Dubai: A maid, who tried to kill her sponsors wife with a hammer because she feared losing her job, will spend five years in prison after she lost her appeal on Monday.

The 28-year-old Indonesian housemaid, Y.A., took advantage of the fact that her sponsors 33-year-old Jordanian wife was in bed when she pounded her head with a hammer intending to kill her.

The maid attempted to kill the victim in November 2012 because she was frightened of losing her job.

The Dubai Cassation Court turned down the defendants appeal to reduce her five-year jail term.

Presiding judge Mohammad Nabil Riyadh upheld the imprisonment against the maid.

According to Mondays irrevocable judgement, Y.A. will be deported following the completion of her punishment.

In September 2013, Court of First Instance jailed Y.A. for a year and fined her Dh1,000.

In December 2013, prosecutors appealed the verdict and asked the Appeal Court to stiffen the punishment. Meanwhile the accused appealed the court for a swifter punishment contending that she did not have any intention to kill the victim.

The appellate court stiffened the one-year imprisonment to five years in jail.

Court records said Y.A. decided to kill the Jordanian when she overheard her discussing the termination of her services the night before the incident.

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(PRWEB) February 25, 2014

Bob and Meridee Cole bring high-quality residential cleaning to Broward to Central Palm Beach County with the opening of their Maid Right franchise this month in Coral Springs.

These Master Owners meet the pressing need in their community for reliable, professional cleaning and now have an opportunity to guide others in building cleaning franchise businesses of their own- all while working together as a family.

The Coles are looking to help homeowners create more free time in their lives by cleaning their homes to a higher standard by using the latest technologies. We seek to provide two things: first, more time for people in their lives, and second, total home disinfecting capabilities with EnviroShield that are not found elsewhere in this industry. EnviroShield - Maid Rights exclusive disinfecting spray kills up to 99% of the most common bacteria and viruses, including MRSA and H1N1.

Prior to purchasing his franchise, Bob was able to see firsthand how unique of an opportunity Maid Right is. He saw the inner workings of it when he ran the national accounts operation with JAN-PRO, Maid Rights sister company. JAN-PRO has been a leading international commercial cleaning franchise for 22 years, and Maid Right pulls from their experience and applies it to home cleaning.

[This is] a company that stands behind us and provides hospital-grade cleaning chemicals, products, equipment, and branded process that are exclusive to our business owners, Bob says. We also see how our community is a great market for these services and a prime location for small business growth.

Honing in on their entrepreneurial personalities, Bob and Meridee look forward to how they can teach others how to build their own Maid Right unit franchise business. Our goal is to have 13 franchise owners join our team and to service 230 homes by the end of our first full year of regular cleaning, Bob says. Both he and Meridee have lived in the South Florida community for many years, so they enjoy being able to build up a team of local business owners with them in this new adventure.

Aside from growing their new business, the Coles enjoy various activities outside the office. Meridee is a licensed Esthetician and both enjoy the outdoors and leading healthy lifestyles. The two are also involved in their community and seeking out ways to participate in local charities.

To contact Maid Right of Broward County, please call (954) 840-8140, visit their website, or email Bob at bob(dot)cole(at)maidright(dot)com.

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Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) February 18, 2014

For Jim and Susan Gillespie, the Maid Right residential cleaning franchise opportunity provides three compelling benefits: the ability to provide homeowners quality service, a means to help people become business owners, and the gift of growing a business alongside family. These three things are now an exciting reality for Jim and Susan due to the opening of Maid Right of North Fulton this month.

In regards to their services, Jim and Susan are "able to provide professional cleaning at a level that hasn't been offered before in the community." Maid Right cleaners utilize branded cleaning processes and their exclusive EnviroShield disinfecting spray technology to deliver quality home cleaning.

With Jan-Pro [Maid Rights sister company in commercial cleaning], we have a grander scope from the great things they have done from an international cleaning standpoint for 22 years and encapsulate them to fit residential needs, Jim says. Their hospital-grade cleaning techniques can now be brought into the home.

The Gillespies say another benefit to franchise cleaners is that it provides homeowners with a consistent, committed business owner to service their home. It eliminates some maid service fears, like turnover of employees cleaning their home and customer service needs.

We provide business owners that could potentially be with that customer for many years. The unit owners have an investment in their own company, so we feel that theyll bend over backwards more to meet the customers needs, Jim says.

Furthermore, Jim and Susan see the master/unit franchise model as a partnership and a unique way to teach ambitious people about growing their own business. It allows cleaning franchise owners to build a business alongside Susan and I where they can invest in themselves, build better lifestyles for their families, and grow under a brand that has unlimited potential.

