permit”. As such, to prevent any […]

Dear Workers, There might be a need one day for you to send us some documents in order for us to update your Anisya profile.  This might be documents such as your recommendation letters from employers, photocopies of your bio-data etc. However, if you do not have access to a computer or printer, how are […]

Dear Members, We have been receiving several feedback on members sending out interview requests and not receiving any responses from many of these accounts. As such, we will be deactivating ads on unresponsive accounts to keep our website updated. If you find your ad deactivated, you can reactivate it again or ask us for assistance. However, […]

Dear foreign domestic worker friends! Some of you may have experienced a situation where you log in to Anisya’s system one day only to realize that your ad gets deactivated. Why does this happen? Your ad gets automatically deactivated:  1) One week after your “required start date” When editing your profile, you are required to […]

Many employers looking to hire a new domestic worker nowadays actually visit their potential worker’s Facebook page to read up more on them before making a decision. How should you show your (employer or potential employer) that you have a good knowledge of online etiquette? Learning the difference between good online etiquette — and lack […]