Hong Kong

Workers complain about local agencies overcharging fees

News /

Asia Times 5 October 2018 Three Filipino domestic workers have filed complaints at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office against two Hong Kong employment agencies for alleged overcharging fees. The two unnamed agencies were the Hong Kong counterparts of the Manila-based Spear International Manpower, sunwebhk.com reported, citing Esther C Bangcawayan, an officer with the Mission for […]

Workers complain about local agencies overcharging fees Read More »

Agents of Change? Assessing Hong Kong employment agencies’ compliance with the Code of Practice

Action Research /

“Agents of Change?” exposes how employment agencies in Hong Kong are failing to comply with the Hong Kong government’s Code of Practice for Employment Agencies leaving migrant domestic workers at risk of abuse and exploitation. The research was conducted by the Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions (FADWU). As of April 2018, there were nearly

Agents of Change? Assessing Hong Kong employment agencies’ compliance with the Code of Practice Read More »

Should Hong Kong’s elderly care sector import foreign labour amid chronic manpower shortage?

News, Public /

By Jeffie Lam South China Morning Post | 07 October 2017 The remarks by Wong Kwok-kin, a lawmaker and member of the Executive Council that advises the city’s leader on policy, were in contrast with the view of colleague Stanley Ng Chau-pei, chairman of the pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions. Ng said employers had not

Should Hong Kong’s elderly care sector import foreign labour amid chronic manpower shortage? Read More »

Labor rights | New rules likely to increase recruitment agency infractions

News /

By: Lynzy Valles Macau Daily Times | April 21, 2017 Following the MSAR’s new restrictions on the duration of stay for non-resident workers who leave their place of employment, migrant workers are more likely to cling to recruitment agencies in hopes of finding immediate employment. Yet these firms are the stuff of horror stories. Indonesian

Labor rights | New rules likely to increase recruitment agency infractions Read More »

Gov’t plans to strengthen regulation of employment agencies serving Hong Kong domestic workers

News /

By Ellie Ng | Hong Kong Free Press 19 January 2017 The Hong Kong government has made plans to strengthen the regulatory regime for employment agencies, which may better protect the labour rights of the city’s migrant domestic workers. In his final Policy Address, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said Wednesday that the Labour Department plans

Gov’t plans to strengthen regulation of employment agencies serving Hong Kong domestic workers Read More »

Indonesia vows to help lower brokerage fees for its workers in Taiwan

News, Public /

15 April 2015, Focus Taiwan News Channel Jakarta, April 15 (CNA) The Indonesian government said Wednesday it is determined to help lower the brokerage fees for its citizens seeking work in other countries, including Taiwan. Nusron Wahid, head of the Agency of Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers, said in a parliamentary hearing that

Indonesia vows to help lower brokerage fees for its workers in Taiwan Read More »

Official Alleges Police Complicity in Migrant Worker Trafficking

News, Public /

25 August 2014, Jakarta Globe Jakarta. A former top Indonesian official in charge of migrant worker protection has demanded an investigation into the police chief of East Nusa Tenggara province, or NTT, over indications of police complicity in the alleged trafficking of migrant workers, both within the country and abroad. “I suspect that there’s a

Official Alleges Police Complicity in Migrant Worker Trafficking Read More »

Scroll to Top