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Hardworking locals enjoy a weekly day off., but it's not a done deal for everyone.
Only half the maids here have a regular day off, according to a Sunday Times poll in 2003.
Unifem Singapore, Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) and Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) have joined hands to campaign for this 'basic labour right'.
As E-von Yeung from SPH finds out, that right makes a huge difference to foreign domestic workers here.
Video extracted from The Straits Times.
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