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Why helpers stick it out despite being overworked

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Migrant domestic workers who experience heavy workloads and mental stress sometimes end up reluctantly renewing their contracts to keep on working here.

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Wong Yang

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SINGAPORE - Ever since her employer's son and daughter-in-law returned from the United States in January, her workload in the family's five-storey house has taken a great toll on her.
Yanti (not her real name), a domestic worker, said the family of four rings a bell for her to attend to their every need.
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