Scofflaw labor brokers have been known to confiscate passports and withhold wages. Employers often exploit care-givers, and even abuse or injure them. The paucity of protection for the interests of foreign caregivers has elicited strong criticism from human rights groups at home and abroad. Isolated, overworked, and emotionally distraught foreign laborers, for their part, are also prone to break down and hurt others.
例如被不法仲介扣押護照、積欠工資；或者被雇主剝削勞力，遭受虐待、人身傷害等惡行，勞動權益未受保障，引發國內外勞動人權團體批判；而隱身各家戶中的外護孤立無援、全年無休的工作，情緒也很容易失控傷人。