Jim and Susan see that the best part about their new endeavor is that it is a win for everyone in the community. To strengthen their presence in the business spectrum of North Fulton, Jim has joined the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Their involvement is not to just spread the word about Maid Right, but to help out other companies within the chamber as well.

The Gillespies attend North Point Community Church and are involved in a couples group and Jim leads a middle school boys group. They have two daughters, ages 13 and 8. The family often spends their free days outdoors, either camping or at the lake.

To contact Maid Right of North Fulton, please call (770) 552-6243, visit their page on Facebook, or on their website.

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(PRWEB) February 15, 2014

There are many foreigners in Wuhan who need to deal with issues like renting houses, looking for maids, car rental and more. Yesterday, MaxHouse International Services Co., Ltd. (http://www.maxhouse.net/), the first company that provides comprehensive services for foreigners in Wuhan, was founded.

MaxHouse (which is at Room 704, Huatong Mansion, Jiefang Park Road, Wuhan) mainly provides house rental, car rental, night life orientation, Mandarin training, immigration, city orientation, international school guide, blind date, employment and legal consulting, and business communication related services. The founder of this corporation, Mr. Max Yang, is a Wuhanese who has studied and worked in the USA for many years. He knows the inconvenience of living overseas, and this is the reason that he created the company to provide relocation services for the foreigners in Wuhan.

Now, many great corporations listed in the Fortune 500, such as General Motors, HSBC, Renault, Volvo and more, have set up their factories or offices in Wuhan. According to the Exit-Entry Administration Department of Wuhan City Public Security Bureau, the number of foreigners in Wuhan will reach 300,000 in 2014.

Larry Alonso, the manager of an Italian Company, Smartcard, says there are only few companies that provide personal services for foreigners in Wuhan. When he arrived in Wuhan, he faced many difficulties like where to live, what to eat and how to search for an apartment.

Mr. and Ms. Rommel Ivan now have to stay at a hotel with their children. Mr. Rommel complained that he was in need of an interpreter who can speak Spanish fluently, a reliable chauffeur, a maid who can speak English or Spanish, an international bilingual school and a cozy American-style house. But it was hard for them to find the related services in Wuhan.

Without the norms and standards of International services, expats can only find the related information on different personal websites on which its difficult for expat to distinguish whether the information is true or not. The websites are not so easy to be supervised as physical stores; the problems such as low quality translation, dispute of house sublease, etc. happen often.

It is reported that as soon as MaxHouse International Services Co., Ltd was founded, it received the orders from Honeywell Inc.; MaxHouse provides custom life-support services to Honeywell's senior executives working in Wuhan. According to the business administrative department of Jiangan District, because more and more expats live and work in Wuhan and the demand of foreign services is increasing, the internationalized Wuhan can only live up to its reputation by legalized and normalized foreign services.

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A Milton woman employed by a maid service is facing charges after items were reported missing and fraudulent cheques were cashed in connection with a Burlington client.

A Burlington couple used a home cleaning service for approximately one year, without incident, until last month.

They noticed fraudulent cheques had been cashed from their bank account and jewelry and cash had gone missing from their bedroom.

Halton police utilized bank video surveillance to identify the suspect. The home cleaning service co-operated with the police and assisted in identifying the suspect.

Arruda Torres, 21, of Milton is charged with theft, fraud, forgery and possession of property by crime (under $5,000).

Halton police reminds residents, particularly seniors, to be alert and vigilant when dealing with in-home services and to call the police if anything suspicious occurs.

"Our elderly community members are at a high risk for victimization and anytime we can take steps such as this to hold people accountable for preying on seniors we prevent future victimization," says Det.-Sgt, Ron Hansen of the Halton Police.

Anyone with information on any other crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or through the web at http://www.haltoncrimestoppers.com or by texting Tip201 with your message to 274637 (crimes).

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NEW DELHI: India and the US still seem locked in a battle for righteousness over the Khobragade issue as the strategic partners pick up the pieces after the bitter standoff, bringing the bilateral engagement back on track by scheduling the energy dialogue next month.

With the US authorities refusing to withdraw visa fraud charges against diplomat Devyani Khobragade, Indian authorities are proceeding with the pursuit of tax issues related to American School employment contracts and are also closely following contracts entered into by US diplomats here with their domestic helps.

One such contract between a Mumbai-based US diplomat and his Filipina maid, a copy of which is with TOI, suggests that the maid is being paid less than $3 per hour. The minimum hourly wage in the US is $7.25.

According to her lawyer, Khobragade actually paid $9.75 per hour to her maid in New York, as promised by her in the employment contract, in the form of the amount paid here to her husband and also cash payments and "permissible deductions'' for various services in the US.

