Our housekeeper has worked in the house for years and stayed in it for a year before we bought it living in it and taking care of it for the out of town owners.
She has been employed with us since Oct 2012 when we bought our house where she looked after it when we were still in Canada. Since we arrived in the DR 6 weeks ago she has been working 5 hours a day 3 times a week and we pay her 900 pesos a week. My question is how much do we have to pay her compensation?
The reasons we want to let her go are:
1) We don't trust her at all. We just painted our Fence and I asked her where the rest of the paint was and she said it was all used up. The next day she comes to our house with the same color paint on her face.
2) She is a horrible cleaner and lazy, has ruined hundreds of dollars of my wife's clothing.
3) Since she lived in our house, she treats it like her own and lets her kids or whoever come over even though we have told her NO OTHER PEOPLE on our property.
4) I hate having people in our house.
5) Is very nosy in our financial business and who we get to fix / build things in the house. She insists on people to do the work that are not professionals but says they are and we know she obviously gets a cut.
The problem is her husband is our gardener, pool cleaner and maintenance guy who is a really hard worker, sweet guy and we love him. We don't want to get rid of him! I used to do this stuff around my house in Canada but here I am pathetic at doing house stuff, it's all so foreign!!
So I'm also asking is it possible to ditch the Housekeeper but keep her husband on without them being annoyed about it? Do people here generally take it personally if they get let go??!!
Please HELP Dr1er's!!!!
She has been employed with us since Oct 2012 when we bought our house where she looked after it when we were still in Canada. Since we arrived in the DR 6 weeks ago she has been working 5 hours a day 3 times a week and we pay her 900 pesos a week. My question is how much do we have to pay her compensation?
The reasons we want to let her go are:
1) We don't trust her at all. We just painted our Fence and I asked her where the rest of the paint was and she said it was all used up. The next day she comes to our house with the same color paint on her face.
2) She is a horrible cleaner and lazy, has ruined hundreds of dollars of my wife's clothing.
3) Since she lived in our house, she treats it like her own and lets her kids or whoever come over even though we have told her NO OTHER PEOPLE on our property.
4) I hate having people in our house.
5) Is very nosy in our financial business and who we get to fix / build things in the house. She insists on people to do the work that are not professionals but says they are and we know she obviously gets a cut.
The problem is her husband is our gardener, pool cleaner and maintenance guy who is a really hard worker, sweet guy and we love him. We don't want to get rid of him! I used to do this stuff around my house in Canada but here I am pathetic at doing house stuff, it's all so foreign!!
So I'm also asking is it possible to ditch the Housekeeper but keep her husband on without them being annoyed about it? Do people here generally take it personally if they get let go??!!
Please HELP Dr1er's!!!!