Hong Kong migrant domestic worker activists condemn accusations of untimely contract termination. Photo: RTHK
Hong Kong migrant domestic worker activists have called out to put a stop to the accusations of untimely termination of their current contracts to another desirable one, voicing that anti-migrant sentiment in Hong Kong would dispirit them to stay to work in the city.
Chairperson for the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union, Sringatin voiced on Thursday that foreign domestic workers in the city have better choices in terms of places to work other than Hong Kong.
“Hong Kong is not the only place for domestic workers to find a job. There is also competition between Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Malaysia and other countries... If Hong Kong continues [to have] more restrictions on domestic workers, I think many people will leave Hong Kong," she said.
"Please stop [job-hopping] accusations, please stop doing anti-migrant policies, because it's not only stopping migrants from coming to Hong Kong, but it also makes the image of Hong Kong very bad."
The chairperson of Gabriela Hong Kong, Shiela Tebia in her statement pointed out that foreign domestic workers in the city had been singled out for changing employers.
"If [workers] are not content with their working conditions in the company, they can easily send a resignation letter and find another job that gives them better working conditions," she said.
"Why does it become an issue when domestic workers want to have a better working conditions? Why is the migrant workers' community criminalised because of wanting to change employers?"
According to the Labour and Welfare Chief Chris Sun earlier, he said a revised code of practice for employment agencies, aimed at deterring foreign domestic workers from changing employers in the middle of their contracts would be publicised in the second quarter of the year.
The new plans would inform the firms to explain clearly to domestic helpers the requirements to change employers and employment agencies would be banned from providing monetary incentives for workers to quit early.
In the records, the Immigration Department denied around 500 employment visa applications from foreign domestic workers for suspected job-hopping in 2023.
香港外籍家庭傭工活動人士稱“反移民情緒將家庭傭工趕走”
香港外來家政工人活動人士呼籲制止該市居民的行為，他們指責他們過早終止現有合約並更換其他理想的雇主，並表示香港的反移民情緒會打擊他們繼續工作的積極性。
印尼移工聯盟主席斯林金週四表示，除了香港以外，該市的外籍家庭傭工在工作地點方面有更好的選擇。
「香港並不是家事移工尋找工作的唯一地方。 新加坡、香港、加拿大、馬來西亞和其他國家之間也存在競爭……如果香港繼續對家庭傭工實施更多限制，我認為很多人會離開香港，」她說。
「請停止（跳槽）指控，請停止實施反移民政策，因為這不僅阻止了移民來到香港，而且還讓香港的形象變得非常糟糕。”
Shiela Tebia，Gabriela Hong Kong 主席 Shiela Tebia 在聲明中指出，該市的外籍家庭傭工已成為取代雇主的對象。
「如果（員工）對公司的工作條件不滿意，他們可以輕鬆地提出辭職信，然後找到另一份工作條件更好的工作，」她說。
“為什麼當家庭工人想要有更好的工作條件時，這會成為一個問題？為什麼農民工群體會因為想要更換雇主而被定罪？”
據勞工和福利局長克里斯·孫（Chris Sun）早些時候透露，他表示，修訂後的職業介紹所操作守則將於今年第二季度公佈，旨在阻止外籍家庭傭工在合約中途更換雇主。
新計畫將要求公司向家庭傭工明確解釋更換雇主的要求，並且禁止就業機構為工人提前辭職提供金錢誘因。
根據記錄，移民局在2023年拒絕了約500份涉嫌跳槽的外籍家庭傭工的就業簽證申請。
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