About 50 workers in Hong Kong are seeking to recover more than HK$7 million (US$892,000) in unpaid wages and other payments following the shutdown of another restaurant amid a string of closures in the catering industry. Chiu Kwun-chung, head of the Eating Establishment Employees General Union’s labour rights committee, said the group was notified on…
Hong Kong catering and construction unions have called for a review of the labour import scheme amid high jobless rates in the sectors, with some local employees complaining about being replaced or forced to work fewer days after cheaper staff from outside the city were recruited. Chau Sze-kit, chairman of the Hong Kong Construction Industry…
The referral of workers to labour authorities to claim unpaid wages is an “irresponsible” move, a lawmaker and a fellow union member have said, slamming the owners of a three-decade-old Hong Kong congee restaurant chain that left more than 100 employees in limbo after its abrupt closure. Speaking ahead of a staff meeting scheduled for…
The referral of workers to labour authorities to claim unpaid wages is an “irresponsible” move, a lawmaker and a rights activist have said, slamming the owners of a three-decade-old Hong Kong congee restaurant chain, which left more than 100 employees in limbo after its abrupt closure. They also said ahead of a staff meeting scheduled…
The abrupt closure of a three-decade-old congee restaurant chain in Hong Kong has left around 20 imported workers from mainland China facing eviction from their dormitory and worried about being sent home without collecting unpaid wages. The mainland workers, who arrived in Hong Kong through the city’s supplementary labour scheme in May last year, were…
After being forced to quit, Har Cheng* went to the Hong Kong food stall she had worked at for almost two decades, only to find out she had been replaced by imported labourers from mainland China. Feeling angry and mistreated, Cheng, 67, who helped wash dishes, clean tables and sell beers at the traditional dai…
Easing a chronic shortage of manpower by bringing in foreign labour is fair enough providing workers are not abused and Hong Kong residents do not have to worry about their jobs. But it appears this may not be the case with the expanded labour importation scheme following reports of hundreds of restaurant workers being allegedly…
What are your plans for the week ahead? Are you bracing for the crowds of mainland tourists the government hopes will descend upon Hong Kong for the Labour Day “golden week” holiday to fill our restaurants and spend in our shops? Last year, about 766,000 people from the mainland visited during the holiday week. The…
A catering sector union has urged the Hong Kong government to regularly review a scheme to import workers to ease long-standing staff shortages and pause it if needed, saying more than 200 locals had reported being fired and replaced by newcomers. The Eating Establishment Employees General Union said on Thursday that it had received a…