The US state department says that the salary paid to local staff of US diplomats is based on "prevailing wage rates and compensation practices''. Unlike the contract between Khobragade and her maid Sangeeta Richard, though, this one between the US official and his maid doesn't carry any stipulation of hours of work. The contract, which came into effect on December 1 last year, says the Filipina maid would work "six full workdays per week'' at a salary of $458 per month. Even at only eight hours per day, it is perhaps safe to assume she works well over 40 hours every week.

Authorities here believe the Khobragade contract was more favourably inclined towards the maid also because it restricted work to five days and 40 hours per week. The Filipina also has only five holidays apart from a 12-day annual leave and no ticket for home leave during the period of three years. On the other hand, all domestic helps going with Indian diplomats are entitled to a return air ticket after completing a year's stay abroad.

There was no response from the US embassy here on questions about the contract between the US diplomat and the Filipina maid. Like Richard, the Filipina maid too has rent-free accommodation, free internet and food allowance. She also has "appropriate contributions'' to the Philippine Social Security System. While the Filipina maid has medical insurance, Richard had "100 per cent'' medical cover under which all such expenses were borne by the Indian government.

In case of any negligence, the contract with the Filipina maid also specifies that all such issues will be decided by the employer only. There is no option of any recourse to local courts or US courts or even courts in the Philippines.

CNN reported in 2009, quoting a state department report, that many local staff of US diplomats across the world were being paid less than a dollar per day. The state department-mandated contract between Khobragade and Richard projected an average of 40 working hours per week (approximately a salary of $1,560 per month at an hourly wage of $9.75). Around $560 was given in the form of Rs 30,000 transferred to her husband's account, another $625 in cash and remaining in deductions.

Meanwhile, income tax department has also begun a probe into alleged tax violations by the American Embassy School here. "Once the preliminary information is gathered, the tax department would be taking a view on issuing notices to the authorities concerned. Also, the CBDT would be informed as this is not a regular case and involves relations between two countries," an agency report quoting government sources said.

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India and the US still seem locked in a battle for righteousness over the Khobragade issue as the strategic partners pick up the pieces after the bitter standoff, bringing the bilateral engagement back on track by scheduling the energy dialogue next month.

With the US authorities refusing to withdraw visa fraud charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, Indian authorities are proceeding with the pursuit of tax issues related to American school employment contracts and are also closely following contracts entered into by US diplomats here with their domestic helps.

One such contract between a Mumbai based US diplomat and his Filipino maid, a copy of which is with this paper, suggests that the maid is being paid less than $ 3 per hour. The minimum hourly wage in the US is $ 7.25.

According to her lawyer, Khobragade actually paid $ 9.75 per hour to her maid in New York, as promised by her in the employment contract, in the form of the amount paid here to her husband and also cash payments and "permissible deductions" for various services in the US.

The US State Department says that the salary paid to local staff of US diplomats is based on "prevailing wage rates and compensation practices". Unlike the contract between Khobragade and her maid Sangeeta Richard though, this one between the US official and his maid doesn't carry any stipulation of hours of work. The contract, which came into effect December 1 last year, says that the Filipino maid would work "six full workdays per week" at a salary of $ 458 per month. Even at only 8 hours per day, it is perhaps safe to assume she works well over 40 hours every week.

Authorities here believe that the Khobragade contract was more favourably inclined towards the maid also because it restricted work to 5 days and 40 hours per week. The Filipino also has only 5 holidays apart from a 12-day annual leave and no ticket for home leave during the period of 3 years. On the other hand all domestics going with Indian diplomats are entitled to a return airticket after completing a year's stay abroad.

There was no response from the US embassy here on questions about the contract between the US diplomat and the Filipino maid. Like Richard, the Filipino maid too has rent-free accommodation, free internet and food allowance. She also has "appropriate contributions" to Filipino Social Security System. While the Filipino maid has medical insurance, Richard had a "100 per cent" medical cover under which all such expenses were borne by the Indian government.

In case of any negligence, the contract with the Filipino maid also specifies that all such issues will be decided by the employer only. There is no option of any recourse to local courts or US courts or even courts in the Philippines.

CNN reported in 2009, quoting a State Department report, that many local staff of US diplomats across the world were being paid less than a dollar per day. The State Department mandated contract between Khobragade and Richard projected an average of 40 working hours per week (approximately a salary of $ 1560 per month at an hourly wage of $ 9.75). Around $ 560 was given in the form of Rs 30,000 transferred to her husband's account, another $ 625 in cash and remaining in deductions.

Meanwhile, Income Tax department has also begun a probe into alleged tax violations by the American Embassy school here. "Once the preliminary information is gathered, the tax department would be taking a view on issuing notices to the authorities concerned. Also, the CBDT would be informed as this is not a regular case and involves relations between two countries," an agency report quoting government sources said. As per the information available with the government, several teachers at the American Embassy School were working "illegally", in violation of both tax laws and their visa status.

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