Citing inadequate accommodations, a group of Hong Kong-based domestic helpers is pushing for the scrapping of a policy requiring maids to live with their employers.
Mission for Migrant Workers general manager Cynthia Tellez said helpers should be given an option to live elsewhere, Hong Kong’s The Standard reported on Friday.
“Domestic workers are chosen because they can do full-time work for a fixed monthly wage, not because they are live-in,” Tellez said.
The Standard report said the mission conducted a survey of more than 3,000 workers from June 2012 to January 2013.
It found 35 percent of the workers interviewed prefer to live outside their employers’ flats, with 30 percent saying they do not have suitable accommodation.
Some said they had to share a room with boys or sleep in kitchens, corridors and toilets.
Another group, the Confederation of Trade Unions, appeared to support such a move.
The Standard report quoted the group’s coordinator Lam Ying-hing as saying a live-out arrangement may enhance domestic workers’ privacy, rest time, work safety and life satisfaction.
But Hong Kong’s Immigration Department said the arrangement of living outside employers’ homes will dampen the job opportunities for helpers.
The report noted questions had been raised about the government’s mandatory live-in policy earlier this month, after six Filipino helpers were arrested in Discovery Bay for violating the rule. — LBG, GMA News
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International Equal Pay Day
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7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
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Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
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Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
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Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
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Last Friday: National Maritime Day
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