A banker accused of indecently assaulting a female subordinate has been acquitted after a Hong Kong magistrate expressed doubts about the woman’s testimony and questioned her agenda of pursuing legal action “at all costs”. Magistrate Minnie Wat Lai-man said on Tuesday that the court should give defendant Alan Lai King-lun, 54, the benefit of the…
One-third of women in Hong Kong have been sexually harassed in the workplace over the past three years but most of them do nothing about it fearing it will affect their job or because they have accepted it as the norm, a survey has found. Lawmaker Elizabeth Quat Pei-fan, whose party jointly carried out the…
A domestic helper has won a HK$180,000 sexual harassment claim against her former Hong Kong employer, a single man who repeatedly asked her for sex despite her refusals. The District Court on Friday ruled that Lam Yui-sang, 63, had created a “hostile and threatening” workplace for Indonesian helper Sri Wahyuni, who started her employment with…
British expat Alan Wells and his wife have been left devastated by Teikyo Hong Kong Kindergarten’s decision to deny their two-year-old physically disabled son the chance to continue his education there on the basis that “he cannot walk”. Wells complained to the Equal Opportunities Commission in October, but the watchdog on Friday said it was…
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A top executive in Hong Kong for insurance firm Manulife has lashed out at his employer for its “clinically dumb” underwriting policies for people with autism, such as his son. Damien Green, chairman of Manulife Financial Asia, slammed the company in a social media post on Tuesday, while members of the neurodiverse community told the…
Hong Kong Paralympic gold medallist Ho Yuen-kei has complained that a restaurant refused to serve her after a staff member said bringing her wheelchair inside would affect other diners. The boccia athlete said on Tuesday that a staff member at Thai restaurant Ayutthaya in Causeway Bay had refused to let her inside on the grounds…
Hong Kong’s equality watchdog is reviewing accusations that a mainland Chinese dumpling shop breached discrimination laws after it posted a hiring notice prioritising female candidates from Guangdong province. The Equal Opportunities Commission said on Wednesday that it was “concerned” about a recruitment notice placed outside the Yuan Ji Yun Jiao dumpling shop in Prince Edward…