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by BBCWatcher » Thu, 21 Apr 2016 3:39 am
Part-time or full-time ad hoc home/office cleaning is (also) perfectly respectable work Singaporean citizens and Permanent Residents can and do undertake. It is often more specialized -- for example, upholstery cleaning, office cleaning. It is not the same situation as a FDW, a worker dedicated to one and only one household and never to an office. These are different roles, different statuses, with a different set of rules. I don't think that comparison is apt.
I can't find anything published that indicates that home (or office) cleaning firms are barred from applying for LoCs for LTVP, LTVP+, and DP holders. There is, however, a prohibition against "objectionable occupations such as a dance hostess or a masseur." One would think that MoM would not be shy about listing cleaning occupations if it found them also "objectionable," but it does not. Moreover, the enabling legislation gives the Ministry of Manpower the, er, power to grant LoCs for "any form of paid employment," so there's no legal bar to MoM issuing LoCs to cleaning staff.
I don't think we have enough recent evidence to determine whether or not the Ministry of Manpower is issuing LoCs to home or office cleaners. DP holders have always been dependents within relatively high (or higher) income households and not necessarily the most obvious home cleaning firm employees. LTVP+ only started a few years ago, and LTVP LoCs are even more recent. I certainly wouldn't dismiss the notion out of hand, at least not without recent evidence.