Car-wash duty boundary
The Immigration foreign domestic helper conditions state that domestic chores do not include car washing. Put this boundary into the written task list so different adults do not give conflicting instructions, and arrange a separate household solution for vehicle cleaning.
- Remove car washing from daily and weekly helper schedules.
- Tell every adult who is responsible for vehicle cleaning.
- Review other unusual duties against the written domestic-work scope.
What Immigration’s own page states
Immigration’s Foreign Domestic Helper page lists a set of conditions an employer must meet, and one of them addresses her duties directly: she should be assigned to domestic chores, with the page adding "not including car wash" as an explicit parenthetical. This is a named exclusion on the government’s own page, not a general inference about what "domestic chores" might reasonably cover.
Because it’s stated this specifically, it’s one of the more clear-cut boundaries in the whole set of rules around what a domestic helper can and can’t be directed to do.
How this fits the wider duty boundary
The JTKSM/ILO employer guide separately restricts her work to household tasks and caregiving responsibilities, and prohibits directing her into a family business or a second household — car washing sits within that same general boundary, but Immigration’s page is the one that names this specific task directly rather than leaving it to be inferred.
Taken together, the pattern across both sources is the same: her contracted duties are defined narrowly, and tasks outside that scope — however minor they might seem — aren’t something an employer is permitted to direct.
The risk if it’s asked anyway
PERKESO’s own domestic-worker FAQ addresses what happens if an accident occurs while she’s doing work outside her contracted scope: she isn’t eligible for benefits, because the employer isn’t permitted to direct her outside her household duties in the first place. Washing the car — the specific example Immigration’s own page excludes — would fall into exactly that category.
Given the exclusion is stated this directly on a government page, it’s a straightforward one to simply avoid rather than treat as a judgement call.